The Silver Skull by Mark Chadbourn – review

In its better moments, The Silver Skull reminds me of Lynch’s Locke Lamora or Howard’s Solomon Kane. Swyfte and his cohorts battle a vicious array of cut-throats, Spanish spies, and unholy opponents over land and sea in a storm of shifting allegiances that brings both England and her defenders to the brink of destruction.
Full review after the jump…
BSC Beat Interview – Talking Hellboy with Mark Chadbourn

The return of the BSC Beat, our 10-question, topic specific, interview format, and today we are talking Hellboy with Mark Chadbourn. Not Mignola? Nah, we are talking to Chadbourn because he has a Hellboy novel, The Ice Wolves, on tap. Chadbourn is an award winning Fantasy author of such novels as can be found in The Kingdom of the Serpent series- Jack of Ravens, The Burning Man and Destroyer of Worlds – as well as the “mytho-fantasy” trilogies The Age of Misrule and The Dark Age. Below find out where Chadbourn thinks Hellboy’s mythic lineage stems from & who he’s like to see write a Hellboy novel!
Read it after the jump…
Book Review – Darkest Hour by Mark Chadbourn
I recently reviewed World’s End, the first installment of Mark Chadbourn’s Age of Misrule trilogy. This is a review of the second book in that series Darkest Hour, published by PYR.
Read the review after the break . . .
Book Review – World’s End by Mark Chadbourn
World’s End by Mark Chadbourn is the first book in the Age of Misrule trilogy. The book was first published in the UK in 1999 but now Pyr is releasing all three in with about a month between them for the American market….
Synergy – The Love (stories) of our Lives?

Back with our second edition of Synergy, and I am just delighted with the group that we’ve assembled to participate this month! We have an actress (Brea Grant from Heroes!), editors and writers (from bestselling, critically acclaimed, and all around cool peeps) like Mark Chadbourn, Eileen Gunn, Lane Robins, Paul Malmont, Jim C. Hines, David J.Williams, Gregory Frost, Bonnie Burton (Star Wars in the house!), Carrie Vaughn, Marie Brennan, and Jeri Smith-Ready who join some of our regular contributors here at BSC in sharing our single favorite romances and love stories in fiction!
I hope you all enjoy!










