Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books

Hookland Fragments is a small book, mostly comprised of a thirty-page lecture and fifteen pages of an A-Z of Hookland Influences, along with some smaller essays.

This short novel is weird in ways in which only M.

Orphans of the Tide is an odd YA novel, concerning the residents of an island City who fear the periodical resurgence of the Enemy who takes over a person to be his Vessel for rebirth.

This is the third of three books retelling H.P.

Ursula K.

Every once in a while, when the modern world seems especially insane, I read another Philip K.

In the wake of the popularity of the first Addams Family television series, which ran from 1964-1966, cartoonist Charles Addams published The Chas.

Fairy tales, by their original oral natures, are often retold, with variations, and they are often reworked with different ideologies involved.

Why I Love Horror, subtitled "Essays on Horror Literature," is a collection of nineteen essays--one by the book's editor Becky Siegel Spratford, the others by various current horror writers, with an introduction by Sadie Hartmann (responsible for a crappy…

This is the Victorian-styled story of a young girl, Faith, who wants to be a naturalist like her reverend father, but she must work in the shadows as she is stymied by being female.

This is an early novel by Catherine Fisher, who is perhaps best known for Incarceron, the first of a series.

A couple of years ago I enjoyed R.J.

In Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan, a short novella published in 1894, Helen Vaughan is the mysterious femme fatale who dies horribly at the end.

Daniel Pinkwater has been writing books for children and young adults for many decades.

I saw a new movie, Clown in a Cornfield.

Jack Zipes is some months shy of 88, He is a renowned scholar of folklore and fairy tales, including critical works as well as translations and anthologies.

The Bone Man is a novelette from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2007, here published as a chapbook with illustrations by Daniel Williams.

The ingredients used to make this novel promise something delectable.

Novelist Andrew Michael Hurley has published what is basically a thirteen story collection, centered around a fictional border town between Yorkshire and Lancashire called Barrowbeck.

This book looked interesting.

The idea of a novel set in and around the late 17th century Paris salon meetings of Madame d'Aulnoy, where modern fairy tales came to life, seems like a good idea.

I liked Clarke's previous novel, Piranesi (I reviewed it here on Jan. 12, 2022), so the idea of a new book by her attracted my attention.

A collection of nine stories by Mark Samuels, who passed away suddenly in December 2023, after this collection had been put together.

Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz have written two screenplays, both unproduced, and both now published by Chiroptera Press.

This is the definitive book on the zany eccentric London record label Stiff Records, which was founded in 1976 and lasted through 1986, promoting punk, ska, jazzy rock, the new wave, and traditional rock.