September – November’s Monthly Wrap Up

Welcome to our ninth wrap up of 2019. Because Lilyn has been overtaken by crazy for the past few months, this wrap up encompasses September, October, and November.

Horror Book Reviews:

• A Place for Sinners – Aaron Dries (Tracy) – 4/5
• An Army of Skin – Morgan K. Tanner (Lilyn) – 3/5
• And Cannot Come Again – Simon Bestwick (Gracie) – 5/5
• Beneath London’s Fog – Iona Caldwell (Gracie) – 3/5
• Black Heart Boy’s Choir – Curtis M. Lawson (Tracy) – 4/5
• Blood Sugar – Daniel Kraus (Olly) – 5/5
• Cattie – Megan King (Nico) – 4/5
• Celestial Seepage – Brian Fatah Steele (Nico) – 4/5
• Claws – Russell James (Lilyn) – 4/5
• Come Join Us by the Fire – ed. Teresa Delucci (Tracy) – 4/5
• Dark Carnival – Joanne Parapinski (Tracy) – 3/5
• Deep Fear – Jethro Wegender (Lilyn) – 3/5
• Dig Two Graves – Death’s Head Press Anthology (Suz Jay) – 4/5
• Echoes – ed. Ellen Datlow (Gracie) – 4/5
• Exponential – Adam Cesare (Tracy) – 4/5
• Feral – Matt Serafini (Tracy) – 4/5
• Ghostland – Duncan Ralston (Lilyn) – 3/5
• Grace Year, The – Kim Ligget (Sian) – 4/5
• Grind Your Bones to Dust – Nicholas Day (Lilyn) – 4/5
• Hate the Sin – Artyom Dereschuk (Olly) – 2/5
• Hex – Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Sam) – 3/5
• Infernal – Cheryl Low (Sam) – 5/5
• Lesath – A.M Kherbash (Nico) – 2/5
• Let’s Play White – Chesya Burke (Tracy) – 4/5
• Licking the Devil’s Horn – Renee Miller (Tracy) – 4/5
• Little Paranoias – Sonora Taylor (Tracy) – 4/5
• Maxine Unleashes Doomsday – Nick Kolakowski (Olly) – 4/5
• Metalpocalypse – RF Blackstone (Gracie) – 2/5
• Monkey Man – M.N. Snow (Michael) – 3/5
• Mutation – Nerys Wheatley (Lilyn) – 4/5
• Narrows, The – Travis M. Riddle (Sian) – 3/5
• One That Knows No Fear, The – Steve Stred (Sam) – 3/5
• Outpost 28, #4 – ed. Dean Kuhta (Gracie) – 5/5
• Ration – Cody T. Luff (Michael) – 4/5
• Reception – Kenzie Jennings (Tracy) – 4/5
• Scavenger Hunt – Michaelbrent Collings (Gracie) – 5/5
• Sing Your Sadness Deep – Laura Mauro (Tracy) – 4/5
• Slash – Hunter Shea (Sian) – 4/5
• Soon – Lois Murphy (Sam) – 5/5
• Survival of Molly Southbourne, The – Tade Thompson (Nico) – 4/5
• Third Corona Book of Horror Stories, The – ed. Lewis Williams (Olly) – 4/5
• Triumph of the Spider Monkey – Joyce Carol Oates (Olly) – 3/5
• Twelve Nights at Rotter House – J.W. Ocker (Lilyn) – 3/5

Horror DNFs:

Science Fiction Book Reviews:

• Beyond Kidding – Lynda Clark (Sian) – 3/5
• Binti: Home – Nnedi Okorafor (Nico) – 5/5
• Chicken and the Quail, The – Nissar Ahmed A. Naik (Olly) – 4/5
• Desire for Will – The Lost One – Bastet La Cosmo (Michael) – 2/5
• Diamond Eye Phillis, Vol 1 – Jennifer Caress (Olly) – 4/5
• Final Frontier – ed. C. Stuart Hardwick (Michael) – 4/5
• Finite, The – Kit Power (Olly) – 5/5
• Forward Collection, The – ed. Blake Crouch (Lilyn) – 3/5
• Half Way Home – Hugh Howey (Tracy) – 3/5
• Only Harmless Great Thing, The – Brooke Bolander (Mitch) – 5/5
• Refraction – Naomi Hughes (Lilyn) – 5/5
• Salvaged – Madeleine Roux (Lilyn) – 4/5
• Slay – Brittney Morris (Olly) – 5/5

Sci-Fi DNFs:

Speculative Fiction/ Fantasy Book Reviews:

• I’m a Gay Wizard – V.S. Santoni (Sian) – 3/5
• Invisible Chains – Michelle Renee Lane (Nico) – 5/5
• Lamp’s Light Sanitarium #RPGCampaign – Matt Corley -(Gracie) – 5/5
• Last Things – Jacqueline West (Nico) – 5/5
• Paraiso Street – Evan James Clark (Sian) – 3/5
• Shadow Frost – Coco Ma (Sian) – 5/5
• Testaments, The – Margaret Atwood (Olly) – 4/5

Specfic DNFs:

Mystery/Thriller/Crime Book Reviews:

• Arctic Adiago – DJ Cockburn (Nico) – 2/5
• Gwendy’s Magic Feather – Richard Chizmar (Tracy) – 3/5
• Hidden Bodies – Caroline Kepnes (Sian) – 4/5
• Night Janitor, The – T.F. Allen (Tracy) – 3/5
• Plotters, The – Un-Su Kim (Sam) – 4/5
• Raven – Tim Pearsall (Sian) – 2/5
• Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon – James Lovegrove (Olly) – 4/5
• To Keep You Safe – Kate Bradshaw (Olly) – 4/5
• You – Caroline Kepnes (Sian) – 5/5
• Zero Saints – Gabino Iglesias (Lilyn) – 4/5

Mystery/Thriller/Crime DNFs:

Graphic Novel Reviews:

Ms. Marvel No Normal – G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphono (Olly) – 5/5

Graphic Novel DNFs:

Genre-Related Non-Fic Reviews:

• In the Dream House – Carmen Marie Machado (Tracy) – 5/5
• How to Survive a Horror Movie (Updated edition) – Seth Grahame-Smith (Lilyn) – 4/5

Horror Movie/Television Reviews:

• Babadook, The – Sammy
• Bait – Olly
• Between the Darkness – Sammy
• Birds, The – (Classic Horror) – Gracie
• Boys in the Trees – V. Castro
• Cannibals and Carpet Fitters – V. Castro
• Creature from the Black Lagoon, The – (Classic Horror) – Gracie
• Daybreak (ep 1) – Olly
• Dead Night – V. Castro
• Devil’s Candy, The – Sam
• Down a Dark Hall – V. Castro
• Hell Fest – V. Castro
• House (1985)– Gemma
• I Remember You – (Icelandic Horror) – V. Castro
• Influence, The – V. Castro
• It Chapter 2 – Lilyn
• Itsy Bitsy – Gracie
• Jacob’s Ladder (2019) – Gracie
• Joker – Sammy
• Lemon Tree Passage – Gracie
• Monster, The – V. Castro
• Realms – (Thai Horror)- V. Castro
• Selfie From Hell – V. Castro
• Threads – (Classic Horror) – Gemma
• Windmill Massacre, The – (Dutch Horror) – V. Castro
• Wolf Creek – Gemma
• Wounds – Gemma

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie/Television Reviews:

• His Dark Materials (ep 1) – Olly
• Occupation – Lilyn
• Transit 17 – Sammy

Articles/Specials

• AllAccessCon
• Carry On Screaming: Spawn by Shaun Hutson (Olly)
• Carry On Screaming: Slugs by Shaun Hutson (Olly)
• Carry On Screaming: The Tribe by Glenn Chandler (Olly)
• Psych-o-Rama Sci-Fi – Rudolfo A. Serna
• Vacationing in the Wasteland – Rudolfo A Serna
• SUCK IT, Lilyn – Sam’s 31 Days of Spooktober Wrap Up Post (Sam)
• Bad Movie Mayhem: Rogue (JB Rockwell)
• Things I Learned from the Slush Pile (Author McAuthorface)

Guest Posts/Interviews

• A Ghost Town? Perhaps – Brian Bixby
• Celebrity Monsters – Damien Angelica Walters
• Growing Up an Aussie Horror Fanatic – Yolanda Sfetsos
• The Deep – Alma Katsu (Guest Review by Don Gillette)
• Interview: Alan Baxter
• Interview: Andrew Cull
• Interview: Beverley Lee
• Interview: David Howard Thornton
• Interview: Kirk Jones
• Interview: S.T. Campitelli
• Interview: Starlight
• Women of Sci-Fi: Jen Kerson
• Women of Sci-Fi: H.D. Carlton

Game Reviews:

• Call of Cthulhu – Gracie
• Darkfall Trilogy – Gracie
• Last Crown, The – Gracie
• Until Dawn – Gracie

Crew Guest Posts Elsewhere:

Tracy reviewed Grind Your Bones to Dust by Nicholas Day at High Fever Books.
Sam showed off her shelves with Shelf Edition at LOHF.
Tracy talks Promoting Your Books with The Thrill Begins.
Nico schools us on the importance of the female villains at Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Tracy reviewed Remains by Andrew Cull at High Fever Books.

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NEWS:

Sci-Fi & Scary is currently trialing a few new members to join the crew. You’ve already seen posts this month from Suz Jay and Mitch Sebourne. We hope to be bringing you more as well.

We are looking for reviewers and writers who are interested in covering work either coming from diverse persons or containing characters that are diverse and covered in a respectful manner.