FIVE FOR FRIDAY: Five Questions for J.R. Campbell!

Welcome to the end of another week, and another FIVE FOR FRIDAY interview! This week I welcome J.R. Campbell to the table, hot on the heels of two recent collections of paranormal Sherlock Holmes stories; GASLIGHT GHOULS: UNEASY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, MONSTERS, AND MADMEN (co-edited with Charles Prepolec) and his own single-author collection, IMPROBABLE REMAINS. Hit the Read More button to check it out!

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FIVE FOR FRIDAY: Five Questions for Steve Stred!

Welcome to the end of another week, and the start of something new here! FIVE FOR FRIDAY is a new weekly feature I’ll be running, with posts loosely based on the number five. One manifestation of this will be five-question interviews with fellow creatives, and to kick things off I’d like to welcome Steve Stred to the stage! Steve wears many hats – writer, reviewer, interviewer, Type O Negative – and his latest book CHURN THE SOIL is available, well, today. Hit READ MORE to check out Five for Friday: Five Questions for Steve Stred!

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REVIEW: THE REVENANT EXPRESS, by George Mann

I’ve long enjoyed George Mann’s ongoing Newbury & Hobbes series, but I don’t know what the heck happened here. With a six-year gap between the previous title (THE EXECUTIONER’S HEART) and this book being ridiculously priced when it finally did come out ($35CDN for a slim 220-page hardcover) I ended up sleeping on THE REVENANT EXPRESS until now. I probably could’ve done with hitting the snooze button another time or three before cracking into it.

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