Kyle White finds that in Phillips’ The Engine’s Child, the magic is in the prose as much as the story.
Issue: November 2008
Enchantment
There were no sentinels. Aikir looked for traps and found none. He didn’t spot any winged demons, either.
They reached the end of the staircase and an antechamber. Inside, moth-ravaged tapestries [...]
The Devil and Strap Buckner
Down around Matagorda, folks love to tell of the time old Satan himself paid a visit to Texas, and found it too hot for his liking. What spoiled his trip, [...]
What Would Luminael Do
Vampires like lofts. It’s a bat thing.
Roland de Courtenay lives on the third floor of the Wilcott Building, a crumbling faux-Tudor edifice shouldered on both sides by twin semi-detacheds. Vines [...]
Pandemonium, by Daryl Gregory
Our staff book reviewer dives into Pandemonium, and finds new novelist Daryl Gregory has a way with madness.
Riders of the Dust-Gray Steppe
I saw the witch first.
I sat on the constabulary porch, eating my musk-ox sandwich.
Heavy clouds bellied down over Rime. Mist swirled. I made out only a gray shape loping in [...]
Every Last Drop, by Charlie Huston
Our new Nonfiction Editor checks into Charlie Huston’s latest Joe Pitt novel, Every Last Drop, where the author digs further into the modern world of vampires in the old school style of detective noir.