Tuesday, 14 January 2020

RPG Reviews

Falconloft
Elderscrolls - call to arms
Escape from Helgen
ES: Quest

Santouche/Christopher Martel - Autophagia
Aspirations
Fear's Sharp Little Needles

Seth -
Star Trek - Gamma Quadrant
Star Trek - Delta Quadrant
Infinity - Mercs
Conan the Adventurer
Conan the Scout
Infinity (4 addons)
Conan the King

Yannick - Nibiru RPG
Nibiru scenarios

Rick Hudson - ?
Black Void


Material sitting on:

Warhammer - Enemy Within 4th Ed
Warhammer - Rough Nights
Stygian - A Life Worth Living
Stygian - Hudson and Brand - Inquiry Agents of the Obscure
Stygian - the Book of Contemporary Magical Places


Thursday, 20 June 2013

Currently Under Review


Carmelo Refala

Seth Stauffer

Star Trek Adventures Compendium 2

Steve Lockley

Something wicked this way comes

Margaret Williams

The Nokka by KK Nikolaou
Kingshold by DP Woollinscroft

Tracy Selby



Suzie Wilde


  • The Book of the Sea Ed Mark Beech

Ann Mair

  • Real World by Roy Hewitson
  • The Spark by Trevor Stubbs
  • Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold
  • Faces of Villain by Zachary Yaple
  • Something to tell you by David Edwards

Helen Scott
  • Podric Moon by Barney Broom
  • Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
  • The Twins of Moon by Frank P Ryan
  • None So Blind by Xenon
  • A God in the Shed by JF Dubeau
  • Boy in the Box by Marc E Fitch (March/April)
  • Vulcan's forge by Robert Mitchell Evans (March /April)
  • The Heron Kings by Eric Lewis (March/April)
  • The wise friend by Ramsey Campbell (March/April)
  • Alternative Afterlives by Christopher Fielden

Gareth Spark



Gary Budgen
  • The Rimini-Ferrara Line by Brendan Connell
  • Sangria in the Sangraal
  • Theakers Quarterly fiction 62
  • Unsplatterpunk! 2 Ed by Douglas J Ogurek
  • Incident at FiveHundred Acre Wood by Caractacus Plume
  • The book of Flowering  An Anthology

Stephen Theaker
  • James Cawthorn : The man and his art
  • Four-sided triangle by William F Temple
  • Grim, Grit and Gasoline byRhonda Parrish
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin (Folio Society edition) 
    The Last Ghost by Marie Regan
    The Forgotten and the Fantastical 5 Ed Teika Bellamy
    The Clockworm by Karen Heuler

Rick Hudson


  • Interzone 274
  • Black Static62

Tony Cowin



Ritchie Smith


Dave Jeffery
  • the time machine/Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells (Folio Society)
  • Deeper, Darker Things and Other Oddities’ by Steve Dillon

Pauline Morgan
  • Fictional Alignment by Mike French
  • Blood of the Four by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
  • Resonance and Revolt by Rosanne Rabinowitz
  • The Girl in the Abbey by Jessica Collett
  • The Darkest of Nights by Charles Eric Maine
  • The Controllers by Paul Kane
  • Menace of the Machine Ed by Mike Ashley
  • The End of the World Ed by Mike Ashley
  • ·         Beyond Time-Classic tales of Time Unwound Ed Mike Ashley
  • ·         Menace of the Monster Ed by Mike Ashley
    ·         The Way Things End by Charles David (Tartarus Hardback)
    ·         Murmured in Dreams by Stephen Bacon
Alex Bradshaw Leaving as of July 2018 but still submitting


  • Ley Ryders by Holly J Williams
  • Chrysalis by Gary Budgen (Chapbook)
  • Theakers Quarterly 57
  • Arcanum: An Irish Mystery by Ann Mann
  • On Spec 103
  • and nobody lived happily ever after by Kate Farrell
  • The Curse Of Tutankhset And The Light Fingered Jack By Simon Smith 

Sandra Unerman


Shona Kinsella
  • Border Monkeys by Tharun Chelley


Nigel Wilson
  • Aldoran Chronicles , The White Tower and Plague of Shadows by Michael Wisehart
  • To Tame the Sentry Being
  • 10 days of freedom by Maurice Powell
  • The Absolved by Matthew Binder
  • Star Matters by David John West
  • The Coronation by Justin Newland
  • The Lost War by Justin Le Anderson
  • Echoes War by Cheryl Campbell
  • Legacy of Crystal Island by Colleen O'Flaherty-Hilder
  • The Stolen Planet by Pearl Denham
  • And the house lights dim by Tim Major



Allen Stroud

Nitrospective By Andrew Hook


Vicky Garlick

  • Into the Dark by Andrew Jennings
  • Grendel by Caractacus Plume
  • Deathline by Sean Hogan
  • Tintagel by Ray J Newell
  • Jackson King and the Morpher's Heart
  • Equilibrium by Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson
  • The Book Club by Alan Baxtet
  • Limbus Inc Book 3 Ed Brett J Talley
  • Aalots revenge by MH Shakir

Brian Ennis

Dragon Brigade: The Affair of the Orb Adventure
Cortex Plus Hacker's Guide
D&d Dungeon Masters Screen
D&D Monster Manual
D&D Princes of the Apocolypse
Testament by Hal Duncan

Simon Ives

Brutal Pantomimes by Rhys Hughes

  • Crimewave 13 (TTA)
  • Interzone 275


Rhianna Sharp

The Demon's Call by Kim Gravell


Stuart Douglas

The Devils of Amber Street by Paul Starkey
  • In no time at all by NA Millington
  • Downtimers by PJ Hammond


David Riley

Written in Darkness by Mark Samuels


Ian O'reilly(ianink)

What makes this book so great? by Jo Walton
Interlands by Vincent O'Neill
The Eighth Court By Mike Shevdon

Sandra Scholes(awaiting registration)
  • 12 Tales Lie 1 tells True
  • The Question Mark by Muriel Jaeger
  • The Vagabond King by Jodie Bond


2DEE - Robert Wyatt Dunn ???



DAVID BRZESKI


STEWART HORN

  • The Teardrop Method by Simon Avery
  • Quiet Places by Jasper Bark
  • The Ghost Club 
  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction
  • The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts,
  • Pleasant Tales by Brendan Connell


MARIO GUSLANDI

Three Miles Past by Stephen Graham Jones

IAN HUNTER

  • Red Snow by Ian R Macleod
  • Debudaderrah by Robin Wyatt Dunn(science fiction / epic poetry)
  • The Waters and The Wild by DeSales Harrison
  • The Parentations by Kate Mayfield#
  • Tree Spirit and other strange tales by Michael Eisele
  • The Myra Twins and the Ark of the Coven by Annie Brocklehurst
  • ODQP Anthology

MATT JOHNS
Howls Moving Castle - Dianna Wynne Jones
Milton in Purgatory by Edward Vass
A Distasteful Horror Story by Johnny Mains 
Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead by Karen Lee Street
Metacosmoclypse by Tamara Wilding
The Tetris Effect by Colin Carvalho Burgess 

  • The Child Celephina by Rebecca Lloydn (Tartarus)
  • House of the Flight Helpers by Philomena van Rijswijk
  • Peyals and Violins by DP Watt (Tartarus)
  • The forever house by Time Waggoner
  • Snowball by Gregory Bastianelli
  • We are monsters by Brian Kirk


STEVE DEAN
    • The Ice House by Tim Clare
    • Strange Tombs by Syd Moore
    • Ayemes Circus of Redemption by Keith Blackburn
    • Vincent the boy who painted the night by Mark Roland Langdale
    • Black Bottle Man  by Craig Russell
    • The Dreams of the Eternal City by Mark Reece
    • Splendid in Ash by Charles Wilkinson
    • Wacky Wizard Wars by Christina Clarry and Maxine Alan-Hart
    • The lantern of mundi kentigern by malcom laughton
    • Book 2 of the Codex Arcanum : Cryptozoology for beginners by Euphemia Whitmore and Matt Harry
    • Kill Creek by Scott Thomas

KAREN STEVENS
  • The Changeling King by noor jahangir
  • The Legend of Silvermane
  • The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
  • Lost Cartographies by Cyril Simsa





Reviewers Gone AWOL/Left the team


MP ERICSON

  • Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine43, 45 and 46 (All PDFS)
  • At an uncertain hour by Nyki Blatchley
  • Realms of Fantasy Dec/Feb/April/Aug

Kate Coe


- Time for the Wind by Dennis Waite
- The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti


Katy O'Dowd (Katyo)


Josie Pymm
The Bastard Wonderland by Lee Harrison

Rex Sumner

Chris Limb (catmachine)

Rebecca lloyd

Philip Sloman(phlambler)

PAUL CAMPBELL

Once and Future Cities

Nikki Johns(nikkijohns1970)


Witch by Lorne Patterson (Dark Hall Press)

ADAM SHARDLOW


Words of Re-enchantment Essays on Storytelling etc by Anthony Nanson
Tomes of the Dead : Anno Mortis by Rebecca Levene
The Hole by John Davey
Garbage Man
Metrophilias by Brendan  Connell

ANNE SELBY


Demon Dance by Sam Stone
Second Sight by Greg Hamerton (Eternity Press)
Unpleasant Tales by Brendan Connell

ANGIE BEARDMORE


The Last Days of Johnny North by David Swann (Elastic Press)
Creator
Gift of Gabe
Midnight Street 7
On Spec 65

Emma Audsley


Onion Songs by Steve Rasnic Tem
Urban Occult 
Eyepennies
Myths And Legends: Jason And The Argonauts By Neil Smith
Unspoken Water 1 And 2- Edited By Ian Hunter (Red Raw Press)
The Demonologia Biblica" Edited By Dean M. Drinkel
Dungeon Brain By Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Creakers By Paul Kane

DAVID REW


Death and Dishonour Warhammer -Alex Davies et al

David Rudden (Dave Rudden)


Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #42
The Emperor's Might - Warriors of the Imperium (Artwork)
WH40k Salvations Reach by Dan Abnett

PATRICK DOWNS


Chaosium Basic RPG system
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Quest for the Holy Ale
Solipsist - Indie RPG about changing reality

Richard Webb



The Merchant of Dreams by Anne Lyle


Paul Woodward (Paul w)

A Glimpse of the Numinous by Jeff Gardiner

COLIN LESLIE

Twisted Legends: Urbanized and Unauthorized - Edited by Jesse Marie Roberts
Wine and Rank Poison by Allyson Bird

David Burrows

The Silver Wind


JAY EALES

Bloody War by Terry Grimwood
WH40k The Madness Within by Steve Lyons (Audiobook)
WH40k Sabbat Worlds by Dan Abnett
WH40k Salvations Reach by Dan Abnett

Alex Bardy

ASIM 56

Jacob Howard (jacobhoward)

Russell Chambers (unitkoolbreeze)

Knight of the Blazing Sun by Josh Reynolds

JIM MCLEOD

Frightfully Cosy and Mild Stories for Nervous Types by Johnny Mains
In Deleriums Circle

Glenn Mehn (Gmehn)


SUSAN BAKER


Rhamin by Bryce Thomas

LIZ WHEEL


Six Silly Stories

ROBERT WATSON


The Shimmering Gate

Friday, 24 August 2012

The Available List



PDF's/ebooks (available from the shared dropbox - please let me know if you download one)

  • Blackwater Val by William Gorman
  • Every Foul Spirit by William Gorman
  • The Pale Whiet by Chad Lutzke
  • Faerie The Tiend by Igo Rab
  • KZine 23
  • Arcana by Paul Kane
  • The Gift of the Quoxxel by Richard Titus
  • Alive! Bringing your Nightmares to Life (Non fiction)
  • Game changers of the Apocolypse by Mark Kirkbride
  • Welcome to the Show Compiled by Matt Hayward
  • The Mourner's Cradle by Tommy B Smith
  • Broken Branches by Ben Ellis
  • Dead Reckoning by Dino Parenti
  • Queens of no tomorrow by Matt Maxwell (pdf)
  • KZine 22
  • Things you need by Kevin Lucia
  • Lost Highways (Crystal Lake)
  • Phantasmagoria Antho 1
  • Phantasmagoria Antho 2
  • Phantasmagoria Antho 3
  • Phantasmagoria Magazine 1
  • Phantasmagoria Magazine 2
  • Phantasmagoria Magazine 3
  • Phantasmagoria Magazine 4
  • Phantasmagoria Magazine 5
  • Tales from the Realm Vol 1 Ed Dustin Schyler Yoak
  • House of Sighs by Aaron Dries
  • Arithmophobia by Ruschelle Dillon
  • The Sorceress and the Postgraduate by Clive Heritage-Tilley
  • Weirdbook  38
  • The Wizard's Harvest Table by Tom Mooney
  • This isn't one of the stories I remember by RW Dunn (July release)
  • Dark is a colour of the day by Robin Wyatt Dunn
  • Refugees by RA Denny
  • Worship me by Craig Stewart
  • Frozen Shadows and other Chilling Stories by Gene  O'Neill
  • KZine 20
  • Light and Dark by CG Harris
  • Weirdbook 37
  • The Vale by Brian D Anderson
  • Varying Distances by Darren Speegle
  • Pacific Monsters by Tina Makereti
  • The Girl in the Fort by Tracy Fahey
  • The Hobgoblin's Herald by A R Aston
  • Into the Blight by Jonathan Ward
  • Church of the Latter Day Eugenics by Chris Kelso
  • Kyth by Jonathan Howard (PDF)
  • Blood of Four Gods by Jamie Lackey
  • Gilchrist by Christian Galacar
  • Tales from the Lake Vol 4 Edited by Ben Eads
  • KZine 19
  • Ugly little things by Todd Kiesling
  • Behold! Anthology
  • Weird Book Annual 1 - Witches
  • Transferance by Kate Jonuska
  • A Persistence of Geraniums and Other Worrying Tales by John Linwood Grant
  • Restless:Anthology of Mummy Horror Ed Jim Beard and John C Bruening
  • Saucy Robot Stories Ed Jim Beard
  • The Worm Within - Sarah Newton 
  • Children of the Shaman by Jessica Rydill
  • Saucy Robot Tales (MetaHuman Press)
  • RESTLESS: An Anthology of Mummy Horror (Flinch Books)
  • Catalyst Moon - Breach. by Lauren L Garcia
  • Beatrice Beecham's Cryptic Crypt by Dave Jeffery 
  • Kzine 18
  • Discoucia by Nicholas Lovelock
  • Whispered Echoes by Paul F Olson
  • Alpha Grayson by Midika Crane
  • Metropolitan Dreams by Mark A King
  • Dark Times by Brian Marek-Murray
  • Before by Paul Kane (PDF on request. Awaiting mobi file.)
  • The Infernal Clock Steph Ellis and David Shakes
  • Mermaid by Kate O'Conner
  • Blood Bank by Zoe Markham
  • Journeys Edited by Teresea Edgerton
  • Best New Horror 27
  • Tales from the Miskatonic University
  • Thrill Power Overload - 2000AD - The first 40 years David Bishop and KArl Stock
  • Pseudotooth by Verity Holloway
  • Metronome by Oliver Langmead.
  • The Society's Demon by Matthew Lloyd and Steve Dean
  • KZine 17
  • The Dark Issue 20 (Zine)
  • Rose by John Arnold http://www.obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive/rose.html
  • The Massacre by James Cooray Smith http://www.obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive/rose.html
  • Rare Breeds Novella by Erik Hofstatter
  • Twisted 50 Volume 1
  • Writer's on Writing Volume 4 (Crystal Lake)
  • KZine 16
  • - The Horror of the Neverending Army (Lady Thrillington adventure) by Havelock James Sterling 
  • - Spies and Saucers by Robert Guffey (PS Publishing PDF)
  • This Twisted Earth Ed Dion Winton-Polak
  • Oothangbart - a subversive fable for adults and bears by Rebecca Lloyd
  • Rarity from the Hollow by Robert Eggleton (nb First edition mobi/2nd edition pdf)
  • Eve of War by Darren Pulsford and Mhairi Simpson
  • Hollow House by Greg Chapman
  • Fables and Fabrications by Jan Edwards
  • Migration by David Daniel (mobi, epub and pdf)
  • Necrotech by KC ALexander (epub)
  • Fix by Ferrett Steinmetz (epub)
  • On Spec 102
  • KZine Issue  15
  • Gutted - Beautiful Horror Stories (PDF/ Mobi/ebook) Ed Doug Murano and D.Alexander Ward
  • THE COMPLETE WEIRD EPISTLES OF PENELOPE PETTIWEATHER, GHOST HUNTER by JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON
  • 'The Office of Lost and Found' by Vincent Holland-Keen
  • Hadrian's Rage by Patricia Marie Budd
  • Ascension by Jeannie van Rompaey
  • Film Gutter Vol 1 by Alex Davis
  • The Sign in the moonlight by David Tallerman
  • KZine Issue 14
  • Who Wants to be the Prince of Darkness? by Michael Boatman (epub)
  • The Destructives by Matthew De Abaitua (epub)
  • Legends of New Pulp Fiction (Anthology)
  • Illustrated Cosmic Monopole Volume 1 of Time Crystal by Wyken Seagrave
  • The Time Tunnel volume 2 of Time Crystal by Wyken Seagrave
  • Born with Teeth by Conrad Williams
  • Of Ice and Air by Carlie Cullen
  • The Case of the Bloody Iris by Ernesto Gastaldi
  • The Horrible Dr Hitchcock by Ernesto Gastaldi
  • My Early Crimes by Paolo Di Orazio’s 
  • A Bag of Bedtime by Allen Stroud
  • awaiting Strange Gods by Darrel Schweitzer
  • On Spec Spring 2015
  • The Black Dog Eats the City by Chris Kelso
  • Slave Stories by Chris Kelso
  • Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep (Swedish Scifi Antho)
  • The Genehunter by Simon Kewin
  • With good intent by Guinevere A Hart
  • Demonheart by Abbas Daya
  • In Search of Spice by Rex Sumner
  • Dawnbreaker:Legends of the Duskwalker 3 by Jay Posey
  • Stigers Tigers by Marc Edelheit
  • Nightmares Ahead by Howard Jackson
  • Dawn of the Algorithm (End of the World Poetry) by Yann Rousselot (also hard copy)
  • KZine Issue 12
  • Cast Adrift by Mannah Pierce
  • Storylandia 15 Julie Travis
  • End Times at Ridgemont High by Ian Welke
  • Fencing Academy by Philippa Martinez
  • Fur-Lined Ghettos #6
  • ASIM (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine) 60
  • KZine 11 Ed Graeme Hurry
  • Flex by Ferrett Steinmetz
  • Stillwater by Maynard Sims
  • The Metanatural Adventures of Dr Black by Bredan Connel (PS Publishing PDF)
  • To Break the Demon Gate by Paul Park(PS Publishing PDF)
  • Sacrifice on Spica III by Eric Brown (PS Publishing PDF)
  • Postscripts 31/32 Far Voyager Ed Nick Gevers (PS Publishing PDF)
  • Starry Wisdom Library Anothology Ed. Nate Pederson (PS Publishing PDF)
  • The Voyages of Captain Ned by DH Wells
  • Brakespear Voyage by Jonathon Dennis and Simon Bucher-Jones
  • The Silver Cross Trilogy by June Winton
  • The Pariahs by Erik Hofstatter
  • The Good Shabti by Robert Sharp
  • Hunter by Aoife Marie Sheridan 
  • TimeStorm by Steve Harrison
  • Glass Shore by Stefan Jackson
  • ASIM (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine) 59
  • Kzine 10
  • The Sleeping Dead by Richard Barber
  • Moribund Tales by Erik Hoffstatter
  • Warrior Stone Underland by Robert Harkess
  • Searchers After Horror  by S.T Joshi
  • Wild Fell by Michael Rowe
  • The Romero Strain by TS Alan
  • Juvie by Adam Shardlow

  • After Darkness Falls by Matt Drabble
  • Asylum 2013
  • Behind the Sofa by Chris Newton and Mark Charlesworth
  • ASIM 58
  • Persistance of Memory by Winona Kent

  • Strange Trails by James Palmer
  • Feast of Flesh, Banquet of Bones by Isaac Hobbs
  • The Power of Nothing by Richard Farren Barber
  • The Big Reap by Chris F. Holm
  • The Case of the Cursed Star by Adam Shardlow
  • The Monster Inside by John Northern
  • Conjure House by Gary Fry
  • The New Flesh by  Keith Deininger
  • Worm by Tim Curran
  • Shiftling by Steven Savile
  • House of Rain by Greg F Gifune 
  • The Evolutionist By Rena Mason 
  • The Angel Of Shadwell By Jonathan Templar
  • Stealing Night By Peter Gigliohttp://s.skimresources.com/img/cbuddy2.png
  • Sunfall Manor By Peter Giglio 
  • Three Miles Past By Stephen Graham Jones 
  • Sleepless Knights By Mark H Williams 
  • Hard Winter By  Neil Davies 
  • White Fire War By Dean C. Mcmillin 
  • In A Season Of Dead Winter By Mark Dillon
  • Worth Their Weight In Blood By Carole Jahme
  • Cold Skies By Paul Mcavoy
  • The Alien Stone By Barry Uglow
  • Jacey's Kingdom By Dave Weaver 
  • Bookworm By Christopher Nuttall
  • Greaveburn By Craig Hallam 
  • Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 54 
  • Yesterdays Hero By Jonathan Wood 
  • Tales Of A High Planes Drifter By Ed Erdelac 
  • Kiera's Quest : Awakenings By Kristy Brown 
  • Fur Lined Ghettos 1 Strangeness And Charm By Mike Shevdon (The Courts Of The Feyre, Vol 3)
  • Night’s Engines By Trent Jamieson (The Nightbound Land, Vol 2)
  • The Black by Mark Morris (PS Publishing PDF




Indie Press Material (Actual Books!)
  • Nowhereville by scott gable and c dombrowski
  • Ayi Two Lives Tales of Life, Love, and Crime (March/April)
  • The garden of bewitchment by Catherine Cavendish 
  • The Goblets Immortal by Beth Overmyer
  • The Blood-dimmed tide by Michael R Johnston
  • Tomorrow when I was young by Julie Travis
  • On Spec 111 vol 30