Category: Internet Destinations

Real-Time Review of Autumn Cthulhu

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Not long ago, Des Lewis finished one of his real-time reviews of my collection The Lure of Devouring Light — you can see where I talked about that HERE.

Now Des is in the middle of a real-time review of Autumn Cthulhu, the cosmic horror recently published by Lovecraft eZine Press. Scroll down to the comments at the bottom HERE, where each comment discusses one of the stories. As I post this, he’s about halfway through the book, and hasn’t yet reached my favorite, “Anchor” by John Langan. He did seem to like my story “The Smoke Lodge,” which is nice to see.

Word Horde Summer Solstice Goodreads Giveaways

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Word Horde is doing Goodreads Giveaways starting May 25 for a number of recent releases. Here are links:

The Lure of Devouring Light
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/188116-the-lure-of-devouring-light

Furnace by Livia Llewellyn
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/188120-furnace

Painted Monsters by Orrin Grey
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/188124-painted-monsters-other-strange-beasts

Cthulhu Fhtagn! edited by Ross E. Lockhart
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/188123-cthulhu-fhtagn

It’s rumored that John Langan’s wonderful upcoming novel The Fisherman will be included, once publication details are finalized. That’s a book you won’t want to miss.

The Complete Des Lewis Real-Time Review

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Des Lewis has completed his real-time review of The Lure of Devouring Light. You can read all the installments HERE. Scroll down to the comments to see his coverage of each individual story.

On Facebook, he also described the book as “near-perfect,” which is pretty great.

Thank you, Des, for all the time and effort you put into this! It’s my great pleasure to have my own real-time review, after enjoying many of your previous efforts.

Lure Reviewed at This is Horror

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So far, it appears The Lure of Devouring Light is being well-received by most readers and reviewers. Latest evidence is this fantastic new review on the This is Horror site, written by Bob Pastorella.

Tag line: “A fearless writer who doesn’t just turn the intensity knob up, he rips the damn thing off the control board.”

Link HERE.

My thanks to Bob Pastorella and This is Horror… speaking of which, I’ve really been enjoying the TIH podcast, on which Bob co-hosts with Michael David Wilson. Check out that podcast HERE.

Lure Reviewed by Adrian Shotbolt

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This quite flattering review of The Lure of Devouring Light just appeared on the blog of Adrian Shotbolt, aka Beavis the Bookheed, this morning.

Book Review: The Lure of Devouring Light – Michael Griffin

tl;dr summary version: “Griffin has a wonderful ability to create realistic images through his words, particularly with his deft use of descriptive language, crafting delicious stories of dark, weird horror. This is a fantastic collection and I highly recommend it.”

Thanks, Adrian!

Real-Time Review of Lure of Devouring Light

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Des Lewis has begun one of his real-time reviews (in which he posts to his blog about his ongoing reaction to a book he’s reading) of The Lure of Devouring Light.

The link to that post is HERE.

As I post this, he’s only gotten as far as the first, title story… and his reaction is interesting, because (as you may already know if you read my early “What’s in the book” post) I originally wrote this story as a submission for the Classical Horror anthology edited by Des, and he ended up rejecting the story. This is not a case of sour grapes or “I told you so” on my part, nor defensiveness on Des’s part. It’s genuinely interesting to see an editor revisit a story which he rejected years ago.

I won’t keep re-posting this link as more stories are read and reviews, so if you’re interested, you’ll just need to bookmark the above link and check back. My thanks to Des Lewis for the time and attention.