Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris – review
Have you read the latest in Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries? I’ll give you a hint, HBO calls them True Blood, and if you’re a fan of the show you’ve got to give the books a try. Yes, yes, I’m a big fan of the show, but the books are better and more cleverly done. Isn’t that always [...]
Sookie Stackhouse – True Blood – Coming to End?
Think it can be a challenge keeping up to date on all the new episodes of True Blood? Is being a Fangbanger taking over your life? Well, try being the author of the long line of exciting books the HBO series is based upon. Charlaine Harris has that honor. Her novel, “Dead Reckoning,” the 11th [...]
Unusual Suspects – edited by Dana Stabenow – review
I’m taking a page from Jay’s book and re-running some old reviews from my now-defunct personal review blog. For the most part they are unchanged in content, except for removing things that no longer apply and actual editorial scouring…no, not even my prose is immune. Unusual Suspects is a short story collection following up 2006′s [...]
SYNERGY – Childhood Scary Stories
Synergy is back! This is the fourth installment of the feature, and the first under my dictatorship as BSC’s editrix. If you haven’t seen this column before, the basic idea is that we put the same question to a variety of professionals (and sometimes amateurs) who interest us to create a plateful of amuse bouche interviews. This time around we took the question straight to some of the hottest names in horror, comics, urban fantasy, and more.
The question? What was your favorite scary story as a kid? The answer could be anything from an urban legend to “vampires” to a specific book or movie or comic. Anything at all…as long as it was something especially striking to you….
Respondents range from bestselling writers like Charlaine Harris and Carrie Vaughn, to grand masters like Joe R. Lansdale and Brian Lumley, to noir/crime writers like Jimmy Palmiotti and Charlie Huston, and more. If you missed our previous installments of Synergy, go check them out.
If you’ve already read those, take the jump and read our latest!
Strange Brew edited by P. N. Elrod review
Witches, vampires and shapechangers, oh my! Follow me as I review the short stories included in Strange Brew.
More after the jump…
Book Review – Wolfsbane & Mistletoe
Editors: Charlaine Harris, Toni L. P. Kelner Publisher: Ace Binding: Hardcover Publish Date: October 2008 Normally when I read a collection of short stories, I either wince through a great deal of them to get to the good stuff or pass over many of them completely. However, I was pleasantly surprised upon picking up Wolfsbane [...]
Book Review – Grave Surprise
Author: Charlaine Harris Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2006 The story concept is that Harper Connelly can sense the dead, discern their names and the cause of death. It’s a fascinating premise. Harper can’t see who causes the death, but she can tell if it was by poison, heart attack, blade, gun, [...]
Book Review – All Together Dead
Author: Charlaine Harris Publisher: Penguin Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2007 All Together Dead is the seventh book in the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris. The series’ main character, Sookie Stackhouse, is not a vampire herself but associates with them on occasion. Sookie is a telepath and in this capacity has worked for the vampires [...]
