Tag: books

• Dead Men Naked, Book Review

  Dead Men Naked, a novel by Dario Cannizzaro Review by Bill Ectric Dead Men Naked  is the best novel I’ve read in while, satisfying to the end. All too often, books with supernatural overtones veer into preposterous territory, but not this one. Author Dario Cannizzaro achieves a near-perfect balance of realism and phantasm, humor and…

  Bill Ectric

  July 8, 2017

  Book Reviews, books, Cormac McCarthy, crow mythology, Dario Cannizzaro, Dead Men Naked, death, Dylan Thomas, Grim Reaper, literature, occult, paranormal, tequila

• The Hardest Working Man in Weird Fiction: A Jeff VanderMeer Interview

  This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks on December 19, 2008. In 2018, Paramount pictures will release Annihilation, a film based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, starring Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. In close proximity to primordial Florida swamps, branch-shrouded canopy roads, and Kafkaesque state capital intrigues, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer are Tallahassee’s…

  Bill Ectric

  June 12, 2017

  Annihilation, books, City of Saints and Madmen, Finch, Jeff Vandermeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nabokov, Natalie Portman, Predator, Science Fiction, Vladimir Nabokov, weird fiction, Weird Tales

• A Psychological Drama set in France: Stranger Days by Rachel Kendall

  My book review of Rachel Kendall’s Stranger Days is on Empty Mirror. I’m happy to report that Rachel Kendall does an exceptional job of keeping her novel, Stranger Days, fresh, fun and riveting. Kendall doesn’t shy away from the usual intrigue and romance of Paris, but she does it so well, Stranger Days is a…

  Bill Ectric

  October 14, 2015

  Book Reviews, books, Paris, psychological drama, Rachel Kendall, Stranger Days