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Exclusive Interview: “Arkham Horror: The Ravening Deep” Author Tim Pratt

 

California is known for sun and fun. But for writer Tim Pratt, it’s also where he conjured an ancient evil. Well, an ancient evil in a story, that is. Which is just one of the things you’ll learn in the following email interview we did about Pratt’s new supernatural adventure novel, Arkham Horror: The Ravening Deep (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), which is connected to fantasy Flight’s H.P. Lovecraft-inspired card game, Arkham Horror.

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Exclusive Interview: “Wild Spaces” Author S.L. Coney

 

There are a lot of coming-of-age stories about boys, a lot of stories about boys and their dogs, and, of course, coming of age stories about boys and their dogs. But in S.L. Coney’s cosmic horror / dark fantasy novella Wild Spaces (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), we get all of those things…and a monster story. In the following email interview, Coney explains how, and why, as well as where and when and what the hell?

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Exclusive Interview: “Descendant Machine” Author Gareth L. Powell

 

With his new sci-fi space opera novel Descendant Machine (paperback, Kindle), writer Gareth L. Powell is presenting the second half of the Continuance duology he launched last year with Stars And Bones. In the following email interview, Powell explains how Bones and Machine are connected, and unconnected, as well as why you don’t have to read them in the order they were written.

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“Dead Space” 2023 Remake Review

 

Though it spawned two sequels, a couple side games, a mobile game, a pair of novels, two animated movies, some graphic novels, and a bunch of toys, t-shirts, and collectibles, the 2008 survival horror game Dead Space is often just considered a cult classic. Which made it rather surprising when Electronic Arts announced a remake of the game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC (and just a few years after Glen Schofield, one of the original Space creators, announced a spiritual successor, the recently released Callisto Protocol). But a lot can happen in fifteen years, especially in video games, something I kept in mind as I stepped once more into the breach.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Infinite” Author Ada Hoffmann

 

With The Infinite (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) writer Ada Hoffmann is concluding the epic cosmic horror sci-fi space opera trilogy she launched in 2019 with The Outside, and continued two years later with The Fallen. In the following email interview, Hoffmann discusses who and what inspired and influenced this third and final installment, including some rather familiar fuzzy bastards.

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Exclusive Interview: “Arkham Horror: Lair Of The Crystal Fang” Author S.A. Sidor

 

With Lair Of The Crystal Fang (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer S.A. Sidor is leading his third trip to the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired world of the board game Arkham Horror. In the following email interview, Sidor discusses what inspired and influenced this cosmic horror novel.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hell’s Well” Author Sean Patrick Hazlett

 

For the latest novella in their ongoing Systema Paradoxa series about cryptids, eSpec Books have enlisted author Sean Patrick Hazlett to write Hell’s Well (paperback, Kindle). Which, as you’ll quickly realize from reading the following email interview he and I did about this science fiction / borderline cosmic horror story, may have been a mistake…for him.

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Exclusive Interview: “Arkham Horror: In The Coils Of The Labyrinth” Author David Annandale

 

As a novel connected to the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired cosmic horror board game Arkham Horror, David Annandale’s Arkham Horror: In The Coils Of The Labyrinth (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) is obviously as inspired and influenced by the writings of the iconic (and problematic) Lovecraft as it is by the game itself. But as Annandale notes in the following email interview about it, this isn’t the first time he’s dealt with this kind of darkness.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Void Ascendant” Author Premee Mohamed

 

With her second-world fantasy novel The Void Ascendant (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Premee Mohamed is concluding the sci-fi, fantasy, cosmic horror series Beneath The Rising that she launched in 2020 with the titular first novel, and continued in 2021 with A Broken Darkness. But as she admits in the following email interview, while Void was not this series’ original ending, it does bring this series to a decisive close.