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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Leila Siddiqui and her latest novel, The Glowing Hours

    Interview With an Author: Leila Siddiqui

    Leila Siddiqui was born in Chicago, raised in Texas, and now lives in New York with her husband. She is also a digital marketing strategist in publishing. When she's not writing, she spends her time…

  • Hell’s Heart book cover by Alexis Hall

    Interview With an Author: Alexis Hall

    Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in their purse, and nothing particular to interest them on shore, Alexis Hall thought they would sail about a little and see the…

  • Author Tesia Tsai  and her debut novel, Deathly Fates

    Interview With an Author: Tesia Tsai

    Tesia Tsai was born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She currently teaches at Brigham Young University and lives in Utah with her husband, two cats, and a dog. When not writing or…

  • Author Rebekah Faubion and her latest novel, Lost Girls of Hollow Lake

    Interview With an Author: Rebekah Faubion

    Rebekah Faubion is a queer author and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. She is the author of rom-coms The Lovers and The Sun and the Moon. She enjoys reading tarot, bingeing horror novels way past…

  • Author Lily Brooks-Dalton and her latest novel, Ruins

    Interview With an Author: Lily Brooks-Dalton

    Lily Brooks-Dalton is the author of the national bestseller The Light Pirate, which was the runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a #1 Indie Next title, and a New York Times Editors' Pick…

  • Author Anthony Horowitz and his debut novel, Cameron Sullivan

    Interview With an Author: Cameron Sullivan

    Cameron Sullivan was born in Perth, Western Australia. He grew up with the dark fantasy and horror icons of the 80s and went on to study classics and creative writing at the University of Western…

  • Author Johnny Compton and his latest book, Dead First

    Interview With an Author: Johnny Compton

    Johnny Compton is a Stoker Award-nominated author whose short stories have appeared in Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast, and several other publications. His fascination with…

  • Author Sarah Domet and her latest novel, Everything Lost Returns

    Interview With an Author: Sarah Domet

    Sarah Domet is the author of the novel The Guineveres and the craft book 90 Days to Your Novel. She is a professor and the coordinator of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Lost Story

    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    15年前、ジェレミーとラルフは、学年末の遠足でウェストバージニア州のレッドクロウ州立森林公園へ行った際に姿を消した。ついさっきまでそこにいたのに、次の瞬間にはいなくなっていたのだ。森林は何度も捜索されたが、少年たちの痕跡は一切見つからなかった。そして…
  • Cover image for Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    アーサー・エドワーズは、イングランド北部の小さな町ノースブリッジで生涯を過ごしてきた。彼はそこで育ち、ノースブリッジで妻のマデリンと出会い結婚した。ノースブリッジは、彼とマデリンが二人の子供、エリザベスとパトリックを育てた場所でもある。ほとんどの小さな町と同様に、ノースブリッジは…
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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.
    ホラー。好きな人もいれば、そうでない人もいる。そして一般的に言って、人々はこのジャンルに対して強い感情を抱いており、どちらかの陣営に分かれる傾向がある。皮肉なことに、ホラーというジャンルそのものを「恐れている」人もいる。そう、彼らはこのジャンルを恐れているのだ…。
  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    マージョリー・マコーンの『ファイナル・カット』の終盤で、読者はジョーイ・ジェサップが、大作スーパーヒーロー映画の撮影現場で助監督のコートニー・ライルを殺害した犯人の正体を突き止めた場面を目にする。彼女は、犯人が仕掛けた銃撃事件で命を狙われたものの、生き延びた。
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    イヴーンはプロの殺し屋だ。この言葉で特に強調すべきは「プロ」という部分だ。彼女は蘇生した殺し屋で、記憶を消され、二度目の「人生」を可能にした暗殺者の長に仕えている。彼女は有能で、慎重で、躊躇なく(殺し屋という言葉は…)
  • 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...
  • Cover image for How to Solve Your Own Murder

    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...
  • Cover image for Women of Good Fortune

    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...