Saint Patrick’s Day is one of my all-time favorite holidays, so today, I’m re-posting an article about Stephen R. Lawhead’s Patrick: Son of Ireland. I had little appreciation for Saint Patrick’s story until I began my research for Enoch’s Device. The novel tells the story of two Irish monks who try to prevent the apocalypse at the end…
Robert Masello has become one of my favorite authors of true historical fantasy. The Haunting of H.G. Wells is his fourth novel featuring famous historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker encountering the supernatural in what always proves to be a page-turner. I’m happy to report that Masello’s new novel…
Guy Gavriel Kay is perhaps the most famous writer of what I call “historical” fantasy – that is, fantasy fiction set in a world nearly indistinguishable from our historical own with characters and storylines modeled after actual history. In Sailing to Sarantium, he brings a fictional version of 6th-century Byzantium to life in the first…
Jeff Wheeler has dominated the bestseller chart for historical fantasy for a while now. He does not write historical fantasy in the sense of a story set in the real, historical world, like my novel, Enoch’s Device, or D.B. Jackson’s Thieftaker series. Instead, Wheeler writes what I call “historical” fantasy, much like Guy Gavriel Kay….
I read very little science fiction these days, but at the end of last year, while getting over COVID, I decided to re-read Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain. In doing so, I quickly discovered there’s a sequel to the novel, though it’s not written by Crichton, who passed away in 2008. Here are my thoughts…
Amazon’s bestseller list for fantasy fiction has long featured books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, all about his now-famous character called The Witcher. For years, I passed on those books, but once Netflix brought The Witcher to TV, I decided I had to see what all the hype was about. It still took a while,…
As I do each year, I’m re-publishing my post on the very first Thanksgiving. Happy holidays everyone! Growing up, I never paid much attention to the origin of Thanksgiving. Other than what I may have learned in elementary school, all I recall knowing was that it was a feast between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans sometime…
I was never a huge fan of H.P. Lovecraft. I’d known about his fictional mythology surrounding Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones since the first edition of Deities & Demigods, but I never got around to reading any of his works until much later in life. What I didn’t know at the time was how…
Ever since I discovered the connection between Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot and his Dark Tower series, I’ve always been intrigued by King’s second novel. But I never got around to buying the book until BookBub ran a featured deal this fall. I snapped it up and dove into ‘Salem’s Lot just in time for Halloween….
When I read all of Michael Moorcock’s Elric novels in the early ‘80s, The Fortress of the Pearl was not part of the story. It wasn’t published in the U.S. until 1989, but I missed it. I only learned about it when I began re-reading the Elric books as part of my recent foray into…
One gracious Amazon reviewer recently described Enoch’s Device as “like The Da Vinci Code but set in 997 AD.” I appreciate the comparison. Enoch’s Device is filled with religious mysteries that stretch deep into the past. But there is also a fantasy element to the book, along with an epic scope designed to make it…