Behind Blue Eyes

Dreaming City This is my latest review at GdM, for the music album by Glass Hammer

All Hail the Popcorn King This is my latest review at GdM, for the documentary about Joe R. Lansdale

Crisis of Fate by Jesse Teller My rating: 4 of 5 stars Review now live, at Grimdark Magazine Crisis of Fate is the latest book from Jesse Teller, who seems to have a knack for telling character-driven tales set in a world that's often brutal and unforgiving. Perilisc isn't a land for the fragile, that's for sure. While a standalone story at its foundation, Crisis of Fate also serves as a companion novel to the Madness Wars series, the events of the story occurring after the first book in the main series. Raendal is having a bad day. Her lover was murdered while having sex with her during a dream rendezvous, her thieves guild is being subverted against her by treason from those she most trusted, an army bent on destruction is on its way to her city, and she can't sleep for fear of reliving the nightmare of the murder in her bed chambers. What to do? Well, of course Raendal wants revenge. She'd like nothing more than to find and

Black Stone Heart by Michael R. Fletcher My rating: 4 of 5 stars Review now live at Grimdark Magazine Black Stone Heart is the latest grimdark novel by Michael R. Fletcher. This is a brand-new series, The Obsidian Path , which is set in a bizarre new world unlike those of Fletcher’s other work. There were a couple of stories in A Collection of Obsessions , his short story collection, but this is the first full length novel. As with all of Fletcher’s work, Black Stone Heart does not shy away from a steady diet of comfort food for the grimdark appetite. His recipe is equal parts violence, gritty happenings, grisly humor, and a dash of bad luck for flavoring. Khraen just woke up, and he’s starving. He’s confused and disoriented and doesn’t remember much at all of his life before he’d been killed. All he knows now is that he is being drawn to the fragments of his obsidian heart that have been scattered about the world by whoever it was that murdered hi