Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination David Nickle ChiZine Publications September, 2017 Reviewed by Gordon B. White When a monster that can cloud men’s minds is loose in 1930s Europe, whom can you trust? Not the Nazis, that’s for sure. It’s 1931, and the Nazis have a...
HELLNOTES: What can you tell us about your upcoming novel The Wilderness Within? What was your inspiration for this novel about a sentient forest where reality is slippery, to say the least, and what was your process like in writing it? JOHN CLAUDE SMITH: Thank you...
HELLNOTES: Congratulations on your new collection! Between this and your recent novel, I Wish I Was Like You (which we also discussed here), this has been a busy year for you. When did the idea for this collection start coming together? What was the process like of...
Today’s Deep Cuts is “Girl, I Love You” (over at The Dark) by Nadia Bulkin. Originally published in Phantasm Japan (eds. Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington), “Girl, I Love You” is also one of the twenty stories appearing in Bulkin’s debut collection She Said Destroy...
ALYSSA WONG – “NATURAL SKIN” Today’s Deep Cuts is “Natural Skin” (over at Lightspeed Magazine) by Alyssa Wong. As an initial note, Ms. Wong is the reason we re-launched Deep Cuts, since I’d promised to interview her but didn’t have a chance during the first...