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Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

October 3, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: After a horrific home invasion kills their father, the Locke family retreats to their ancestral home across the country: Lovecraft, MA. But the past has not let them go, in more ways than one, and Key House turns out to be full of secrets of its own… The Review: I’m on record as being an immense fan of Joe Hill. He’s got a bogglingly huge imagination, an equally big heart, and a pen that can somehow capture […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Horror • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Gabriel Rodriguez, Graphic Novel, Horror, Joe Hill, Locke and Key, review, Reviews, Supernatural, Welcome to Lovecraft

The Fireman

June 3, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: A new plague has begun to decimate humanity. Colloquially known as “Dragonscale”, it creates hypnotically beautiful black & gold marks on skin… before causing its carrier to burst into flame. When Harper Grayson, a nurse, shows the first skins of the ‘scale, her husband wants them to commit suicide – but she’s pregnant and committed to having the child. As civilization crumbles over the next nine months, she will fight to survive – and The Fireman, a figure […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: Apocalypse, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Horror, Joe Hill, Literature, Reviews, Speculative, The Fireman

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

January 27, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: From a trip to Neil Gaiman’s London Below to a compendium of the ogres of East Africa, from a scientist racing to his daughter before a black hole consumes the Earth to a man attempting to clone his wife, this first installment of the latest Best American series compiles 20 of the best science fiction & fantasy tales of the last year. The Review: It’s astounding to me that this past year was the first with a […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi, Short Stories • Tags: A. Merc Rustad, Adam-Troy Castro, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Best American, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best American Series, Best American SFF, Best American Short Stories, Carmen Maria Machado, Cat Rambo, Daniel H. Wilson, Fantasy, Jess Row, Jo walton, Joe Hill, John Joseph Adams, Karen Russell, Kelly Link, Kelly Sandoval, Nathan Ballingrud, Neil Gaiman, Sam J. Miller, Science Fiction, Seanan McGuire, Short Stories, Sofia Samatar, Susan Palwick, T.C. Boyle, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, Theodora Goss

2013 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2013 by Drew

Well hello, dear readers. Amazingly, we’ve come to the end of another year – our fourth, here at Raging Biblioholism. Can you believe it? 2014 is upon us – who’d’ve ever imagined it? But, before the year turns over and starts anew, it’s time to take a quick look back on the year that’s passed. We successfully expanded the content of the blog into editorials and features and recaps – all of which will continue to expand in our fifth […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: 2013, 2014, Bad Writing, Book Reviews, Books, Chris F. Holm, Christmas, Douglas Rushkoff, Eric Smith, Favorites, Features, Fiction, FSG Originals, Good Writing, Harper, Joe Hill, Kevin Barry, Literature, Marisha Pessl, New Year's, Non-Fiction, Not Favorites, Quirk Books, Reviews, TNBBC, year in review

Shadow Show

October 21, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: A collection of stories inspired by and written for perhaps the greatest of fantastical forefathers, Ray Bradbury. Some set in the future, some in the past – some completely magical, others holding only the smallest seedling of magic… but all deeply indebted to Ray’s exceptional legacy. As he calls it in his foreword, it’s a Second Homecoming – his children, come home to the October Country to pay homage to their passing king. The Review: I don’t tend […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Short Stories • Tags: A Tribute to Ray Bradbury, A Visit to Octo, Alice Hoffman, Audrey Niffenegger, Charles Yu, Dan Chaon, Dave Eggers, Fantasy, Fiction, Harlan Ellison, Horror, Joe Hill, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Mort Castle, Mystery, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller, Sci-Fi, Shadow Show, Short Stories

Doctor Sleep

October 16, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: In 1977, The Overlook Hotel burned to the ground. The caretaker, Jack Torrance, died but his wife and son managed to escape the blaze – although whether they ever truly escaped what happened there is up for debate. Young Danny, now Dan, has turned to drinking to dull his shine – but right around the time he decides to get clean, a young girl named Abra is born. Abra’s shine is infinitely more powerful than Dan’s and […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Danny Torrance, Doctor Sleep, Fiction, Horror, Joe Hill, Literature, NOS4A2, Stephen King, The Overlook Hotel, The Shining, The True Knot

NOS4A2

March 9, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Victoria McQueen is eight years old when she first discovers “The Shorter Way” – an old rickety bridge that, when she crosses it on her bike, can take her instantly to wherever she needs to be. Several years later, when she crosses paths with Charlie Manx – a vampiric maniac who kidnaps children to a place called Christmasland – she barely escapes with her life. Now, in the present, Manx is back and gunning for Vic’s own […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, Fiction, Horror, Joe Hill, Literature, NOS4A2, NOS4R2, William Morrow

Horns

November 6, 2010 by Drew

I read Joe Hill’s first book, Heart-Shaped Box, on the plane back from Chicago the summer after my sophomore year of college. I was half in afterglow, half teary from parting – and not at all looking forward to getting back to work. I had finished the books I’d brought with me and needed something, so I picked this up at the airport kiosk. I’d heard good things, it looked pretty interesting… Turns out Mr. Hill is Stephen King’s son […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror • Tags: Fiction, Halloween, Horns, Horror, Joe Hill, The Biblioracle

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