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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Timothy Janovsky and his latest novel, New Adult

    Interview With an Author: Timothy Janovsky

    Timothy Janovsky is a queer, multidisciplinary storyteller from New Jersey. He holds a degree in theatre and dance from Muhlenberg College. His work as a humor writer has been featured on Points in…

  • Author Amiee Gibbs and her debut novel, The Carnivale of Curiosities

    Interview With an Author: Amiee Gibbs

    Amiee Gibbs grew up in rural Maryland, where she still lives on an allegedly haunted road, but has dreams of running away to Ireland. She has worked for Penguin Random House for 13 years as a Sales…

  • Author Mat Osman and his latest novel, The Ghost Theatre

    Interview With an Author: Mat Osman

    Mat Osman is a musician, songwriter, bassist, and founding member of the British band Suede, as well as a composer for film and television. His writing about art and travel has appeared in the…

  • Author Josh Winning and his latest novel, Burn the Negative

    Interview With an Author: Josh Winning

    Josh Winning is the author of the critically acclaimed The Shadow Glass. He is a senior film writer at Radio Times, has written for Total Film for over a decade, and is the cohost of movie podcast…

  • Author Alex Hay and his debut novel, The Housekeepers

    Interview With an Author: Alex Hay

    Alex Hay grew up in the United Kingdom in Cambridge and Cardiff and has been writing as long as he can remember. He studied history at the University of York and wrote his dissertation on female power…

  • Author T. Kingfisher and her latest book, Thornhedge

    Interview With an Author: T. Kingfisher

    T. Kingfisher (she/her) writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead, and A House with Good Bones. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling…

  • Author Joe R. Lansdale and his latest book, Things Get Ugly

    Interview With an Author: Joe R. Lansdale

    Joe R. Lansdale is the internationally bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including the popular, long-running Hap and Leonard novels. Many of his cult classics have been adapted for…

  • Author Joss Rountree and his debut novel, The Legend of Charlie Fish

    Interview With an Author: Josh Rountree

    Josh Rountree has published more than sixty stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Realms of Fantasy, The Deadlands, Bourbon Penn, PseudoPod…

  • Author Chuck Tingle and his latest novel, Camp Damascus

    Interview With an Author: Chuck Tingle

    Chuck Tingle is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah, and now splits…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Пятнадцать лет назад Джереми и Ральф пропали во время школьной экскурсии в государственный лес Ред-Кроу в Западной Вирджинии. В один момент они были там, а в другой — исчезли. Лес неоднократно обыскивали, но никаких следов мальчиков так и не нашли. И...
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    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Артур Эдвардс всю свою жизнь прожил в маленьком городке Нортбридж на севере Англии. Он вырос там. И именно там он познакомился и женился на своей жене Мадлен. В Нортбридже они с Мадлен вырастили двоих детей, Элизабет и Патрика. Как и в большинстве маленьких городков, независимо от...
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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.
    Ужасы. Кто-то их любит! Кто-то нет! И, как правило, у людей складываются сильные чувства по отношению к этому жанру, они делятся на две категории. По иронии судьбы, есть люди, которые «боятся» ужасов как жанра. Да, они боятся этого жанра...
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    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Когда читатели оставили Джоуи Джессап в конце книги Марджори Маккоун «Последний кадр», она узнала личность убийцы, расправившегося с помощницей режиссера Кортни Лайл на съемочной площадке высокобюджетного супергеройского фильма. Она пережила покушение на свою жизнь, когда убийца...
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    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Эвин — профессиональная убийца. Здесь следует сделать акцент на слове «профессиональная». Она — ожившая убийца, лишённая памяти и служащая Матроне Ассасинов, которая дала ей второй шанс на «жизнь». Она эффективна, осторожна и готова расправиться (термин...
  • 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...