# 88: Boomsday by Christopher Buckley:The host [of Greet the Press] was a genial, ruddy-faced man named Glen Waddowes. He began his career as a Benedictine monk, left the order under circumstances never entirely clarified, then became a speechwriter and ultimately chief of staff to the governor of New York ... Beneath Waddowes's jolly, rubicund ( Read more... )

My review of Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Red Tree is now up over at Strange Horizons.

# 60: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin:When the Nightlord sagged to the ground, dropping Sieh in the process, I nearly fell with them. I had no idea why I was still alive. The tales of the Arameri's weapons are full of them slaughtering whole armies. There are no stories of crazed barbarian girls fighting back.
Synopsis: A crazed ( Read more... )

# 85: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R L LaFevers:

How does one catch a demonic cat, anyway? Let alone hang on to it long enough to remove a curse? Cats are so contrary, even when they aren't possessed by black magic.

Synopsis: 11-year-old Theodosia Throckmorton, in possession of perhaps the best name ever, trails around after her ( Read more... )

# 76: Splatter Movies: Breaking the Last Taboo of the Screen by John McCarty:

Then, a little later, I was doing a play in North Carolina, and I got a telegram from George [Romero] saying: 'I've got another gig, call me.' And that was Dawn of the Dead, and he told me to start thinking of ways to kill people. The rest, as they say, is history ( Read more... )

# 57: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead:

In her room at the Friendly League Residence, she reads Theoretical Elevators, Volume Two. Reads, The race sleeps in this hectic and disordered century. Grim lids that will not open. Anxious retinas flit to and fro beneath them. They are stirred by dreaming. In this dream of uplift, they understand that ( Read more... )

# 44: A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell:

The neighboring hive has few bees in it when I open it, only a fraction of those that have been in the other hives. I start pulling frames out to see what is the matter. They have a queen, for in the center frame I find a patch of sealed brood, developing larvae and eggs, but the entire brood area covers a ( Read more... )

I reviewed House of Wax for blabapalooza here.

I'm totally not kidding about the nightmares, either. This is the movie that nearly made me swear off slashers.

Girl vs Fog.

More yammering on about 80s horror movies over at blabapalooza.