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A new version of a classic short story from Neil Gaiman

Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman

November 16, 2019 by MarkAbaddon Leave a Comment

I admit it, I am a Neil Gaiman fanboy. There are two shelves in my library devoted to his works and this short story, Snow Glass, Apples, sits among the greatest pieces he has created. So what is it about? Take the story of Snow White, keep all of the elements of the story we are familiar with (the stepmother, the dwarves, the stepmother’s attempt to kill Snow White, the Forest, etc.), then invert some, distort others and create a whole new perspective on a story that most of us take for granted at this point. Snow, Glass, Apples is […]

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11/16/2019 | MarkAbaddon's CBR11 Review No: 18 |
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| Tags: feminism, myth, Neil Gaiman, Snow White, stepmother, vampire, witches | Category: Fantasy, Graphic Novel/Comic, Horror | 0 Comments

Dreadful in name only

Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

June 22, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Yay for new kinda favorite series! The thing for me that distinguishes a favorite from something enjoyable is how re-readable a book is. While I was waiting for the second book to get to my mailbox, I reread the first, and it was as much fun as the first time. After reading Dreadful Company (book 2), I started rereading it about a week later. Still fun. Dreadful Company features many of the same characters from the first novel including Dr. Greta Helsing, physician to things that go bump in the night, Ruthven the vampire, Varney the vampyre (there’s a technical […]

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6/22/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No: 46 |
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| Tags: #fantasy, demon, dr greta helsing, dreadful company, ghosts, Lord Ruthven, mystery, supernatural adventure, vampire, vampyre, Varney, Vivian Shaw, werewolf | Category: Fantasy | 0 Comments

Sorely Lacking Keanu Reeves. One Star.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

January 7, 2019 by Zirza 1 Comment

The year is 1897 and Bram Stoker is a bored businessmen who boosts his income by writing pulpy novels. The most famous of these, simply titled Dracula, was not an immediate hit, but would turn out to define Stoker’s legacy. This isn’t entirely undeserved, but outside of its snug historical pocket the novel doesn’t come across all that well. The story is well-known to nearly everyone, and I was quite surprised at how closely, at first, it follows the 1993 movie. And yet this film, as well as other films before and after it, have chosen to add details or […]

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1/7/2019 | Zirza's CBR11 Review No: 3 |
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| Tags: bram stoker, classic, Dracula, gothic, horror, vampire, Victorian | Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery | 1 Comment

Kill Your Darlings

All Souls Trilogy: A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

January 28, 2018 by Ellesfena 4 Comments

Deborah Harkness knows a lot about a lot of things. Her depth and breadth of knowledge on things ranging from wine to Elizabethan England to brewing tea is certainly impressive, but the amount of detail crammed into these books sure does make for some slow going. The All Souls Trilogy is about a world in which witches, vampires, and daemons (in this case, daemons are humans who are more than us regular folk–musical prodigies, artistic savants, financial wizards, scientific geniuses–or sometimes drug addicts or mentally ill) exist and walk among us. Humans don’t know about them. Trying to write a […]

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1/28/2018 | Post by Ellesfena
| Tags: A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness, Elizabethan, romance, vampire, witch | Category: Fantasy, Fiction | 4 Comments

You’ll write many stories, but every one will be to some greater or lesser degree about this story.

Song of Susannah by Stephen King

July 24, 2017 by borisanne 1 Comment

I am, in all honesty and with true sincerity, starting to question reality. Remember when I read The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower #2) and complained that King needs an editor because he shouldn’t be referring to his own work (the film version of The Shining) as content experienced by new characters in this totally different world? And then I read Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower #4) and I was like, “TUBE NECK HOW DARE YOU?!” but then totally turned around on it, and decided to buy the whole kit and kaboodle, because his pitch turned out to be […]

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7/24/2017 | Post by borisanne
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| Tags: 9/11, ake ake, beam, bear, billy bumbler, black 13, black thirteen, Dark Tower, deschain, detta, dinh, dixie pig, donald callahan, eddie, fedick, Gilead, jake, john chambers, john collum, KA, ka-tet, King, low men, maine, manni, mia, north central positronics, odetta, oy, pere callahan, randall flagg, richard sayre, roland, sköldpadda, sombra corporation, Stephen King, susannah, tet corporation, the beam, Turtle, turtleback lane, vampire, walk-ins, world trade center | Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction | 1 Comment

First the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.

Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

July 16, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

Homestretch on Ye Olde Darke Towere Marathone! I’m actually starting to be sad that there are only two left plus the movie. And there had better be whole bunch of those, too, is what I’m saying, do ya. If I’m being honest, I think that Stephen King didn’t start leaning into the conceit of this series until about the time that I went all in, and that’s probably the reason I was finally able to invest fully. The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes that the first few books in the series really were still finding their […]

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| Tags: 'salem's lot, ake ake, billy bumber, callahan, cbr9, chap, dark thirteen, Dark Tower, door, dr doom, eddie, Gunslinger, Harry Potter, hidden highways, jake, King, mia, midtown east, multiverse, new york, nineteen, nineteen ninety nine, ninety nine, oy, quest, roland, science fiction, star wars, Stephen King, susannah, vampire, vampires, wolves | Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction | 0 Comments

The original vampire-ess

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

March 29, 2017 by LadyStardust Leave a Comment

Bram Stoker may have been the first to perfect the literary vampire, but he was certainly not the first to creep people out with a good monster. Carmilla was here first (by over 20 years), and she is perfectly frightening herself. After a carriage crashes near their remote forest estate, our narrator Laura and her father agree to take in a young woman as their guest while her mother travels on and promises to return for her. Not too surprisingly, young girls in the nearby village start dying of a mysterious ailment following a vivid nightmare of a monster in their […]

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3/29/2017 | Post by LadyStardust
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| Tags: classic horror, Fiction, horror, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, vampire | Category: Fiction, Horror | 0 Comments

A bit too much of the wrong brother

The Brothers Cabal by Jonathan L Howard

January 16, 2017 by WistfulCynic 2 Comments

This is the fourth book in the Johannes Cabal series, and the only one that uses its main character sparingly. I loved the first three Cabal novels, particularly Johannes Cabal the Detective, which is the second one. I also love the handful of Cabal short stories, particularly Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day, the first Cabal story and a brilliant introduction to a brilliant character. Johannes Cabal is a German-born man who was raised from middle childhood in England. He is a necromancer ‘of some little infamy’, a career he undertook at the age of 18 when the girl he loved accidentally […]

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