Today for Armchair BEA, the topic is Novellas & Short Stories. We’re giving some love to those delightful small bites of fiction that can be just as powerful as a long novel. I want to highlight a few short story anthologies that I’ve read recently and loved. Because I love genre fiction, all these collections […]
Yesterday I introduced you to Operation Fourth Story, Apex Magazine’s official digital magazine drive. And today, I have an interview with Managing Editor Cameron Salisbury. Please give Cameron a warm welcome! Hi Cameron, and welcome to the blog. I’m thrilled to have you visiting today! Hello! This is my first interview as an Apex editor, […]
I’m super happy and excited to be part of the Apex Operation Fourth Story Digital Subscription Drive from Apex Magazine! (Wow, I know that’s a mouthful…) If you’ve never heard of Apex Magazine or Apex Books, now is your chance to catch up! Apex Magazine is a monthly digital magazine featuring short fiction from some of […]
The Book of Apex: Volume 4 of Apex Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas Genre: Adult Mixed Genre Short Story Collection Publisher: Apex Publications Release date: October 24 2013 Source: e-book from publisher Pages: 368 In a word: A strong collection of weird, gory, scary, creepy and just plain strange stories that will satisfy any […]
I’m thrilled to welcome Douglas F. Warrick to the blog today, author of Plow the Bones, which I recently reviewed here. This amazing collection of stories is the first book in the Apex Voices series, which highlights up-and-coming writers of genre fiction. Books, Bones & Buffy: First off, welcome to Books, Bones & Buffy! I […]
Plow the Bones by Douglas F. Warrick Genre: Adult Speculative/Horror Short Stories Publisher: Apex Book Company Release date: May 3 2013 Source: e-ARC from publisher Pages: 228 In a word: hallucinatory, disturbing & unsettling stories, carefully crafted with glimmers of humanity. They have crafted sharp teeth for themselves from the tiny crystal bones of their […]
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell Genre: Adult Speculative Short Stories Publisher: Knopf Release date: February 12 2013 Source: eARC from publisher Pages: 256 In a word: strange, unearthly, jaw-dropping, and absurd A friend of mine once tried to describe Cirque du Soleil to me (before I had seen it for myself), and […]
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa; Translated by Stephen Snyder Genre: Adult Dark Short Stories Publisher: Picador Release date: January 29 2013 Source: Finished copy from publisher Pages: 162 In a word: Disturbing, unexpected, shocking and heartbreaking. This is the second remarkable short story collection I’ve read this year, and I’m thrilled to review Revenge by the very […]
The Miniature Wife and Other Stories by Manuel Gonzales Genre: Adult Speculative Short Stories Publisher: Riverhead Books Release Date: January 10 2013 Pages: 304 I just finished reading the stories in this amazing collection several hours ago, and they are still haunting me, tickling at the edges of my brain like the unholy tongue of […]
Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Although I wasn’t planning on participating this week, along came this book: Shadow Show is coming out July 17th from William Morrow Paperbacks. It contains short stories by some big name fantasy and horror writers, including Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Neil Gaiman, Alice Hoffman…wait a minute, […]