My review of 'The Changeling' by Victor LaValle, read originally for #WitchWeek2023 with its #CryptoZoo theme.
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The waters and the wild
‘The Abbey in the Oakwood’ (detail) by Caspar David Friedrich The Changeling by Victor LaValle. Canongate Books, 2018 (2017). “And they lived happily ever after,” Apollo whi…
A wrap-up post for #WitchWeek2023 and #CryptoZoo: acknowledgements to guest posters and others and announcement of next year's theme, #JoanAiken, marking the centenary of her birth!
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#WitchWeek2023 wrap-up plus 2024 theme
#WitchWeek2023 We’ve come to the end of the tenth year of Witch Week with our exploration of monsters, beasties, cryptids and more from around the world, and co-host Lizzie and I hope you enj…
#WitchWeek2023 Day 5: Shadow selves and werewolves
WordPress Free Photo Library Mischief Night: ‘Shadow selves and literary werewolves’ by Chris Lovegrove What do we fear, and why do we fear it? When and where did that fear start? With …
‘Slavic Concepts of Monstrosity and Otherness': last of a series of guest posts for
#WitchWeek2023 and the
#CryptoZoo theme.
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-ww23slav
#WitchWeek2023 Day 6: Slavic monsters and ‘others’
Image of Leszy or Leshy (1906) Bonfire Night: ‘Slavic Concepts of Monstrosity and Otherness’ by Ola Gruszczyk and Piotr Kaplon The various ways in which different cultures and localitie…
Review of Brent Stypczynski's The Modern Literary Werewolf for the
#CryptoZoo theme in
#WitchWeek2023.
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-ww23were#WitchWeek2023 Day 5: Shadow selves and werewolves
WordPress Free Photo Library Mischief Night: ‘Shadow selves and literary werewolves’ by Chris Lovegrove What do we fear, and why do we fear it? When and where did that fear start? With …
#WitchWeek2023 Day 4: The Changeling. Discussion of
#VictorLaValle's fantasy horror The Changeling on the
#CryptoZoo theme.
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#WitchWeek2023 Day 4: The Changeling
Cover to Canongate Books edition “This fairy tale begins in 1968 during a garbage strike…” 3rd November: Witch Week midpoint Hi everyone! Lizzie here. Welcome to our Read-along Di…
Mallika Ramachandra considers
#Tintin's encounter with a
#Yeti in the latest post for
#WitchWeek2023's
#CryptoZoo theme on cryptids and monsters.
https://wp.me/p2oNj1-7jU
#WitchWeek2023 Day 3: Encountering the elusive Yeti
Victorian photo of the Himalayas, with Chomolungma the tallest peak All Souls Day: ‘An Encounter with the Elusive Yeti: Tintin in Tibet’ by Mallika Ramachandra Mythical beasts are a sta…
Insightful interview by
@lorywidmerhess with fantasy writer Kiyash Moncef, author of Once There Was, for the
#CryptoZoo theme of
#WitchWeek2023.
https://wp.me/p2oNj1-7jT
#WitchWeek2023 Day 2: Once was, once wasn’t
All Hallows Day: Interview with Kiyash Moncef, by Lory Widmer Hess. Once There Was by Kiyash Moncef was published in April 2023 by Simon & Schuster. He grew up in northern California, in a hous…
Top Ten Tuesday: A Halloween Cryptozoo
This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is “Halloween Freebie”. Today also marks the start of Witch Week, hosted by Chris and Lizzie, and their theme fo…
#WitchWeek2023 Day 1: Welcome to the #CryptoZoo! This Halloween Lizzie Ross offers us a catalogue of bestiaries:
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#WitchWeek2023 Day 1: Welcome to the CryptoZoo!
#WitchWeek2023 Halloween: ‘Welcome to the CryptoZoo!’ by Lizzie Ross I spent the last six months dealing with anxiety of over-choice: Which book about a mythical beast would I use? My b…
Christopher Lovegrove