“Freedom is the best thing” read the caption next to the first moomin, drawn as philosopher Immanuel Kant, by artist and writer Tove Jansson. While her best-known creations are adorable, t...Read More
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood is a re-telling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project. I was keen to read it as I have a soft spot for a revenge tale, and vengeance i...Read More
I recently devoured (pun intended) Alma Katsu’s The Hunger, which is a fictional account of the Donner wagon party trying to reach California from Illinois in 1846. For those unfamiliar with the...Read More
I am willing to bet that most people outside of Norway has not heard about Jens Bjørneboe. It is a shame, because Bjørneboe was a fantastic writer. He was controversial and provocative, with a bruta...Read More
Horror novels are a mixed bunch, and while I tend to enjoy the majority of the ones I read, sometimes you come across that one book that makes you sleep with the lights on. That book that forces you t...Read More
The war is not over… Below is a short goodreads review of Empire’s End, the final book of the official Star Wars Aftermath trilogy by Chuck Wendig. The books are not required reading befor...Read More
In the Tall Grass is a short novella published as a two-parter in Esquire, later released as an ebook. It is a collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill, both of which know how to spin a scary t...Read More
I have read some of Lovecraft’s work – ‘The Shunned House’ and ‘The Rats in the Walls’ are examples of stories I liked – but I have overall been less convince...Read More
A brief summary of some of the prime examples of the genre. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Encouraging passivity and egotism with a side order of pleasant distractions, Huxley’s dystopia ...Read More