June 2019 Wrap-Up

Welcome to our sixth wrap-up of 2019. These will be posted on or around the first day of every month. It will be an easy reference for all of the reviews, guest posts, and articles done on the site, as well as shouting out sites that any of the Coolthulhu Crew have done guest posts/reviews on. If there is any news, it will be listed as well.

Horror Book Reviews:

• Aetherchrist – Kirk Jones – (Lilyn, 3*) (Sci-Fi Cross-Post)
• Carrow Haunt, The – Darcy Coates (Lilyn, 4*)
• Children of the Night – Dan Simmons (Sian, 4*)
• Comfortable In Hell – Karen Ann Carpenter (Nico, 4*)
• Darkness and Bloodshed – Lennie Grace (Gracie, 3*)
• Deadhead – Shaun Hutson (Olly, 3*)
• Deadly Nightshade – Jason Paul (Sian, 3*)
• Devil’s Equinox, The – John Everson (Sian, 3*)
• Flicker – RF Blackstone (Olly, 2*)
• Green Sunday – Ryk Brink (Sian, 4*)
• Half Man, The – Anne Billson (Olly, 4*)
• Halloween Fiend – CV Hunt (Olly, 4*)
• Hunger, The – Alma Katsu (Sam, 5*)
• Hungry Ones, The – Chris Sorenson ( Tracy, 5*)
• If You See Her – Ania Ahlborn (Tracy, 4*)
• Impossible James – Danger Slater (Tracy, 4*)
• Jaws – Peter Benchley (Sian, 3*)
• Master of Pain – Wrath James White & Kristopher Rufty (Sian, 4*)
• Nightmare Girl, The – Jonathan Janz (Nico, 4*)
• Night Shoot – David Sodergren (Olly, 4*)
• Rabid Heart – Jeremy Wagner (Olly, 2*)
• Resurrectionists, The – Michael Patrick Hicks (Tracy, 4*)
• Rolling in the Deep – Mira Grant (Sam, 5*)
• Savage – Richard Laymon (Olly,4*)
• Sleep in the Dust of the Earth – Richard Haines (Gracie, 3*)
• Teeth in the Mist – Dawn Kurtagich (Sam, 4*)
• They Thirst – Robert McCammon (Sian, 2*)
• We Live Inside Your Eyes – Kealan Patrick Burke (Sian,4*)
• We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix (Gracie, 5*)
• Whispers in the Dark – Laurel Hightower (Sian, 5*)
• Zed’s World, Books 1 and 2 – Richard Baker (Sian, 3*) (Sci-Fi Cross-Post)
• Zed’s World, Book 3: No Way Out – Richard Baker ( Sian, 3*) (Sci-Fi Cross-Post)

Horror DNFs:

• The Adversary – Mauricio Limiera – Poor Translation

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Science Fiction Book Reviews:

• Black Cloud, The – Fred Hoyle (Michael M, 4*)
• Chrysalids, The – John Wyndham (Sian, 4*)
• Crimson Deathbringer, The – Sean Robins (Nico, 5*)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Phillip K. Dick (Sian, 4*)
• Immortal – Nick M. Lloyd (Lilyn, 4*)
• Judge Dredd: Year One – City Fathers – Matthew Smith (Olly, 2*)
• Last, The – Hanna Jameson (Olly, 3*)
• Last Astronaut, The – David Wellington (Lilyn, 5*)
• Layers of Light – S.R. Cronin (Michael, 3*)
• Lonely Heroes – Eddie Upnick (Sian, 2*)
• Lost World, The – Michael Crichton (Sian, 4*)
• Luminous Dead, The – Caitlin Starling (Tracy, 5*)
• Pines – Blake Crouch (Sian, 3*)
• Proximity – Jem Tugwell (Olly,3*)
• Three Poisons, The – John Molik (Nico, 2*)
• Time Will Tell – Eddie Upnick (Sian, 2*)

Science Fiction DNFs:

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Spec Fic, Thrillers, Urban Fantasy Book Reviews

• Cari Mora – Thomas Harris (Tracy, 3*)
• Colorado Kid, The – Stephen King (Olly, 5*)
• Fire He Started, The – Sarah Connor (Sian, 3*)
• Snow Over Utopia – Rudolfo A. Serno (V. Castro, 4*)
• Writer’s Block, The – Michael Wheatley (Sam, 3*)

Speculative Fiction DNFs:

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Graphic Novel Reviews:

• Haunted High-Ons – Dirk Manning,Marianna Pecosta (Gracie, 5*)
• Judge Dredd: America– John Wagner & Colin MacNeil (Olly, 5*)
• Of Gods and Men – Jean-Pierre Dionnet & Theureau (Olly, 3*)
• Prism Stalker ,Vol 1 – Sloane Leong (Olly, 3*)
• Zombillenium – Arthur de Pins (Olly, 3*)

Graphic Novel DNFs:

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Childrens Book Reviews

• Timothy Mean and the Time Machine – William A E Ford, Marcelo Simoetti (Olly, 3*)

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Horror Movie Reviews:

• Cherokee Creek (V Castro)
• Crow, The (Gemma A)
• Don’t Knock Twice (V Castro)
• Godzilla: The King of the Monsters (Lilyn)
• He’s Out There (V Castro)
• Strait-Jacket (Gemma A)
• Ticks (Gemma A)

Horror Movie DNFs:

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Science Fiction Movie Reviews:

• See You Yesterday (Olly)

Science Fiction Movie DNFs:

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Game Reviews

• Don’t Knock Twice (Gracie)
• Without Escape (Gracie)

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Articles/Specials:

• Carry On Screaming – The Devils of D-Day – Graham Masterton (Olly)
• Carry On Screaming – Killer Crabs – Guy N Smith – (Olly)
• Carry On Screaming – The Spear – James Herbert – (Olly)
• A Gateway to Pulp – Unto the Last Generation – Juanity Coulson (Mike)
• Original vs Remake: Suspiria (Gracie, Nico)

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Guest Posts:

• Time Travel: A Muddy Science Fiction Concept – Brian Bixby

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Coolthulhu Crew Guest Posts:

• https://barksbooknonsense.blogspot.com/2019/06/need-amazing-book-heres-8-of-them.html – Tracy has 2 books mentioned in this post

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News

• The Space Kraken Short Fiction Artists’ Hall: A little while ago on Twitter we ran a poll asking readers what was the best thing we could do to help promote diversity in art and film. The most popular answer was to give marginalized groups a space.
  
  Well, we are not a major publishing house. (Hell, we’re not even a tiny one.) But, we listened, and we want to give marginalized groups a space to have all their fantastic ideas heard.
  
  There will be more information to come when the space opens on July 1st, so stay tuned.
  
• Member Lost: Mike Justman, who has previously contributed pulp sci-fi reviews and recently said he wanted to do old horror movie reviews has done a mental health walkaway. We wish him the best.

• New Opportunities: While we are not actively seeking to replace Mike at this time, we would be open to giving POC or Latnix writers and reviewers another space to post their reviews, thought pieces,and maybe short creative fiction. This would be open to two potential members. If interested, please reach out via the comments section below, or hit me up on Twitter at @scifiandscary.
  
• As usual, you have seen DNFs listed on this page. We will continue to do so in order to give more transparency to the books and movies we consider for the site.