Kindred

May 3, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Octavia Butler once described her supernatural, time-traveling neo-slave narrative Kindred as “a grim fantasy”. It’s hard to imagine any realistic treatment of slave life in the antebellum […]

Welcome to Lovecraft

April 18, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

Welcome to Lovecraft, the first volume in Joe Hill’s Locke & Key graphic novel series, focuses on siblings Bode, Tyler, and Kinsey Locke relocating from California to […]

The Call of Cthulhu

April 5, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

“The Call of Cthulhu” is probably H.P. Lovecraft’s most enduring and influential story. It’s been reprinted and borrowed from and adapted in thousands of ways since its […]

The Waste Lands

March 29, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Early on The Waste Lands (the third book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King), protagonists Roland, Eddie, and Susannah encounter Shardik, a gigantic bear who […]

The Gunslinger

March 27, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

The Gunslinger is the first novel in The Dark Tower, Stephen King’s classic, epic cross-genre series. It introduces the reader to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead, […]

Choke Hold

March 19, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Choke Hold is the 2011 sequel to Christa Faust’s Money Shot. It offers the first-person narrative of former porn actress Angel Dare as she tries to save the […]

The Graveyard Book

March 7, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

(Spoilers follow!) The Graveyard Book is a children’s novel by popular author Neil Gaiman. It’s constructed as a set of linked stories — Gaiman loosely modeled the […]

Mr. Hyde

February 27, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been adapted for movies, television and comics so many times that many people who haven’t read […]

The Secret Sharer

February 22, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Joseph Conrad’s novella The Secret Sharer tells the story of a young sea-captain who aids Leggatt, the mate of the Sephora who is a fugitive after killing […]