I Am Providence Nick Mamatas Night Shade Books August 9, 2016 Reviewed by William Grabowski In the wake of the November 2015 decision to retire the likeness of H.P. Lovecraft from its 40-year tenure atop the World Fantasy Award, Nick Mamatas’s latest novel looms over the cultural mulch like a punchy stand-up comic. Those seated […]

Cool air ghosted over Martin’s burning face, carried rotten notes of mold, corrosion, and deeper decay of some animal matter. “Welcome home,” he said. At that moment, a gray form rose from the distant tree-line. Martin froze. He ought to be down in the quiet dark—not standing here paralyzed with dread. Jesus Christ . . […]

The Incantations of Daniel Johnston A Graphic Novel by Ricardo Cavolo Written by Scott McClanahan Two Dollar Radio July 5, 2016 A Trade Paperback Original: $16.99 U.S. Reviewed by William Grabowski Though I can’t recall what came first—reading about Scott McClanahan, or reading one of his books—I can without hesitation say the emotional resonance induced […]

Before the country went dark, skies humming that mournful dirge for which no source could be found, Martin packed a few supplies, bugged out of his depopulated apartment building and footed it to Nike Site Road. No bombs had flashed, incinerated cities into howling whirlpools of black ash . . . but whoever had burst […]

Lada Terra/Venus/T+1.327   Deren stood watching the east horizon’s dirty yellow smudge, lightning popping inside clouds of sulfur like neurons in some titanic mind. Forcing himself to the west viewport, he gazed across fewer than a hundred meters of cracked gray slate, where loomed Venera 24, a metallic abstract simultaneously broiled, dissolved, and squashed—even three […]