[A]n atmospheric and complex supernatural thriller, with an old-time Hollywood frame, and it steadily builds to a frenetic climax.
Time Travel is high on our Wish List of Impossible Things. Granted, we’re thinking of the sort of time travel you see on Doctor Who: the ability to freely travel to just about any point in time (or space), as the spirit wills us. Pull a lever, visit the end of the universe. Push a button, pop into […]
Tim Powers is the author to turn to if you want to uncover the secret history beneath the truths you think you know. In fiction, a secret history is something like an alternate history, picking the threads of real historical events and spinning them into grand tapestries of conspiracy—all the accepted reasons for any given […]
There’s something primal about a haunted house story—stories in which a structure that’s supposed to shelter you turns against you. It’s a trope that we keep returning to—this week, Netflix launched a new series based on the classic Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House, and the results are truly terrifying (if at a bit […]
This week’s new releases take us to parallel worlds, dive into dreamland, and tramp through the jungles of steampunk India. What looks good to you?