Book Review: HIDE by Kiersten White

Title: Hide Author: Kiersten White Publisher: Del Rey Books Page Count: 256 Pages Publication Date/Year: 2022 Genre: Horror We all played Hide and Go Seek when we were kids, right? How many of us played in an amusement park, let alone an abandoned and closed amusement park? Probably very few…

The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock - Definitive Edition from Saga Press

Michael Moorcock is one of the towering giants of Speculative Fiction, he’s been writing and publishing stories and novels since the 1950s, both of his own creation and as an editor. His most famous creation, Elric of Melniboné first appeared in a story called “The Dreaming City” in 1961. Since…

The Completist: Duncan M. Hamilton's Dragonslayer Trilogy

I’ve decided to resurrect one of my old columns, at least for this particular post. The column in question: The Completist from the sadly closed SFSignal (still available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine). As I said almost a decade ago: I’ve read a lot of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror…

Book Review: Son of the Poison Rose by Jonathan Maberry

Title: Son of the Poison Rose Author: Jonathan Maberry Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Page Count: 687 Pages (including appendix/glossary) Publication Date/Year: January 2023 Genre: Epic Fantasy / Epic Horror / Grimdark I was a big fan of Jonathan Maberry’s first foray into Epic Fantasy last year, Kagen the Damned; which…

In Search of Darkness: 1980s Horror Documentary Trilogy

I’ve been a horror fan for years, I cut my reading teeth on Stephen King, just as many “children of the 80s” did, as well as early Dean Koontz and Robert R. McCammon. I sort of skipped all the Goosebumps and Christopher Pike books, I was already on King early…

Book Review: Blood Country (The Raven #2) by Jonathan Janz

Title: Blood Country (The Raven Book 2) Author: Jonathan Janz Publisher: Flame Tree Press Page Count: 288 Pages Publication Date/Year: 2022 Genre: Horror I’ve been making my way through Jonathan Janz’s backlist over the last couple of years. About a year ago (June 2022), I read and thoroughly enjoyed The…

Book Review: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Title: The Reformatory Author: Tananarive Due Publisher: Saga Press Page Count: 576 Pages Publication Date/Year: October 2023 Genre: Horror Tananarive Due is one of the Important Voices in horror literature, her work has been nominated for many awards, she’s won the American Book Award (The Living Blood), she teaches Black…

The Completist: Richard Swan's EMPIRE OF THE WOLF

Just over a year later and here’s the second installment of my resurrected Completist series.* As a reminder, previous posts of: The Completist from the sadly closed SFSignal are still available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.When a writer is able to publish a trilogy, on a book per year basis,…

The Completist: CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD by Adam Cesare

Coulrophobia: the fear of clowns. The setting of a cornfield (Lost in a Maize over at TVTropes). Two prominent and familiar horror elements, so if you combine a creepy clown figure with the tried-and-true setting of cornfields, you’ve got two great tastes that taste great together in the horror genre.…

Countdown to Halloween 2024 at SFFWorld is a Wrap!

Well…Countdown to Halloween 2024 is a wrap at SFFWorld. We had a lot of reviews go up this year and as ever, our friend Randy M (noted Horror expert) contributed quite a few. Take a look at what we (Randy, my long-standing SFFWorld colleague Mark Yon, and I) did this…

Book Review (Audio Book): The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

Title: The Sword of Kaigen (A Theonite War Story) Author/Publisher: M.L. Wang Narrator: Andrew Tell Length: 24 Hours, 24 Minutes Publication Date/Year: 2020 Genre: Epic Fantasy Over the past dozen years or so, the term self-published has transformed from a negative connotation to the term “independently published,” which is almost…

Movie Review: 825 Forest Road written & directed by Stephen Cognetti

Going for something a little bit different here, a shift from a post about books to one about movies. Well, one movie in particular. Over the last few years, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the streaming service Shudder, as I may have mentioned. They have a great mix of older horror…

Catching up with the Classics: The Demon Awakens by R.A. Salvatore (DemonWars Volume 1)

Title: The Demon Awakens (DemonWars Volume 1) Author: R.A. Salvatore Publisher: Saga Press Length: 704 Pages (Trade Paperback) Publication Date/Year: 1997 (Original Hardcover) / 2024 (Saga Press Reissue) Genre: Epic Fantasy Sometimes, it is a nice change of pace to go back to a classic, or at least a novel/work…

Countdown to Halloween 2026

It was another big Halloween at SFFWorld, I wound up posting 7 book reviews during October in the lead up to and (in the case of one book) on Halloween. This is my favorite bookish time of year, especially as just over 50% of what I’ve been reading every year…

2025 Reading Year in Review

Once again, the post that truly keeps the Blog o’ Stuff alive, the “Highly Anticipated” annual installment of “What Did Rob Enjoy Reading the Most Last Year?!??!” That’s right folks, for the fourth in a row and 15th year overall, here are the books I enjoyed reading most the previous…