Xlibris Reviews: Shadow Beast
Something stalks the Scottish highlands as Xlibris Publishing reviews Luke Phillips’ thriller novel Shadow Beast. Strange things are happening in the wilds surrounding the Scottish village of Cannich. Bones of animals are turning up in usually large amounts. The usual predators are disappearing or are being found dead… in pieces. Something new stalks the […] READ MORE |
AUTHOR ADVICE
Xlibris Reviews: Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
Fantasy has taken many forms over the years, often using a medieval pseudo-European setting as the backdrop. Usually technology or society in such a fantasy setting will rarely resemble or draw inspiration from anything after the 14th century. And unless the genre is Urban Fantasy, firearms rarely if ever crop up in a fantasy story. […] READ MORE |
Forgotten Treasures: Arthur Machen
This entry of Xlibris Publishing’s Forgotten Treasures explores the work of Arthur Machen. Who is Arthur Machen? Born Arthur Llewelyn Jones in Wales in 1863, Arthur Machen was a prominent writer and mystic between the 1890s and the early 1900s. The rich Celtic, Roman, and Medieval history of his home-county, Monmouthshire, heavily influenced Arthur […] READ MORE |
Bevan Knight, The Wishing Tree
Xlibris Publishing introduces Bevan Knight, author of The Wishing Tree. About Your Book and Yourself The Wishing Tree is a moderate sized fantasy thriller. I quote from the blurb on the book: When a sorcerer’s apprentice locks a powerful spirit in a tree, the nomadic tribes of the arctic face a bleak […] READ MORE |
Old Fashioned Monsters Pt 2
Xlibris Publishing returns with Old Fashioned Monsters, this time focusing on the horrid undead. Many human cultures and societies across the world have an aversion or hesitance regarding the dead. Why else do many cemeteries have walls, but to keep grave robbers outside and residents inside? The undead embody the idea of something that should […] READ MORE |