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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Houses of the Dead – Chris Priestley’s The Dead of Winter
Chris Priestley‘s The Dead of Winter is a haunting and deeply disturbing ghost story. His previous series, the three volumes of the the ‘Tales of Terror’, were haunting when the protagonist turned out to be a child’s guardian failing in … Continue reading
The carnival of realities in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s children’s books
The carnivalesque, a theory of folk humour developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, is a time of collapse and overturning of conventional boundaries and norms of the world. It is essentially a licensed time of revelry and excitement which the ruling classes … Continue reading
A glamoured drawing room – Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shade of Milk and Honey
In Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal revisits the Fantasy of Manners sub-genre and comes back to its roots in Jane Austen’s work from Steven Brust and Emma Bull’s very much Sturm und Drang Freedom and Necessity. In … Continue reading