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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Kelli Estes and her latest novel, Today We Go Home

    Interview With an Author: Kelli Estes

    Kelli Estes lived in the deserts of eastern Washington state and Arizona before settling in the Seattle area, which she loves so much she plans to forever live near the water. She’s passionate about…

  • Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Violet

    Interview With an Author: Scott Thomas

    Scott Thomas’ debut novel, Kill Creek, is a classic “haunted house” updated for the 21st Century. It is also a love letter to the horror genre, its authors and readers. Now Thomas is back with his…

  • Shaun Hamill and his first novel, A Cosmology of Monsters

    Interview With an Author: Shaun Hamill

    Shaun Hamill is a native of Arlington, Texas. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in the dark woods of Alabama with his wife, his in-laws, and his dog. A Cosmology of Monsters is…

  • Jennifer Giesbrecht and her first book, The Monster of Elendhaven

    Interview With an Author: Jennifer Giesbrecht

    Jennifer Giesbrecht is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia where she earned an undergraduate degree in history, spent her formative years as a professional street performer, and developed a deep and…

  • Rhys Thomas and his new novel, The Secret Life of Sam Holloway

    Interview With an Author: Rhys Thomas

    Rhys Thomas is the author of The Suicide Club and On the Third Day. He lives in Cardiff, Wales, with his partner and three cats. His new novel is The Secret Life of Sam Holloway and he recently agreed…

  • Sarah David-Goff and her debut novel, Last Ones Left Alive

    Interview With an Author: Sarah Davis Goff

    Sarah Davis-Goff was born and lives in Dublin. Her writing has been published in the Irish Times, the Guardian and LitHub. Last Ones Left Alive is her debut novel and she recently agreed to talk about…

  • Dahlia Adler and her book His Hideous Heart

    Interview With an Author: Dahlia Adler

    Dahlia Adler is an associate editor of mathematics by day, a blogger for B&N Teens, LGBTQ Reads, and Frolic by night, and an author of young adult and new adult novels at every spare moment in between…

  • Alix E. Harrow and her first novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Interview With an Author: Alix E. Harrow

    Alix E. Harrow is a part-time historian with a full-time desk job, a lot of opinions, and excessive library fines. Her short fiction has appeared in Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Apex, and other…

  • Tim Mason and his first adult novel, The Darwin Affair

    Interview With an Author: Tim Mason

    Tim Mason is a playwright whose work has been produced in New York and throughout the world. Among the awards he has received are a Kennedy Center Award, the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award, a fellowship…

  • Del Howison and his first novel, The Survival of Margaret Thomas

    Interview With an Author: Del Howison

    Del Howison is an award-winning editor, journalist, fiction author, and actor. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award four times (and won it once), for the Black Quill Award twice, for 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.
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    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...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    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...