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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Thomas Mullen and his latest novel, Blind Spots

    Interview With an Author: Thomas Mullen

    Thomas Mullen is the internationally acclaimed author of six previous novels; The Last Town on Earth, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, The Revisionists, Darktown, Lightning Men, and Midnight…

  • Author Anthony McCarten and his latest novel, Going Zero

    Interview With an Author: Anthony McCarten

    Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand-born screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and journalist. His screen credits include The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour, The Two Popes, Bohemian Rhapsody, and the…

  • Author Peter S. Beagle and his two collections of short fiction, The Essential Peter S. Beagle Volumes 1 & 2

    Interview With an Author: Peter S. Beagle

    Peter Soyer Beagle is the internationally bestselling and much-beloved author of numerous classic fantasy novels and collections, including The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, The Line Between, Sleight of Hand…

  • Author Moses Ose Utomi and his latest novel, The Lies of the Ajungo

    Interview With an Author: Moses Ose Utomi

    Moses Ose Utomi is a Nigerian-American fantasy writer and nomad currently based out of Honolulu, Hawaii. He has an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and short fiction publications in Fireside…

  • Author Liz Hyder and her her novel, The Gifts

    Interview With an Author: Liz Hyder

    Liz Hyder is a writer, creative workshop leader, and freelance arts PR consultant. She is the winner of The Bridge Award/Moniack Mhor's Emerging Writer Award. Bearmouth, her debut novel for young…

  • Author Johnny Compton and his debut novel, The Spite House

    Interview With an Author: Johnny Compton

    Johnny Compton’s (he/him) short stories have appeared in Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast and many other markets. He is an HWA member and creator and host of the podcast Healthy Fears…

  • The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

    Interview With an Author: KJ Charles

    KJ Charles spent twenty years as an editor in British publishing before fleeing the scene to become a full-time historical romance novelist. She has written over twenty-five novels since then, and her…

  • Author Emilia Hart and her debut novel, Weyward

    Interview With an Author: Emilia Hart

    Emilia Hart grew up in Australia and studied English Literature at university before training as a lawyer. She lives in London. Weyward, her debut, was highly commended by the Caledonia First Novel…

  • C.L. Polk and their book Even Though I Knew the End

    Interview With an Author: C.L. Polk

    C.L. Polk (they/them) wrote the Hugo-nominated series The Kingston Cycle, including the WFA winning Witchmark. The Midnight Bargain was a Canada Reads, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, and WFA finalist. They…

  • Author Leigh Bardugo and her latest novel, Hell Bent

    Interview With an Author: Leigh Bardugo

    Leigh Bardugo is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, The…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Lost Story

    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    15년 전, 제레미와 랄프는 학년말 현장 학습으로 웨스트버지니아 주 레드 크로우 주립 삼림공원에 갔다가 사라졌습니다. 한순간 그곳에 있었는데, 어느새 사라져 버렸습니다. 숲을 수색했지만, 소년들의 흔적은 끝내 찾지 못했습니다. 그리고…
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    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    아서 에드워즈는 영국 북부의 작은 마을 노스브리지에서 평생을 살았습니다. 그는 그곳에서 자랐고, 아내 매들린을 만나 결혼했습니다. 노스브리지는 매들린과 아서가 두 자녀 엘리자베스와 패트릭을 키운 곳이기도 합니다. 대부분의 작은 마을이 그렇듯, 그의 삶 또한...
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    Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    • By: Hughes, Emily C.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    공포. 좋아하는 사람도 있고, 싫어하는 사람도 있죠! 대체로 사람들은 이 장르에 대해 강한 감정을 가지고 있으며, 호불호가 극명하게 갈립니다. 아이러니하게도, 공포라는 장르 자체를 '두려워하는' 사람들도 있습니다. 네, 정말 공포 장르를 두려워하는 거죠.
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    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    마조리 맥카운의 소설 『파이널 컷』의 마지막 부분에서 독자들은 조이 제섭이 거액의 슈퍼히어로 영화 촬영장에서 조감독 코트니 리슬을 살해한 범인의 정체를 밝혀낸 것을 보게 됩니다. 그녀는 범인이 자신을 살해하려던 시도에서 살아남았는데…
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    이븐은 전문 킬러입니다. 여기서 중요한 것은 "전문"이라는 단어에 있습니다. 그녀는 기억이 지워진 채 되살아난 킬러로, 그녀에게 두 번째 "삶"의 기회를 준 암살단 여두목을 섬기고 있습니다. 그녀는 효율적이고 신중하며, (살인이라는 용어 자체가...) 기꺼이 처치합니다.
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    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
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    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
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    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...