Monthly Archives: January 2024

Edgar Rice Burroughs – The People That Time Forgot (1918) & Out of Time’s Abyss (1918)

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

You know, there was a time when lost world stories were a dime a dozen. Especially around the turn of the century, the 19th going into the 20th. The Age of Exploration was already past its peak for 200 years, … Continue reading →

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Michael Cisco – Animal Money (2015) Review

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 I have something special to talk about with you today. An 800 page tome of batshit insanity, published once upon a time by the now defunct Lazy Fascist Press (also the springboard for Stephen Graham Jones). Author Michael Cisco … Continue reading →

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Three Graphic Novel Biographies: Lugosi, The Twilight Man & Hedy Lamarr

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

All three of these biographies concern famous entertainers from bygone years in Hollywood. All three are part of the Life Drawn series of comics by publisher Humanoids. They are each around 180 pages long. Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of … Continue reading →

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Junji Ito – Tomie (2001) Review

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 This may come as a surprise, but I am not an immortal succubus. I do not know their life cycle. I do not know what keeps them up at night (well, actually if you are a succubus… but I … Continue reading →

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Guy Gavriel Kay – Sailing to Sarantium (1998) Review

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Let us go back to the little visited Byzantine Empire, to the 6th century and age of Emperor Justinian I. This is the setting of Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Sarantine Mosaic, a duology of which Sailing to Sarantium (1998) … Continue reading →

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K.J. Parker – Under My Skin (2023) Review

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 A fantastic collection of novellas and novelettes, highly compelling and entertaining. Most of them were written between 2017 and 2023, and four novellas have been published separately before by Tor or Subterranean Press. I am incredibly impressed with Parker’s … Continue reading →

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The Dawn of Everything (2021), by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Review)

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

I was in doubt whether I should read this book. Besides the enormous amount of praise it has garnered, I am aware of accusations that the authors have embellished their story by drawing conclusions from papers which those papers didn’t really … Continue reading →

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