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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Giano Cromley and his latest novel, American Mythology

    Interview With an Author: Giano Cromley

    Born and raised in Montana, Giano Cromley is the author of two young adult novels and a collection of short stories. He is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and was a…

  • Photographer Robert Landau and his visual book, Art Deco: Los Angeles

    Interview With an Author: Robert Landau

    Robert Landau is a photographer and author of several visual books, including the internationally acclaimed Rock 'N' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip. His photographs have been shown all over the…

  • Author Arvind Ethan David and his graphic novel, Trouble is My Business

    Interview With an Author: Arvind Ethan David

    Arvind Ethan David is a Stoker Award-nominated graphic novelist who has also written chart-topping Audiodramas, television, and plays. Arvind is also a producer of film and theater, including the Emmy…

  • Gareth Brown and the cover of his book The Society of Unknowable Objects

    Interview With an Author: Gareth Brown

    Gareth Brown is the author of the international bestseller The Book of Doors. He wanted to be a writer from a very young age, and he completed his first novel as a teenager. For the last twenty years…

  • Direct Descendant book cover by Tanya Huff

    Interview With an Author: Tanya Huff

    Tanya Huff may have left Nova Scotia at three, and has lived most of her life since in Ontario, but she still considers herself a Maritimer. On the way to the idyllic rural existence she shares with…

  • Author Kathleen Kaufman and her latest novel, The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey

    Interview With an Author: Kathleen Kaufman

    Kathleen Kaufman is an author of magical realism and feminist gothic horror, exploring "the other" from "the other's" point of view, how the horror of the past manifests in the present, and the…

  • Author Sarah James and her latest novel, Last Stop Union Station

    Interview With an Author: Sarah James

    Sarah James is a graduate of the MFA Writing for Screen & Television program at USC and the BA Playwriting program at Fordham Lincoln Center. She currently works as a freelance writer. She is the…

  • Author Lincoln Michel and his latest novel, Metallic Realms

    Interview With an Author: Lincoln Michel

    Lincoln Michel's previous books are the story collection Upright Beasts and the novel The Body Scout, which was named one of the 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    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.
    Սարսափ։ Ոմանք սիրում են այն։ Ոմանք՝ ոչ։ Եվ, ընդհանուր առմամբ, մարդիկ հակված են ուժեղ զգացմունքներ ունենալ ժանրի նկատմամբ՝ ընկնելով այս կամ այն ճամբարի մեջ։ Մի փոքր հեգնանքով, կան մարդիկ, ովքեր «վախենում» են սարսափից որպես ժանր։ Այո, նրանք վախենում են ժանրից...
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    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Երբ ընթերցողները Մարջորի Մաքքաունի «Վերջնական կտրվածքի» վերջում հեռացան Ջոի Ջեսափից, նա արդեն բացահայտել էր մարդասպանի ինքնությունը, որը սպանել էր ռեժիսորի օգնական Քորթնի Լայլին մեծ բյուջեով սուպերհերոսական ֆիլմի նկարահանման հրապարակում: Նա ողջ էր մնացել իր դեմ մահափորձից, երբ մարդասպանը...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Իվենը պրոֆեսիոնալ մարդասպան է։ Այս պնդման վրա շեշտը պետք է դնել «պրոֆեսիոնալ» բառի վրա։ Նա վերակենդանացած մարդասպան է, որի հիշողությունները ջնջվել են և ծառայում է Մարդասպանների Տիրուհուն, որը հնարավոր դարձրեց նրա երկրորդ «կյանքի» հնարավորությունը։ Նա արդյունավետ է, զգույշ և պատրաստ է սպանել (տերմինը...
  • 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...
  • 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 The Fox Wife

    The Fox Wife

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...