In 2008, when Twilight hit the big screen, vampire stories were everywhere. I was getting pretty sick of them. Even publishers wouldn’t buy vampire books. Yet the vampire legend, like the creatures that people it, refuses to die. The Japanese are just as intrigued with the concept and have produced several vampire series in anime […]
It’s hard to believe, but I launched this blog just over a year ago, in October of 2017. Since then we’ve brought you a plethora of steampunk related reviews and features. In honor of this auspicious occasion, and also to celebrate Halloween, we’re having a FREE promotion of my urban fantasy “Love at Stake,” available […]
Today would be the 209th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president. Though revered as a secular saint in the USA, his legacy is hotly debated among my fellow libertarians. Thus I’ve decided that instead of writing about the historical Lincoln, I’d review the 2012 alternate-history fantasy film Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter which was directed […]
This charming 2009 book by Gail Carriger (pen name of Tofa Borregaard, a more interesting name in my opinion) has an intriguing premise. Its protagonist is a woman with no soul. Unlike Bart’s nightmarish experience on The Simpsons , her lack of a soul doesn’t seem to be a problem. The main effect of her […]
As you can see in the photo, it’s Halloween, that day when Jack Skellington’s brother Pat harnesses up his team of flamingos to bring lots of horrible gifts to all the bad little ghouls and banshees. It’s also time for us to announce the publication of our new short story “Love at Stake” about a […]
What happens when a lonely vampire seeks companionship in the twenty-first century? Bogdan Tomescu has had a long and successful career writing vampire stories from a uniquely personal perspective. Yet happiness eludes him, having lost his beloved wife Magda to a tragic sunshine incident many decades ago. His friend Louie, a jazz musician werewolf, suggests […]
