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Good for vampire disposal. 3.5 out of 5
Trans memories. 3.5 out of 5
John Taylor, a box and a heart. 3 out of 5
Accountant taking sword paperwork problems. 3.5 out of 5 http://booktionary.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-fiction-jonathan-wood-on.html
Need extra clothes when raiding a wizard. 3.5 out of 5 http://booktionary.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-fiction-jonathan-wood-on.html
Lovecraftian monsters – just a really big snack for polar bears. 4 out of 5 http://booktionary.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-fiction-jonathan-wood-on.html
Shoot, then chop. 4 out of 5 http://booktionary.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-fiction-jonathan-wood-on.html
Continue reading about The Changing of the Times – Jonathan Wood
“When he came down the stairs, he saw Doctor Orient waiting for him outside the study. He was so thin these days, even thinner than the time he had the trouble with the crazy girl. His dark skin was getting sallow from being indoors so much and his green eyes were washed out and dim. [...]
Not as good as the first two in the series, as yet again we get bored by a US presidential election. There’s a conflict in Hell and one bunch want to do the Armageddon on Earth, the others do not. One demon possesses a Republican presidential candidate to get elected and hence Armageddonize. The other [...]
Continue reading about Sympathy For the Devil – Justin Gustainis
“Up until now it hasn’t been too much of a problem. Until now, I’ve been able to take advantage of this being a reality other than ours, and just summoned things by concentrating hard. Apparently now I’m in Nyarlathotep’s actual house, that’s not an option. Not that I don’t try it. I imagine swords, guns, [...]
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event: Case File 10 Rematch – Jonathan Wood
“As citadels that are the embodiment of sheer terror go, Nyarlathotep’s is pretty imposing.” 4 out of 5 http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/the-nyarlathotep-event-by-jonathan-wood-case-file-9-citadel/
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event: Case File 9 Citadel – Jonathan Wood
Porky with a problem. 2.5 out of 5 http://www.tyngasreviews.com/2011/08/ffthree-little-pigs-by-justin-gustainis.html
“I never thought I’d say it, but once you get used to a dimension of fear and chaos, it’s not as bad as it sounds. Yes, it’s driven my partner, Clyde, insane, and yes, it does keep trying to kill me with more and more depraved horrors, but, well it could be worse.” 4 out [...]
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event Case File 8 Interrogation – Jonathan Wood
“Reality slips. I stand in a corridor full of doors. I can hear scampering about and above me. And I know I can hear the rats in the walls. I am still afraid. I would still favor flight over fight. But fight I will. Because I can face my fear. Because now, Nyarlathotep, you get [...]
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event Case File 7 The I in Team – Jonathan Wood
“Some days I really get the vastness of the universe. I’m tiny. It’s big. I don’t matter. I get it. Then, some days, you save the world—you know, for example you close an interdimentsional portal infecting the world with madness, kill an avatar of fear called Nyarlathotep when armed only with a bit of two-by-four—and [...]
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event: Case File 6 Sweet Dreams – Jonathan Wood
“Some days, I think, I really need to ask for a transfer. You get told you’re going into a department called MI37, and you think, oh that sounds cloak-and-dagger exciting. They charge you with defending the realm from all things supernatural and tentacle-y, and you think, well that could be exciting. Then you find you [...]
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event: Case File 4 Portal – Jonathan Wood
“In real life you face down a horde of angry cultists, close an interdimensional portal, high-five your spell-slinging partner, and then you find out there’s a seven-foot tall avatar of fear and chaos who’s all pissed about it and manifested behind you when you weren’t looking. In real life this shit never ends.” 4 out [...]
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event: Case File 5 Nyarlathotep – Jonathan Wood
“The sensible thing, when you tear through realities and summon avatars of fear and chaos is to close the door behind you.” 4 out of 5 http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/07/the-nyarlathotep-event-by-jonathan-wood-case-file-3-countdown/#more-77482
““The Children of Nyarlathotep will stop you!” One of the yellow-robed men is pulling free of the tangled pile of his fellows. ”We will come for you in your dreams. We will unseam your sanity.” Clyde mutters something under his breath. The man’s head slams to the ground, tongue lolling.” 3 out of 5 http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/07/the-nyarlathotep-event-by-jonathan-wood-case-file-2-rescue/#more-77403
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event Case File 2 Rescue – Jonathan Wood
“For the record, it is very difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when you went wrong if a woman with a Laura Ashley dress and blood-stained teeth is rhythmically beating your head against the floor. Just so you know.” 3.5 out of 5 http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/07/the-nyarlathotep-event-by-jonathan-wood-case-file-1-performance/
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event Case File 1 Performance – Jonathan Wood
“The biggest chupacabra in the pack was only four feet tall, but what they lacked in mass, they made up for in sheer ferocity. Being unable to get to their dinner was making them even surlier than usual. The peasant girl had been futilely tinkering with the engine of her broken-down Chevy Vega when the [...]
Continue reading about Monster Hunter Vendetta 1-6 – Larry Correia
“I always assumed that if you have a clandestine organization then you’d have a clandestine headquarters. Stands to reason. And—I concede this point—Oxford is, admittedly, short on skull-shaped volcanoes. Shark-infested waters—ditto. But there is some pretty awesome architecture. Dreaming spires and all that. I always thought you could bury something beneath the limestone columns and [...]
Jonathan Wood has come up with a secret government department that protects the UK from monsters story that might be what you get if you crossed Caballistics, Inc with Hellboy and only gave them the budget of the unit in New Tricks or Taggart. Plus a 15% off frequent buyers card for all Duracell purchases. [...]
If only mum hadn’t been a revenant slasher I could have been a normal weird girl. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=7427&pg=22
Cold, now we got evil vampires. 3.5 out of 5 https://comics.comixology.com/#/view/1200/Impaler-Vol-1-1-of-6-
Little red cop party dress problem. 3.5 out of 5 https://comics.comixology.com/#/view/1100/Witchblade-1
Little Red One grows up and gets a big frog problem. 4 out of 5 https://comics.comixology.com/#/view/2575/Hellboy-Vol-1-1-Seed-of-Destruction
Nuking the vamps didn’t work. Neither did the whole Vlad Hunt thing. 4 out of 5 https://comics.comixology.com/#/issue/1159/Impaler-Vol-2-1
I’m a monster? 2 out of 5 http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album_view.php?gid=1831&page=25
Here’s a novel of the spinoff Hellboy character Lobster Johnson – a chronological predecessor of the big red filed off horns bloke. Lobster Johnson is also a homage to the Shadow with his group of agents working the streets for him and his scary persona. A down on his luck quack gets involved with organised [...]
Continue reading about The Satan Factory – Thomas E. Sniegoski
Always have the right amulet. 3 out of 5 http://i.usatoday.net/life/_photos/2010/10/11/hboyx.jpg http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-10-11-hellboy11_ST_N.htm
The origin story of Jackie Estacado – a boy in an unpleasant Catholic orphanage. He befriends a younger girl there, and tries to help shield her from sadistic nuns. No-one to protect him from paedophile priests, though. That is, except the power of The Darkness passed on by his dead father – which literally rips [...]
Another good Hellboy novel. This time Hellboy is surprised by friend and liaision Kate Corrigan asking him to meet her at her university office. She explains it is about some research and a colleague who has also been doing some work of interest. Then things get literally chilly, as the uber-werewolves have the Heart of [...]
A desperate young woman in Amalfi, Italy asks for BPRD help, and the Big Red Guy investigates, finding that her claims of a family curse that causes the death of young women is, in fact, real. Flaming hot werewolf real, in fact. There’s a twist, though. This lovely practice of human sacrifice just might be [...]
http://images.darkhorse.com/darkhorse/downloads/ecomics/hbyepilogues/2ch/hbyepiloguesp15.jpg Red Right Hand ain’t yours Raspie. 4.5 out of 5 http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/eComics/981/Hellboy-The-Epilogues?part_num=1&page=15
Another solid outing for John Taylor, with the usual mayhem and lack of the mundane. Larry Oblivion wants John to find his brother Tommy (also a friend of John’s), who went missing in the Lilith War. There’s also an elf lord caught in the middle of the usual skullduggery and shenanigans between the various branches [...]
Continue reading about The Good the Bad and the Uncanny – Simon R. Green
Tentacle monstrosities like mince pies too. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view;=story&id;=58511
A woman hires Mr Carlyle because of the ghost of her daughter. 3.5 out of 5
Dispose of fakers too, does Sonja. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Vampire King Of the Goth Chicks – Nancy A. Collins
A building project uncovers a secret underground nazi research project – and the developer doesn’t trust his government to deal with it, so calls in caballistics inc. Things quickly go to hell from there, as apparently some of these Thule society types were good with the traps. Getting out alive involves breaking an Accord that [...]
The third Fiends Of the Eastern Front novel opens towards the end of the Second World War – the siege of Leningrad is broken, and the Eastern front counterattack has begun, as the Germans retreat. Rumania surrenders, and joines the Allies – which means the Russians disband their vampire hunting units as Constanta and company [...]
The second Fiends Of the Eastern Front novel takes a lot at the effect Constanta and his Rumanian allies are having on the Russians, and is centred around the siege of Leningrad. A young kommisar gets into trouble when he punches out a ballet teacher who is forcing starved and dying young dancers to perform [...]
The second Felix Castor is slower than the first and suffers a bit from that. Which is odd given he gets strangled and beaten a lot. Here he is tasked to find a missing girl, who happens to be dead – so has to find her ghost. His friends from the previous novel are h [...]
The early history of Richard Jeperson, as his first major field mission for the Diogenes Club has him part of a team investigating a haunted train with destruction in its past – and nuclear armageddon in the future. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train – Kim Newman
An anthology of fantasy of the hillbilly/backwoods/mountain man variety. Manly Wade Wellman, David Drake’s homage to such, and a joint novella by Flint and Spoor. Mountain Magic : 01 Diamonds Are Forever – Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor Nathan is an elderly backwoods ‘Cunning Man’. In an article on his website David Drake talks [...]
This is a classy bunch of stories of consistent quality. I have a reverse interest in yank hillbilly type stories, so the fact that these can hold my attention means they are very superior. Stories about a guitar slinging ghostbuster wandering where trouble leads him or looks for him, and helping where he can, asking [...]
Continue reading about John the Balladeer – Manly Wade Wellman
A hung woman wants to talk to John. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__22.htm
Continue reading about Where Did She Wander? – Manly Wade Wellman
John helps a couple of kids. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__21.htm
Continue reading about Nobody Ever Goes There – Manly Wade Wellman
Big possums, Molech monsters and hoards. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__19.htm
Continue reading about Owls Hoot In the Daytime – Manly Wade Wellman
John’s taking Everdare so they can get hitched, and stop for some sin removal. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__17.htm
Continue reading about Trill Coster’s Burden – Manly Wade Wellman
A group of collected vignettes. Then I Wasn’t Alone – Manly Wade WellmanYou Know the Tale Of Hoph – Manly Wade WellmanBlue Monkey – Manly Wade WellmanThe Stars Down There – Manly Wade WellmanFind The Place Yourself – Manly Wade WellmanI Can’t Claim That – Manly Wade WellmanWho Else Could I Count On – Manly [...]
Continue reading about Wonder As I Wander – Manly Wade Wellman
A group collection of vignettes. John’s My Name – Manly Wade WellmanWhy They’re Named That – Manly Wade WellmanNone Wiser For the Trip – Manly Wade WellmanNary Spell – Manly Wade Wellman Just goodness and a guitar for this big bloke. 3 out of 5 Gardinels? Scarier than Venus Fly traps. 3 out of 5 [...]
Continue reading about Farther Down the Trail – Manly Wade Wellman
Space time nook. 3 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__16.htm
Continue reading about None Wiser For the Trip – Manly Wade Wellman
Gardinels? Scarier than Venus Fly traps. 3 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__16.htm
Continue reading about Why They’re Named That – Manly Wade Wellman
Just goodness and a guitar for this big bloke. 3 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__16.htm
Time to stop a war. 3 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__15.htm
Continue reading about Who Else Could I Count On – Manly Wade Wellman
John, not witch-killed. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__15.htm
Continue reading about I Can’t Claim That – Manly Wade Wellman
Snake-lizard scary path. 3 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__15.htm
Continue reading about Find The Place Yourself – Manly Wade Wellman
Magic squares and devil Hatfields and McCoys find Silver John. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__13.htm
Continue reading about Old Devlins Was A-Waiting – Manly Wade Wellman
Ancient treasure has a skull flinging guardian, finds John. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563__10.htm
Continue reading about Shiver In the Pines – Manly Wade Wellman
One cursed party, and John tries to help. 4 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563___9.htm
Continue reading about The Little Black Train – Manly Wade Wellman
John finds a dead guy can bring the rain. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563___8.htm
John finds a dead guy can bring the rain. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563___8.htm
Continue reading about Call Me From the Valley – Manly Wade Wellman
John has soap bubble universe monsters and scorned women to deal with. 3.5 out of 5 http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/Mountain%20Magic/0743488563___7.htm
Walpurgis Night is for shagging, Satan summoning, and shooting. The behind the scenes antagonist from the first novel, Walter Grobius returns. His rapidly deteriorating health and a full moon on this particular occasion have led him to hire a powerful black wizard named Pardee. For a deal with the devil, of course. Eternal youth, etc. [...]
Dog pack dead. 3.5 out of 5
A coffin, I reckon. 3 out of 5
One Harker, three women. With fangs. 3.5 out of 5
Just a misunderstood Count. Didn’t see me staking and lopping off heads, did you? 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Dracula Tape an Excerpt – Fred Saberhagen
Ernie Pine gets involved in a case of Chinese wizardy and ghosts. 3.5 out of 5 http://media.libsyn.com/media/dunesteef/Dunesteef_43_Time_In_A_Rice_Bowl_by_Rick_Kennett.mp3
Double Helix’s potential bad Bugsy babysitting means wants a raise. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about His Enemies Shall Lick the Dust – Melinda M. Snodgrass
An occult detective of the wealthy adventurer type. e.g. Philip St. George is too rich to be interested in getting any more money. Especially after the death of his wife at a cult’s hands. So, he sets out to be a globetrotting occult debunker. He takes a bit more of a Doc Savage approach to [...]
Ice cream bad mood deli rescue. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Interlude At Duane’s – F. Paul Wilson
Vampire Hunter reunion family Commission omission. 4 out of 5 http://keithstevenson.com/media/TISF_008.mp3
Continue reading about Smoking Waiting For the Dawn – Jason Nahrung
One large dog, one topless dancer for de Grandin. 2.5 out of 5
Jack is hired for two cases – to help a nun who is being blackmailed, and to discover what is going on with the son of a wealthy woman. The latter has become a member of a cult that is rather like the Scientologists. However, this lot is worse than just being a brainwashing bunch [...]
http://www.jakonrath.com/freebies.htm#proof A couple of robbers discover an undead Van Helsing, still wanting to get rid of all vamps. 3.5 out of 5
Naked girl, altar, Devil worship. Usual sort of stuff for Jules de Grandin. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Incense Of Abomination – Seabury Quinn
http://www.orbitbooks.net/thicker-than-water/ “‘Asmodeus,’ the woman answered, dipping her head in acknowledgement. ‘It’s been a long time.’ The man’s head sagged. He was fighting a big enough dose of the drug to kill a small herd of elephants. OPG was a neurotoxin, cleared for clinical use only in a very narrow range of situations. This patient, Rafael [...]
The execution of a confessed satanist in France just might not take, as a group of Left Hand Path worshippers intend that he, along with other leaders should always live again. Preparations for this include orgies and long pig – even going so far as to include roast cop on the menu. Sabat is involved [...]
Mummies just do not run around the street killing people. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Man In Crescent Terrace – Seabury Quinn
Red Velvet Manor draining Blue Monster interruption. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about Some Velvet Morning – Nancy A. Collins
An evening at a party full of poseurs from the art world, thanks to girlfriend Gia leads Jack into this ghost story. Her friend loses a bracelet and wants to go consult her psychic – and Gia talks Jack into taking her. It turns out the Repairman was an assistant to your assual psychic scamster [...]
When Repairman Jack is hired in strange circumstances – a woman’s message saying only he can help – he is soon drawn into the strange world of conspiracy theory nuts and their conventions. While this sort of wingnuttery amuses him slightly, the terror dreams of rakoshi do not, neither do things a lot more odd [...]
A pleasant surprise, with bonus. In fact, still thinking about this long afterwards, this is one of the cases where quite a while later, the score gets an upgrade. The bonus being there is a short story included at the beginning, as an introduction to Mr. Morris. Yes, he is a descendant of the original, [...]
http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2008/12/evil-ways-justin-gustainis-excerpt/ ” With a screech of rage that only Libby Chastain could hear, the water sprite flung itself at the two hit men. But the watery form did not soak them. Instead it quickly divided in two, each half forming a long thin stream—that instantly shot up each man’s nose. The streams went on and [...]
http://web.archive.org/web/20031209123351/www.eventhorizon.com/sfzine/fiction/warhols_dracula/index.html Johnny Pop is a Romanian vampire come to the USA. He has had a bright idea, selling vampire blood as a drug, and Studio 54 makes a nice base for him, indeed.However, all good things must come to an end. Vampire hunters have a job to do as well.“The taxi driver stood over him. [...]
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/mhi-sample-chapters/ “On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window. Now, I didn’t just wake up that morning and decide that I was going to kill my boss with my bare hands. It really [...]
Continue reading about Monster Hunter International 1 – Larry Correia
Some of this is ok, but the stupid subplot that has a fluffy relationship between Liz and hellboy is really, really, annoying, and pointless. The Elf princess and Abe makes some sort of sense, but the other is ludicrous, and makes this way too cheesy, overall. Giant indestructible robots and killer pixie things, sure, but [...]
One new fascist Avenger script, overseen. 4.5 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10624 The first of the adventures of the Psychic Doctor. Three John Silence Stories 1 A Psychical Invasion – Algernon BlackwoodThree John Silence Stories 2 Ancient Sorceries – Algernon BlackwoodThree John Silence Stories 3 The Nemesis Of Fire – Algernon Blackwood John Silence vs an evil Dark Powers woman, with some help from a brave [...]
Continue reading about Three John Silence Stories – Algernon Blackwood
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10624 One Colonel, an unhappy elemental, a mummy and John Silence. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Nemesis Of Fire – Algernon Blackwood
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10624 A Witchy Woman Sabbath, this time. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Ancient Sorceries – Algernon Blackwood
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10624 John Silence vs an evil Dark Powers woman, with some help from a brave collie and a cat. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about A Psychical Invasion – Algernon Blackwood
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10659 John Silence does his Occult Detective thing again, in three more varied cases. Three John Silence Stories 1 Secret Worship – Algernon BlackwoodThree John Silence Stories 2 The Camp Of the Dog – Algernon BlackwoodThree John Silence Stories 3 A Victim Of Higher Space – Algernon Blackwood Devil worshipping, demon summoning, John Silence. 3 [...]
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http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10659 Or Camp of the Werewolf Double, and John Silence. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Camp Of the Dog – Algernon Blackwood
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10659 Devil worshipping, demon summoning, John Silence. 3 out of 5
Those Who Seek Forgiveness – Laurell K. HamiltonAnita Blake raises a woman’s husband from the dead, but realises his death was not as described. 4 out of 5
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Origin Of Species – A. M. DellamonicaOne genetically engineered vampire hunter construct has a few problems on debut. 4 out of 5
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Fantasy Room – Adam-Troy CastroI’d like an Interview With the Vampire. The big D. 3.5 out of 5
