I’ve just come across this great version of Alice in Wonderland called A Walk through Wonderland which the Duirwaigh Gallery are presenting over the month of November. It has art by a range of folk including Brian Froud and Terri WIndling. I got here from a link on BoingBoing to Marina Bychkova’s site, Enchanted Doll. [...]
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Kelly Link about her new collection, Pretty Monsters , which has just shot to the top of my to get in the next few days. It sounds like the awesome Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan, which I’m re-reading and will be raving about soon.
There’s something magical not only in the [...]
Unwind is a book which needs to be read along with Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother as a salutary reminder of what we are doing to children in our society. Reminiscent of Michael Marshal Smith’s Spares, Shusterman portrays a society where unwanted children can be kept alive but as disposable parts for other people. Unwinding [...]
Erik Davis has a great essay on Clark Ashton Smith which delves into the Hashish Eater. Going into the poem, he muses on the hallucinatory nature of the language and how Smith lost himself in it. At one point he appears to be approaching the TS Eliot use of imagery to conjure up a world [...]
In a world that has changed in the last seven years from one which sallowly loved democracy, complacent in the knowledge that we could vote into a world in which democracy and its underlying principles have been betrayed in a new Cold War, Little Brother is a timely update to Orwell’s 1984. Written with Cory’s [...]
Over at the New York Times, Terrence Rafferty has a piece on women writing horror, looking at a vairety of novelists including Elizabeth Hand. Short and to the point, he does muse on the nature of horror to terrify the reader and this is what paranormal romance, such as Stephanie Meyer and Laurell Hamilton, doesn’t [...]
Hippy Bathday to Wind in the Willows and Paddington Bear… Wind in the Willows was 100 years on October 8th (good reminder by the BBC) where they muse on what might happen to Toad and so on in the current state of Britain. Everyone’s favourite Michael Bond character was fifty on October 13th (Indie article [...]