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Gallowglass - Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell), Harmony Books, 1990 - 1st American edition   Before launching into my review of Gallowglass , I w...

Dark Dance (Bloof Opera I), by Tanith Lee, 1992, Macdonald & Co Cover Art: uncredited   Tanith Lee has come up in a number of my Goodrea...

The Killing Doll, first released in 1984, showcases Rendell's tremendous talent as a writer of psychological suspense, and being the f...

I am not entirely sure when exactly I started toying with the idea of creating a reading list for popular German fantasy fiction published...

It's 1963, it's Halloween and in a secluded backwater somewhere in the US teenage boys are being starved by their parents and lo...

As can be expected from the first book of a series,  Lady of Light  sets the scene and introduces the reader to the main protagonists of P...

An extremely short novella and initially released in 1958 in one of the pulp magazines, The Planet Savers is understood to be the first ...

My first venture into the literary world of Amy Cross. It was a bizarre ride.  Cross appears to be an author with a prolific digital o...

Diligently working my way through all the unread books on my shelf, I finished Disordered Minds by Minette Walters a couple of weeks ago...

I must admit I decided to read The Rowan for two reasons. Firstly, I had never read anything by McCaffrey and secondly, judging by the cur...