 '13 Views of the Suicide Woods' collects Bracken MacLeod's shorter works into a formidable collection of varied treats. His novel 'Stranded', released last year was amongst my favourite books. I perhaps don't read as many novels as I do short story collections, novellas and anthologies, but when I do and they are as engrossing as 'Stranded' then I am a happy reader. This collection represents a fine account and progression of a writer that is on an upward trajectory in the field of dark fiction.
REVIEWED BY JOE YOUNG The English translation of the Icelandic writer Vladimar Ásmundsson’s Makt Myrkranna. By Hans Corneel De Roos. Foreword by Dacre Stoker. Afterword by John Edgar Browning. Published by Overlook Duckworth/Peter Mayer Publishers. DRACULA.It’s one of those names which automatically fills in its own back-story. In 1897 Bram Stoker created what has turned out to be a phenomenon, a 19th Century horror novel which is still enjoying global popularity in the 21st Century and will most probably still be entertaining people for centuries to come. It is as seemingly immortal and indestructible as the Count himself.
I’d say it’s a fair bet that there will be very few locations and very few peoples globally who are unfamiliar with at least some aspect of the Dracula legend, either of Vlad Tepes or Stoker’s creation, or indeed of vampires in general, so it could be fair to say that it’s all a bit commonplace. Regardless of the saturation, when the word was put out at the Ginger Nuts of Horror that there was an ‘alternative version’ of Dracula coming up for review I pounced on it hungrily. Here’s why: YOU DON'T BELONG HERE BY TIM MAJOR
1/3/2017
 Time Travel sounds like fun, well that's what most people think before they embark on a jaunt through the timelines. Jump back in time and accidentally step on a flower and what do you know, a half-mad celeb is in charge of the US. Go forward in time and run the risk of being captured by a race of underground dwelling troglodytes. Trust me time travel is not a good idea, and no matter what the face changing so called Dr tells you don't do it.
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