Religion in Fantasy: Finding Meaning in the Madness
Conversations about religion can be difficult. It is a subject that tends to evoke great passion and strong opinions. From a staunch atheist to the most extreme believer and everyone in between, religion touches...
GdM#29 featuring T.R. Napper and Jesse Bullington is here!
Another quarterly issue of Grimdark Magazine has just hit the stands and been sent out to our subscribers! Featuring futuristic hunting parks, cyberpunk samurai and cybernetic attack dogs, a good old fashioned nordic-style mythical...
REVIEW: Lent by Jo Walton
Lent is a chimera of a novel, a combination of historical fiction and fantasy with bits of religious and philosophical arguments peppered throughout a thoroughly interesting Groundhog’s Day-esque story. Jo Walton juggles each of...
REVIEW: This is My Blood by David Niall Wilson
This is My Blood is a book that I was hesitant to pick up despite my love of vampire fiction. Religious horror is something that can be done very well (The Omen, The Exorcist,...
REVIEW: Faithless by Graham Austin-King
Faithless, from Graham Austin-King (The Riven Wyrde Saga), is an intelligent, complex, exciting, dark, and somewhat transgressive story about a young man’s journey from poor son of a farmer to, well, you’ll have to...
REVIEW: Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
Over on his blog, Mark Lawrence (Broken Empire, Red Queen’s War, Red Sister) is making an effort to “nail down grimdark.” In doing so he offers two camps of people with differing views of...
Review: A Perfect Machine by Brett Savory
Brett Savory is best known for his short horror fiction, so it’s no surprise that his first novel, A Perfect Machine, concerns itself with secret societies, aberrant rituals and the implacable erosion of one...