Welcome to Ghost Month on Fantasy Reads. This October I’m recommending From Out of the Silence: Seven Stange Stories (1920). This is the only published collection of stories by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor (1869?-1922), a rather mysterious British author whom I find as haunting as her fiction. It has been republished in paperback and ebook formats by… Continue reading
For this coronation month I’m recommending Miss Sharp’s Monsters, a trilogy by Australian author Suzannah Rowntree which has an unusual take on Europe’s royal families. The series begins with The Werewolf of Whitechapel, continues with Anarchist on the Orient Express and comes to a dramatic conclusion in A Vampire in Bavaria. All three volumes were… Continue reading
This month I’m catching-up with two Fantasy series whose leading characters each endure a long journey from anti-hero to hero. Curiously, one thing these two characters have in common is an ability to befriend giant female spiders. In spite of my own dread of spiders, these are both series which have kept me enthralled until… Continue reading