I came across My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon in Strand Books. It’s always nice to pick up an anthology as they tend to be easy reads. As a big fan of The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, his story “Heorot”about a kidnapped newlywed woman from an beer festival was enough reason to buy. His story brings back Miss Gard, a mysterious supernatural who consults for the kingpin of Chicago. I always liked her, so was fun to see them momentarily join forces and learn a tiny […]
The demon that refuses to be exorcised
The Naming of the Beasts is where all of Felix ‘Fix’ Castor’s past mistakes come back to bite him in the ass. Since book 1, Rafi Ditko has been a prisoner in his own body with a nasty demon named Asmodeus stuck inside him. Fix tried to exorcise the demon, but things went awry and Asmodeus and Rafi became permanently interwined in his body. Felix has been trying for years to find the proper tune to whistle away the demon without killing Rafi. In the interim, Rafi/Asmodeus […]
Walk this way, so I can stab you in the head.
While I like them both, I prefer the Walking Dead show to the comics. How about you?
Engrossing and then terrifying
Yes, I know I know. I should just re-title my blog “I Read A Lot of Stephen King”. But he’s been my go-to author for nearly thirty years and given that he had a brush with death fifteen years ago now and toyed with retiring twelve years ago, so any new book from him is a cause for me to skip about and click my heels. That this is his second book of the year and there is another on the horizon already for next […]