INSPECTION By Josh Malerman Is An Unremitting Classic
INSPECTION by Josh Malerman is an unremitting classic, as is the signed limited edition of the novel by Earthling Publications. The thing about INSPECTION that is so unnerving is that it is entirely plausible. The main character J is one of twenty-six twenty-four...
A Sleight Of Shadows By Kat Howard Ups The Ante
A Sleight Of Shadows By Kat Howard ups the ante, as the fate of magic and the many lives surrounding it are in grave peril. The magic is fighting back! A Sleight Of Shadows is the exciting second book in the Unseen World Series and the follow-up to Kat Howard’s...
An Unkindness of Magicians By Kat Howard Stands Apart
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard stands apart, as the first book in The Unseen World series this thrilling journey to the shadowy heart of magic and the magicians who wield such powers in New York City is unparalleled. The realm of the Unseen World reveals...
The Hunter By Julia Leigh: A Worthwhile Read
The Hunter by Julia Leigh: a worthwhile read. Okay wow. I loved this book. This Australian author plows through the gate like a powerful young mare with her debut novel set in the rugged wilderness of Tasmania. The premise is mysterious and intriguing right off the...
Gothic By Philip Fracassi-Beware Of The Madness Within
Gothic by Philip Fracassi - beware of the madness within these pages, because it may unravel your soul. There are few books that come along – and I usually read many books at once – that demand all of my attention, and I cannot put them down, and Gothic by Philip...
The Monster on Mulligans Hollow by Patrick Reuman Book Review
The Monster on Mulligans Hollow by Patrick Reuman Book Review: this is the first book in the Creepy Little Nightmares series by Wicked House Publishing. Patrick Reuman, author and founder of Wicked House Publishing, wrote this novel for his son, Aidan, who had been...
Upgrade By Blake Crouch: A Thrilling Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Upgrade by Blake Crouch: a thrilling sci-fi masterpiece details a near future where examining what it is to be human is vital for survival. In Upgrade, the writing flows smoothly and efficiently as the story hits the reader impactfully. The world building, character...
The Chain by Adrian McKinty is Electrifying!
The Chain by Adrian McKinty is Electrifying! When I stumbled upon Adrian McKinty’s The Chain in the bookstore, I picked it up with mild interest. When I read the engrossing blurb from Stephen King on the cover, mild interest blossomed into moderate intrigue. I had...
Nat Cassidy’s Mary: An Awakening of Terror
Nat Cassidy's Mary: An Awakening of Terror - After losing her job in New York, a chance call brings Mary back to her hometown to take care of her sick aunt Nadine. However, this is not a welcome change of pace as Mary has been suffering in silence from ghastly visions...
The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman A+ Areté Editions
The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman A+ Areté Editions deliver the seminal follow-up to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes tale, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” and both the Neil Gaiman novella and the letterpress treatment of the stories by...
Dissonant Harmonies Book Review
Dissonant Harmonies Book Review: For Dissonant Harmonies, Bev Vincent and Brian Keene come together for a unique concept on their novella published by Cemetery Dance. It is, in fact, two novellas – one written by each author to a playlist selected by the other. Both...
Barbara Comyns’ Who has Changed and Who has Died (1954)
Barbara Comyns' Who has Changed and Who has Died (1954) - Misery and Malice in a Small Village - The Willoweed family life is defined by misery made worse under the scrupulous eye of an embittered matriarch, Grandma Willoweed. The cranky and controlling woman holds...
Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream (2014) Floating In and Out of Suffering
Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream (2014) Floating In and Out of Suffering; told through an experimental narrative, a young mother on the verge of death is visited by the voice of a young boy asking to scan her memories, to find when the 'worms' first appeared. Spoiler...
Dancing with the Tombstones is a delicious anthology of short stories
Dancing with the Tombstones is a delicious anthology of short stories, and I had the opportunity to review the latest book written by Mark Aronovitz and published by Cemetery Dance compiled during the COVID-19 lockdown of short stories that could be easily described...
361 By Donald E. Westlake: Unique, Hard-Hitting Brilliance
361 By Donald E. Westlake: unique, hard-hitting brilliance brings hard-boiled gritty noir down an alley that you cannot leave until the book is done. Hard Case Crime thankfully brings many treasures like 361 back to the forefront of fiction on today’s market....
Hye-Young Pyun’s The Hole (2017) – Trapped in Ones Mind
After a car crash, Ogi awakens to find himself barely alive, caught in a vegetative state unable to communicate or move. After learning from the doctors that his wife did not survive the crash his sole surviving family member, his mother-in-law, begins to take care of...
Dune & Frank Herbert Immortalized By Centipede Press
Dune & Frank Herbert immortalized by Centipede Press in a limited edition that creates a uniquely bold, intricate, imaginative, and sharp book, a true work of art – illustrated by Mark Molnar – befitting a masterpiece that is one of the greatest science-fiction...
Jean-Luc & Anna Lise by A.G. Cullen Book Review
Jean-Luc & Anna Lise by A.G. Cullen Book Review Written By Lisa Lebel Jean Luc & Anna Lise : A Novel of The Napoleonic Wars, by A.G. Cullen is a harrowing tale following three main characters through the harsh realities of the French Revolution. The following...
Ha Seong-Nan’s Bluebeard’s First Wife: 11 Tales of Everyday Sorrow
Ha Seong-Nan's Bluebeard's First Wife: 11 Tales of Everyday Sorrow: selected as on of the top ten books of 2020 in Publishers Weekly, Ha Seong-nan's "Bluebeard's First Wife" is the second collection of stories from the South Korean Author to be translated to English....
Gwendy’s Final Task Soars! A Spoiler Free Book Review
Gwendy’s Final Task Soars! A Spoiler Free Book Review examines the latest in the Gwendy trilogy, Gwendy’s Final Task, coauthored by bestselling authors Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. Spectacular and moving … there’s just no one like Gwendy. This is a SPOILER-FREE**...
Richard Chizmar’s Gwendy’s Magic Feather Forwards An Odyssey
Richard Chizmar’s Gwendy’s Magic Feather forwards an odyssey undertaken by Gwendy who was just twelve when she was made caretaker of a device that impacted her world and ours: it was the rewarding, dangerous and beguiling Button Box. Gwendy’s Magic Feather is the...
Karel Capek’s The Absolute at Large (1922) – God is in the Machine
Karel Capek's The Absolute at Large (1922) - God is in the Machine: Capek may not be a name everyone is familiar with, but his inclusion into science fiction is undeniable with his introduction of the word 'robot' into common language through his 1920 play R.U.R. Yet,...
Philip K. Dick’s The Cosmic Puppets Via Centipede Press Wows
Philip K. Dick’s The Cosmic Puppets via Centipede Press Wows, and I mean Wows with a great limited edition of a fantastic book! Philip K. Dick is an inspiration of mine, and I have only perused a healthy percentage of his prolific body of work...so far. There is no...
Suntup Epitomizes Johnny Got His Gun By Dalton Trumbo
Suntup epitomizes Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo with fine press editions and artwork that emanate the true anti-war classic novel from 1939. The Following Preview Review of Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo and the Suntup Editions limiteds is *Spoiler Free It...
Orlo’s Trouble: A New Heartwarming Children’s Holiday Tale
Orlo’s Trouble: a new heartwarming children’s holiday tale by Gertrude Stonesifer and Dr. Amy Broemmel and illustrated by Jim Diehr truly crafts a remarkable Christmas story. This old but cheery Orlo is one of Santa’s elves and has a story of his own to tell. What I...
Earthling Halloween: Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
Earthling Halloween: Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi is the fine press pick for the holiday this year, as a horrific The Exorcist meets Lord of The Flies story occurs at the St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys in rural Pennsylvania. There is a fun unnerving other...
Night Tastings By Bervi Adams: 19th Century Russian Vampires
Night Tastings by Bervi Adams: 19th Century Russian vampires seize the lives of a lower-level aristocrat named Nikolai and his love, Tatianya, as they voyage to Mardi Gras and Napa Valley and beyond to escape their doom! This is a Spoiler Free** book review of Night...
Bird Box By Josh Malerman Shatters Minds With SST Brilliance
Bird Box by Josh Malerman shatters minds with SST brilliance, as the author’s 2014 debut novel rattles all senses with the riveting tale like no other, so too, does SST Publications craft a signed limited numbered edition that is reminiscent of the book’s world, sharp...
Final Quarter Announcement Schedule For The Forgotten Fiction
Final Quarter Announcement Schedule For The Forgotten Fiction: here it is folks, news, news, and all the fun coming to TFF to close out the year with a BANG! For those of you wondering, there are many new writers coming on for guest posts, including authors like Tom...
Chasing the Boogeyman: Richard Chizmar Births A New Genre
Chasing the Boogeyman: Richard Chizmar births a new genre, and though many great authors have and continue to work off of and dwell in the horror-crime-thriller realm, this novel is wonderfully different. Rumor has it that the Richard’s small town serial killer may be...
The Exorcist By Blatty S/L By Suntup, Lonely Road & Gauntlet
The Exorcist By Blatty S/L by Suntup, Lonely Road & Gauntlet fine presses provides one of the world’s most terrifying and thrilling novels an exceptional book reading experience. The Exorcist By William Peter Blatty is an all-time great work of fiction. This...
Crackle and Fire: An Angela Hardwicke Mystery By Russ Colchamiro
Crackle and Fire: An Angela Hardwicke Mystery by Russ Colchamiro combines compelling characters with noir-mystery and sci-fi tropes and blasts them into exciting new territory. What is the audience for this work of speculative fiction? This is from the book’s...
Ghost In The Shell Vol-1 By Masamune Shirow Is Incredible
"Ghost In The Shell Vol-1 By Masamune Shirow Is Incredible" was first published on POWkabamcomics.com.*** ***I thought it would be cool to feature this great work of fiction on TFF, as it appears on her sister site, POWkabam; typically we will keep comics on there and...
Replay By Ken Grimwood: Suntup Editions Replay Suntup Replay
Replay By Ken Grimwood: Suntup Editions Replay Suntup Replay, and as this time travel tale goes on, the suspenseful, metaphysical, time-mind warp grips the reader’s heart tighter and tighter. This is a Spoiler-Free** Preview Review of the upcoming Suntup Editions for...
Ania Ahlborn’s The Devil Crept In Is Horrifyingly Real
Ania Ahlborn’s The Devil Crept In is horrifyingly real and frightening enough to make readers avoid rural Oregon, or woods in general, for that matter. I jest about the woods as I look at my own patch of dark trees in the yard at twilight and cannot help but worry...
The Last House On Needless Street By Catriona Ward Unnerves
The Last House On Needless Street by Catriona Ward unnerves! This Preview Review of the upcoming novel The Last House On Needless Street by Catriona Ward that is being released in the US by TOR on 9/28/2021 is **SPOILER FREE**. You will never read another book quite...
H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau’s 125th By Suntup
H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau’s 125th By Suntup Editions is celebrating the shocking and classic work of early horror and science-fiction in deservedly grandiose fashion 125 years after its initial release. To say the art, designs, bonus content give this...
After Origin By Dan Brown I Can’t Wait For Robert Langdon #6
After Origin By Dan Brown I Can’t Wait For Robert Langdon #6, because unlike every other installment in the Langdon series, Origin did not sit well. The payoff was not enough this time. The character that became a modern-day Sherlock Holmes in Angels and Demons,...
Dark Across The Bay By Ania Ahlborn Coming From Earthling
Dark Across The Bay By Ania Ahlborn Coming From Earthling Publications in a S/L edition befitting the thrilling new novel. The Following TFF Preview Review Will Only Contain **Mild Spoilers** To The Initial Plot Of The Book’s Opening. Best-selling author Ania Ahlborn...
Cemetery Dance Limited Edition AGE NIGHT SHIFT By Stephen King
Cemetery Dance Limited Edition AGE Night Shift By Stephen King is a deserving fine press production of the author’s first collection of short stories, and there are two added bonus shorts included that were not published by the Doubleday edition! The short stories are...
Book Review: Timeline By Michael Crichton 5/5 Stars
Book Review: Timeline By Michael Crichton 5/5 Stars; leave it to Crichton to revitalize the past with such a vigorous and entertaining novel and a possible prescience for the infinite possibilities of science. Timeline carries the reader into a realm of unexpected...
For Readers Who Struggled: The Catcher in the Rye Book Review
For Readers Who Struggled: The Catcher in the Rye Book Review of J.D. Salinger’s classic. This review is aimed for readers who struggled to understand this novel. I hope you can see my perspective and that maybe you will give this novel another try so that you can...
Upcoming Suntup S/L’s: The Silence Of The Lambs & The Wolfen
Suntup’s upcoming S/L: The Silence Of The Lambs & The Wolfen, signed by Thomas Harris and Whitley Strieber, respectively, highlight genre-defining literary moments with moving art and a design tone that make each of the books’ three editions stand apart. This is a...
The Forgotten Fiction ANNOUNCEMENT SCHEDULE 3-2021 To 8-2021
The Forgotten Fiction ANNOUNCEMENT SCHEDULE 3-2021 To 6-2021: we are going keep TFF’s Eager Readers up to snuff with all of the happenings, from book reviews, to guest reviewers, to giveaway contests, to Rune Works reader-inspired creations. BIG THINGS Coming To TFF!...
The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick Explores Mutants Hunted
“The Golden Man” by Philip K. Dick explores mutants hunted in a long short story, or short novella, from 1954, long before Stan Lee’s X-Men emerged! It is set in a post-apocalyptic world where atomic radiation has produced mutated human beings. A government task force...
One of Us: A Tribute to Frank Michaels Errington – A+ Horror
One of Us: A Tribute to Frank Michaels Errington - A+ Horror fills a massive anthology featuring Stephen King, Richard Chizmar, Tom Deady, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, and so many more. This tome is 556 pages of knuckle splitting, page turning, scares. And all the...
Amaranthine Books Incredulous Limited Dracula By Bram Stoker
Amaranthine Books incredulous limited Dracula by Bram Stoker is truly dark, richly lavish, and bloodily grim in all the right ways. Dracula is one of the first ever books to be considered a novel, one of the foundational chilling books of horror, and birthed an entire...
Easy Go By John Lange (Michael Crichton) A 4/5 Star Adventure
Easy Go By John Lange (Michael Crichton) A 4/5 Star Adventure is a Spoiler-free Book Review. Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. If you found a hidden message deciphered from hieroglyphics would you dispatch a treasure hunt? How...
Suntup Reforges A Classic In The Auctioneer By Joan Samson
Suntup reforges a classic in The Auctioneer by Joan Samson, the 1975 novel that sold over a million copies, went out of print for nearly forty years, and returned to trade publication in 2018. The Auctioneer is a chilling tale of suspense and a literary masterpiece,...
Chuck Palahniuk: THE INVENTION OF SOUND Loudly Grips Readers
Chuck Palahniuk: THE INVENTION OF SOUND loudly grips readers in the author’s newest thrilling and genre-defying resonation. What a premise: A father's decades-long search for his missing daughter. A young woman about to engineer the perfect scream. The most dangerous...
Artemis Fowl Is A Great Place To Get Lost Into Another World
“Artemis Fowl is a great place to get lost into another world” Book Review Contains **SPOILERS. Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer is the first in a line of an action-packed, technology-meets-fantasy best-selling children series of books. The protagonist Artemis – a charming...
The Andromeda Evolution: Crichton’s Andromeda Strain Sequel
The Andromeda Evolution: Crichton’s Andromeda Strain sequel, terrifying sequel, has arrived as Daniel H. Wilson finished the late author’s manuscript with the support of the Michael Crichton’s family. And this begs the question: just how many more Michael Crichton...
Suntup Editions Immortalize I AM LEGEND By Richard Matheson
Suntup Editions immortalize I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson with three incredible limited editions and an I AM LEGEND Fine Art Print featuring the same Stanley Meltzoff cover art that was on the Gold Medal Books first edition of the book in 1954. Oh, the horror! To be...
The Long Walk By Richard Bachman (Stephen King) Book Review
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) Book Review takes a look at the first novel Stephen King is said to have ever written, while in college, and was not published until 1979 under the penname of Richard Bachman. Walking the edge of The Long Walk, as a...
I, ROBOT By Isaac Asimov: Book Review Of Science Fiction Classic
I, ROBOT by Isaac Asimov: book review of science fiction classic highlights the prose, storytelling, and stark differences in views regarding this premiere work about robots and AI, aka artificial intelligence. In Asimov’s I, Robot, Dr. Susan Calvin (robo-pyschologist...
Hard Case Crime’s QUARRY By Max Allan Collins Hits Hard
Hard Case Crime’s QUARRY by Max Allan Collins hits hard, and that is whether you use the large paperback to ‘interrogate,’ or merely to read the first brilliant tale of the assassin Quarry. Max Allan Collins is the author of The Road To Perdition, and has many...
Book Review: MICRO By Michael Crichton & Richard Preston WOWs
Book Review: Micro By Michael Crichton & Richard Preston WOWs, as young upcoming grad students find themselves heading to Hawaii in pursuit of cutting-edge careers in microbiology a whole new world is opened up to them on the wake of a murder investigation. The...
Ania Ahlborn’s Brother Astounds In Limited Suntup Editions
Ania Ahlborn’s Brother astounds in limited Suntup Editions, and both the visceral, chilling work of horror and the incredible physical manifestation of the book from Suntup are reviewed here. A short summation of the book review of Brother is that it is a brilliant...
Book Review The Gap: Fort Indiantown By John Witherow Soars
Book Review The Gap: Fort Indiantown by John Witherow soars to extraordinary heights as an impactful work of historical fiction. The Gap: Fort Indiantown is a visceral tale invoking the love of flying helicopters and the sense of life’s adventure pitted against the...
Book Review: The Institute Is One Of Stephen King’s Best
Book Review: The Institute is one of Stephen King’s best, and that is saying something among the 60+ novels and myriad works of art he has created. Choosing a novel for the inaugural The Forgotten Fiction book review was tough. But The Institute by Stephen King is...