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The Clock is Plasticking
A… Non-Horrific?* Earth Day to you all (*I do not wish misfortune upon you and yet a day of calling for needed improvement is not a thing of happiness either). In line with this year’s theme of Planet vs Plastic, I gift to you a brief TED talk on the issues of plastic waste:
Sadly, despite the talk being a few years old, the issues remain.
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Of Stars & Smoke: Poems for the Dark Wane of the Year by Susan Rooke
Displaying the joyful seriousness of language and the beauty of decay, Rooke provides a series of intermeshing and conflicting images of darker months, evoking without wallowing in the gothic.
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All These Moments
Drifts of pastel wind
Tawdry rock dressed for display
Absent trees alive
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The Hidden Guardian by J.D.L. Rosell
Rosell blends politics that is true of any time and place with engaging fantasy details, presenting a world where the magical and social have the same epic scale.
This is the third volume in Rosell’s Rangers of the Titan Wilds series. Those wishing not to uncover the secrets of the past should turn back.
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Magic Spell
Betwixt some interesting pieces on intersectional faith and society, Yvonne Aburrow has started sharing Pagan Wordles. Being slightly fond of words, I’ve found them pleasingly diverting but also thought-provoking because the focus on a single area makes them harder.
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Crimson King by Morgan Quaid
Quaid leans into both the noir tropes in urban fantasy and the terrifying otherness of ancient myths about fairies and other beings, creating a novel that is likely to please those who like their magical thrillers closer to Lovecraft than love story.
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Offencing Off Areas
There are statements we would like to hear more of, such as “You deserve a bonus”, and those we would like not to hear at all, such as “You deserve to have your legs broken”; and for each of us the line between—where mere indifference to a statement changes into a desire it not be spoken—is something we understand. However, when it comes to whether a statement should be legally proscribed, the…
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Into the Bush by J. Manfred Weichsel
Weichsel blends pulp action with gross humour and harsh satire, creating a tale that is both an embodiment of classic adventure tales and a subversion of everything they are held up as representing.
This is the second book of “The Action Girls in…” series. Possible spoilers ahead.
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Believing Is Not Seeing
Unless more notes are discovered (or someone mounts an expedition that discovers the ruins of the Elder One’s city), we might never know what Danforth saw as the plane departed the ruins toward the end of Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. However, I am uncertain that the obvious answer of it being the amorphous shoggoth boiling forth from below is the true one.
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Primordial World: Book 5 by Baileigh Higgins
Higgins combines the natural dangers of the prehistoric world with the selfishness and cruelty that can taint human interaction, creating a book that blends fast-paced action with depth of character.
Note: while the author is blessed with a spiffing surname we are unrelated.
This novel is the fifth in Higgins’ Primordial World series. Possible spoilers for the previous volumes ahead.
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Futureshlock
Rick Wayne, a fine crafter of weird worlds, published a Substack post yesterday about how the 2020’s aren’t the cyberpunk future that was predicted and the course of human progress shows the future isn’t reliably what we expect. It’s not an academically rigorous proof—which most readers might see as an advantage—but it is an engagingly supported perspective on human expectation. What especially…
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Review: DREVO Tyrfing v2 TKL Keyboard
As someone asked about my mechanical keyboard during a voice chat a little while ago, I decided to deviate from my usual book reviews to do a quick keyboard review of my DREVO Tyrfing.
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Starving Isn't Manly
Having just come out of the far side of some house renovation, my mind has been turned recently toward life skills—especially the one’s considered typically masculine. Some of the work (such as injecting damp-course) is clearly specialist work, but other parts fall within the DIY space; so, I greatly enjoyed knowing enough about how to make an informed decision about doing it myself or paying a…
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They Call Her Monster by Jordan Elizabeth
Elizabeth creates an engaging variation on the trope of werewolf families living unnoticed among humans, blended with a classic crime noir plot and a troubled hero.
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Not With a Frown But a Wassail
This coming Thursday is the Festival of Borrowed, a recognition of the connectedness of humans to the wider world and its future. Yvonne Aburrow, who created it, sees it as a reminder—which it is—but I see the celebration.
Aburrow sets out some things one might do if one wishes to participate, some more expansive than others. And, in the way of synchronicity, I happened to receive an email about…
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The Witch’s Lens by Luanne G. Smith
Smith returns to the source of modern vampire myths, creating a supernatural thriller that offers a rich world and characters rather than relying on subtle differences from other modern horror and urban fantasy for its charm.
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#horror#Luanne G. Smith#non-western mythology#supernatural thriller#The Order of the Seven Stars#The Witch’s Lens#urban fantasy#vampire
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Sorry About the Racket
Dearest Reader,
Since my last communication, I have stopped at the small village of Yew Taube, wherein my search for local legends uncovered fragments of what could be a lost Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera. I transcribe below the parts that survive and shall haste to advise should on of the various leads for a complete copy prove true.
While the libretto has the macabre jollity of Gilbert’s…
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