The Door to Lost Pages – Claude Lalumière
Claude Lalumière’s beautiful Door to Lost Pages harkens back to that structured chaos, to the kind of story that begged to be told, demanded to be told, even before …
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Pretty Little Dead Things – Gary McMahon
Okay, after reading the following sentence, promise you’ll stick around and keep reading: Pretty Little Dead Things is about a man who can see and communicate with the dead. …
A Dark Matter – Peter Straub
Some forty years ago, Lee Halwell’s best friends, including his then girlfriend, also named Lee but nicknamed The Eel, joined up with a self-proclaimed spiritualist named Spencer Mallon. Mallon …
The Terror – Dan Simmons
In 1845, Sir John Franklin departed England as captain of Erebus and leader of an exploratory expedition to forge a path through the last unnavigated portion of the Northwest …
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
When I tell people about Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, they usually give me a sceptical look, sometimes accompanied by a roll of the eyes or even a sneer. It …