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Three books this month. The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (Poisoned Pen Press, 2021) I’ve been wanting to read The King in Yellow ev...

  “Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work of...

I’m a big fan of Karl Edward Wagner’s sword and sorcery stories about Kane the Eternal Wanderer and I’ve been looking forward to reading som...

Four books this month. Two fiction and two non-fiction. Imaro by George Saunders (Night Shade Books, 2006)  Imaro is a sword and sorcery ad...

“For my money, when it comes to literary modes, short fiction ranks as first among equals. From London’s “To Build a Fire,” and Blackwood’s ...