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Billy Blue - Nightmare Magazine
CW: abuse, childbirth/pregnancy, unhealthy relationships, violence. Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there . . . The first time she sees the stranger, he’s coming up the stairs. The estate agent grimaces at the “UNDER MAINTENANCE” sign, assures them the lift will soon be in full working order. “What’s down there?” “Oh, just the basement.
The Future (of Literature) is Female — BELLA Media + Co.
The Mysterious Case of The Alperton Angels By Janice Hallett Lovers of true crime will dive head-first into this page-turning cult novel. This story follows true crime journalist Amanda Bailey, who decides to look into the 18-year-old case of the Alperton Angels. This cult became famous for brainwashing a teenage girl to believe that her baby was the anti-Christ, but once the veil lifted and she alerted the police, the rest of the cult committed suicide and the mother and baby duo vanished.
Where the Dead Wait
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Watch Trailer For 'Kung Fu Panda 4' In Theaters Friday, March 8th
Genre: Animated Comedy Adventure Cast: Jack Black, Awkwafina, Viola Davis, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, Ian McShane Ke Huy Quan Director: Mike Mitchell Producer: Rebecca Huntley Co-Director: Stephanie Ma Stine Website: https://www.dreamworks.com/movies/kung-fu-panda Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KungFuPanda Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/KungFuPanda/ #KungFuPanda After three death-defying adventures defeating world-class villains with his unmatched courage and mad...
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Housebroke: A Novel' By Jaci Burton
The book is in stores on Tuesday, December 12th from Berkley. You can purchase a copy at the link. https://amzn.to/3GaTRLS A millionaire and a woman who thinks he’s a house flipper are stuck living in a house together with a menagerie of rescue dogs as roommates, in this heartfelt romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton. After her ex took all their money and bailed, Hazel Bristow is left broke and homeless.
Win A Copy Of 'Roger Corman's The Terror: 60th Anniversary' Blu-ray
The duality of Roger Corman is on display, showcasing his spooky gothic side with The Terror (1963) — marking the 60th anniversary of its release this year — and his more whimsical side with The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) in this double-feature, special-edition, two-disc, collector’s set, on Blu-ray and DVD Dec. 12 from Film Masters.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Where The Dead Wait: A Novel' By Ally Wilkes
William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters. Perhaps this is Day’s chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevens—the man who’s haunted his whole life—back home.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'My Darling Girl: A Novel' By Jennifer McMahon
Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison’s estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother’s alcoholism and violent abuse and is reluctant to unearth these traumatic memories.
A Supernatural Survival Horror Reading List
Have you read Dan Simmons’s The Terror – and are you looking for more reads which combine gruesome survival horror with a creepy supernatural element? Have you been binge-watching Yellowjackets, and looking for something to tide you over until the next season? Well, this just so happens to be my favourite genre, so let’s dive in. Ever since I first watched Alive (1993), the seminal film about a rugby team’s desperate survival in the remote Andes, I’ve been drawn to survival stories.
Death Under a Little Sky
Stig Abell. HarperCollins, $18.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-063381-07-0 Abell (How Britain Really Works), former editor of the Times Literary Supplement, makes his fiction debut with this impressive mystery about a London DI who’s dragged out of early retirement. Det. Insp. Jake Jackson’s uncle Arthur has died, leaving Jackson a large estate in a remote slice of the British countryside, plus enough money to live on without working.
Where the Dead Wait: A Novel|Hardcover
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemption—from the author of the “vivid, immersive” (The Guardian) horror novel All the White Spaces. William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters.
Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll. S&S/Rucci, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5322-8 In this stunning serial killer thriller, bestseller Knoll (Luckiest Girl Alive) uses echoes of Ted Bundy’s real-life crimes to underline potent themes of misogyny and survivor’s guilt. In January 1978, Florida State University student Pamela Schumacher becomes the sole witness when a killer invades her sorority house, murdering two of her friends and disfiguring two others.
Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night
Hannah’s stellar fifth whodunit featuring Agatha Christie’s iconic sleuth (after 2020’s The Killings at Kingfisher Hall) extends her reign as a master of mystery pastiche. In early December 1931, Poirot is preparing for a quiet Christmas alone when Cynthia Catchpool, the mother of Scotland Yard inspector Edward Catchpool, summons both men to solve one murder and prevent another in the small Norfolk town of Munby-on-Sea.
The Orchid Hour
Bilyeau (The Fugitive Colors) paints a vivid portrait of 1923 New York City—particularly its insular Italian community, alluring speakeasies, and Prohibition-fueled organized crime—in this impeccably researched historical mystery. Zia De Luca, a 26-year-old widow, lives a dreary life with her in-laws and young son in Little Italy while working as a translator for a branch of the New York Public Library. Shortly after she’s asked by deputy mayor Miles G.
Where the Dead Wait
Reviews **Praise for ALL THE WHITE SPACES** "Wilkes' grueling epic is uniquely committed to unpacking the sub-genre's chauvinistic myths . . . The novel contains all the gritty, muscular details that makes stories like this so grimly enjoyable, but at the same time, it deconstructs those very same tropes. The inclusion of various queer identities is a masterstroke.
Six Snowy Reads for Winter — Zibby Mag | The Literary Lifestyle Destinatio
Winter doesn’t truly start for me until it snows. Growing up in the Midwest, we usually got our first big snowfall in December, and every day after had the potential to be a snow day (the best days of the year). Snowfalls seem to be lighter and later than they were when I was a kid, which makes each one even more important. While I wait for a blizzard in Brooklyn, I turn to these six snowy memoirs and novels that remind me how vital it is to protect our coldest countries.
Review: All the White Spaces
By Ally Wilkes Titan, out now After his brothers die in the Great War, Jonathan Morgan is determined to fulfil their dream of going to Antarctica… This fusion of alternate history (inasmuch as there’s no Shackleton or others in this version of events), survivalist horror and supernatural terror is very much a slow burn, at least in its first third, as we get to know Jonathan – a trans man in a society where he has found it impossible to be true to himself – and the crew of the Fortitude.
FIVE THINGS THAT INSPIRED ALL THE WHITE SPACES
I think there’s always something special about a debut novel: it’s usually the culmination of a long, long period of work, hair-tearing, sleepless nights, failures, disappointments… and, waiting in the wings, the desire to show who you are as a writer. What makes you tick? In All The White Spaces, I unashamedly put together some of my favourite preoccupations: survival horror, supernatural horror, and how we act in extremis. Here are some of the things which went into the melting pot.
Encounters with the Supernatural in Antarctica: A Brief History
I’m never really sure whether I believe in ghosts. Despite growing up in some seriously spooky and remote old houses, I’ve never actually seen anything: no figures in white sheets, no women in suspiciously generic period costume. However, particularly when alone, I’ve felt—well, something. The sense of a presence. The idea that you’re not actually alone; that something unseen is with you. Other people, of course, might experience this as the presence of the divine.
8 Stories Set in Antarctica About Identity and Transformation
I’ve always been intensely fascinated by Antarctica: the huge white continent at the bottom of the globe which is the coldest, windiest and driest place on Earth. It inspires a sort of horror vacui, a fear of all-encompassing isolation and whiteness that might find its place in a Herman Melville novel. My debut novel, All The White Spaces, uses the eerie nature of the continent as the perfect backdrop for a story about loss, trauma, and personal identity.
The H Word: “What . . . is this place?”
The appeal of horror set “out there” When I’m watching a horror film, I always know something good is coming when we step off the beaten path. We might be campers who trudge through the snow to a nearby cabin, going to push the door only to find that it creaks open of its own accord, revealing bad taxidermy and dangling fetishes which look disturbingly like they’ve been made from human teeth.
Home > Books > Book Review: ‘All The White Spaces: A Novel’ By Ally Wilkes RedCarpetCrash February 28, 20222022-02-28T03:43:11-06:002022-02-28T05:29:30-06:00 The year is 1919 and for Jonathan Majors it’s a tough time. The first World War is over and his two brothers didn’t make it. He decides that he’s going to do something in their honor, something they wanted to do. He sneaks aboard a ship, with his friend Harry, that’s heading to Antartica on a mission. He hides away but is soon found.
All the White Spaces: A Novel|Hardcover
Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition in this haunting and spellbinding historical horror novel, perfect for fans of Dan Simmons’s The Terror and Alma Katsu’s The Hunger. In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men.
All the White Spaces
Description In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James “Australis” Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self—and true gender—and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt, and mistrust skulk among the explorers.
All the White Spaces
“ALL THE WHITE SPACES is a heady and haunting mix of historical fiction, polar survival horror, and a meditation on gender, identity, and the enduring mysteries of the self.
Where Things Fall from the Sky
Spitzbergen, 1881. The whaling station stinks, metallic and rank, even though it’s slap-you-in-the-face cold. David Grace—born and raised in the Welsh valleys—had thought he’d known cold. A thin layer of ice on milk left out overnight, his sisters tracing patterns in the frost on the bedroom windows. But the last few weeks in the Arctic seas have taken him somewhere entirely different. Up here, the cold gets into a man’s bones.
A Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs review
A Lush and Seething Hell brings together – in The Sea Dreams It Is The Sky and My Heart Struck Sorrow – two very different novellas located within the “found history” tradition. “I am fucking jealous as fuck of John Hornor Jacobs” – Chuck Wendig, foreword Buy the book The foreword – in which Wendig heaps praise on Jacobs – is a bold way to open a book. However, within a few pages, I found this praise was justified.
Polar Horror: Fact and Fiction (Nineworlds 2018 talk write-up)
Hi! I’m Ally Wilkes, aka @UnheimlichManvr (trust me, I had a lot of thoughts on how to make my Twitter handle even harder to spell), and this is a write-up of my half of the “Polar Horror: Fact and Fiction” talk I gave with Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) at Nineworlds 2018.
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