Children go missing: the latest crime fiction reviewed
Hot on the heels of The Stranger, the Netflix series based on his novel but transplanted to the UK, Harlan…
A paranormal romance that seems to go nowhere: NVK, by Temple Drake, reviewed
NVK, which is the IATA (International Air Transport Association) code for Narvik’s old airport, is in this instance Naemi Vieno…
Our appetite for ‘folk horror’ appears to be insatiable
This eerie, shortish book apparently had an earlier outing this year, when it purported to be a reissue of a…
Creatures of the night: why do we find them irresistible?
When it was recently announced that Robert Pattinson, who played the vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight films, had secured…
City of dreadful dusk
Fantastic fiction loves contrasts made explicit: Eloi and Morlocks, orcs and elves, and above all humans battling vampires, Martians or…
Not a barrel of laughs: a history of hogsheads, kegs and puncheons
Few people, perhaps, will immediately seize on this title as just the thing for a relative’s Christmas, even if their…
