Real-Time Reviews (DFL Dreamcatchers): supporting the known and unknown authors of good imaginative literature in a ground-breaking leitmotif / gestalt fashion from Nov 2008.
The list below shows all my reviews in 2013/15, continuing
the list that shows all my reviews from 2008 to 2012 HERE.
Reviews below also available in print: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/rtrs-as-books/ and their second copies are shown at http://weirdmonger.livejournal.com/ or http://weirdmonger.blogspot.co.uk
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January 2013: FIRST NOVEL and QUILT by Nicholas Royle (HERE.)
February 2013: DEHISCENCE by D. P. Watt
February 2013: The Last Gold of Decayed Stars by Colin Insole
February 2013: TALLEST STORIES by Rhys Hughes
February 2013: O Altítudo by Thomas STRØMSHOLT
February 2013: The Sea Change & Other Stories by Helen Grant
March 2013: THE NEW FATE by Jonathan Wood
March 2013: Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot*
March 2013: BFS JOURNAL Winter 2012 / 2013
March 2013: THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN – Thomas Mann*
March 2013: Black Static #33
March 2013: INTERZONE #245
March 2013: ‘Onion Songs’ by Steve Rasnic Tem
April 2013: Star Kites – Mark Valentine
April 2013: The Madman of Tosterglope – Louis Marvick
April 2013: Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot*
April 2013: The Inmates – John Cowper Powys*
May 2013: Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #43
May 2013: JANE – by PF Jeffery (on-going RTR)
May 2013: SPIN – by Nina Allan
May 2013: WHITSTABLE – Stephen Volk
May 2013: DEFEATED DOGS – Quentin S. Crisp
May 2013: Black Static #34
May 2013: Interzone #246
June 2013: Orphans on Granite Tides – Adam S. Cantwell (not real-time)#
June 2013: The Quarry by Iain Banks.
June 2013: Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce.
June 2013: The Adjacent by Christopher Priest.
July 2013: Virtue in Danger by Reggie Oliver.
July 2013: Rustblind and Silverbright
July 2013: Black Static #35
July 2013: Interzone #247
July 2013: dada gnosis by dt ghetu (a rtr with no words)
July 2013: Horror Without Victims – An Editor’s Commentary
August 2013: The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange by Rhys Hughes
August 2013: The Transfiguration of Mister Punch
September 2013: Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #44
September 2013: Black Static #36
September 2013: Interzone #248
September 2013: The Light is Alone – Thomas Phillips
October 2013: Aornos by Avalon Brantley
October 2013: The Emperor’s Pavement by John Howard
October 2013: Cities and Thrones and Powers by John Howard
October 2013: The Art of Ventriloquism by AJ Kirby.
October 2013: THE MERCURY ANNUAL / PILGRIMS AT THE WHITE HORIZON by Michael Wyndham Thomas
October 2013: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (a real-time novel taken back towards its static core)
November 2013: Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #45
November 2013: The Burning Circus edited by Johnny Mains
November 2013: MEMBER by Michael Cisco
November 2013: The Young Dictator by Rhys Hughes
November 2013: Flowers of the Sea by Reggie Oliver
November 2013: Report From The Interior by Paul Auster
November 2013: Elegies & Requiems by Colin Insole
25 Nov 2013: SABBATICESS – announcement
Dec 2013: The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (not real-time)
Dec 2013: Stoner by John Williams (not real-time)
December 2013: Transactions of the Flesh edited by D.P. Watt and Peter Holman
December 2013: Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane
December 2013: The Heaven Tree & Other Stories by Christopher Harman
December 2013 / January 2014: Crimewave 12: Hurts
January 2014: Black Static #37
January 2014: Interzone #249
January 2014: Delicate Toxins
January 2014: Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #46
January 2014: Strange Tales IV
January 2014: Terror Tales of the Seaside
January 2014: Black Static #38
January 2014: Interzone #250
January 2014: Dogs With Their Eyes Shut by Paul Meloy
February 2014: MENACE by Gary Fry
February 2014: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce #
February 2014: BFS Journal #10
February 2014: Tales of the Grotesque by L.A. Lewis
February 2014: Flash in the Pantheon by Rhys Hughes
February 2014: THE GALAXY CLUB by Brendan Connell
February 2014: HERE WITH THE SHADOWS by Steve Rasnic Tem
March 2014: A Dead Church by Harold Billings
March 2014: Rhysop’s Fables
March 2014: Letters of Oblivion by Andrew Condous
March 2014: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by HP Lovecraft
March 2014: TRISTRAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne.
March 2014: Black Static #39
March 2014: Interzone #251
March 2014: Every Short Story (1951-2012) by Alasdair Gray
March 2014: The Horror Fields edited by Matt Leyshon
April 2014: The Function Room: The Kollection by Matt Leyshon
April 2014: The Wide, Carnivorous Sky & Other Monstrous Geographies by John Langan
April 2014: Mr. Gaunt and other uneasy encounters by John Langan
April 2014: Journeys Beyond Advice – Rhys Hughes
April 2014: North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
May 2014: Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #47
May 2014: The Dark Return of Time by R.B. Russell
May 2014: Black Static #40
May 2014: Cold Turkey – Carole Johnstone
May 2014: Descended Suns Resuscitate by Avalon Brantley
May 2014: The Moon King – Neil Williamson
May 2014: Interzone #252
Interim reviews during a summer 2014 sabbatical:
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon – Thomas Pynchon pinched my next novel.
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann – momentous and monumental
American Pastoral by Philip Roth – genes with their gloves off
Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth – a seriously adult book about a puppeteer
This Boy by Alan Johnson
THE SPECTRAL LINK by Thomas Ligotti
ORFEO by Richard Powers
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31.8.14
Tomorrow being 1st September, I intend to resume my daily real-time reviews of Rhys Hughes’ ‘Flash in the Pantheon’ flash fictions and ‘Rhysop’s Fables’ together with my on-going Dreamcatching of books purchased during my now completed sabbatical.
Burnt Black Suns – Simon Strantzas
Strange Gateways – Simon Kurt Unsworth
Fearful Symmetries – Edited by Ellen Datlow
Ana Kai Tangata – Scott Nicolay
Harvesting the Moon – Ursula Pflug
Infra Noir – Zagava: Ex Occidente Press
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies – Clark Ashton Smith
16.9.14
Black Static 41 & 42, Interzone 253 & 254
Oct 2014
Captains Stupendous – Rhys Hughes
The Lunar Tickle by Rhys Hughes
The Grimscribe’s Puppets – A Season in Carcosa : two books edited by Joe Pulver
After the Fires – Stories by Ursula Pflug
‘Horror Uncut’: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease
The Stream & The Torrent by Brian Howell
The Monk’s Bible by Harold Billings
(J by Howard Jacobson and The Children Act by Ian McEwan: here)
The Sound of White Ants by Brian Howell
The King In Yellow – by Robert W. Chambers
November 2014
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #48 & 49
WRITTEN IN DARKNESS – Mark Samuels
Interzone 255 – Black Static 43
Year’s Best Weird Fiction – Volume One
December 2014
In the Land of Time – Lord Dunsany
DREAMS of OURSELVES (anthology)
Encounters – Early Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
Wraiths by Mark Valentine
A Distillate of Heresy by Damian Murphy
January 2015
Kafka in Brontëland by Tamar Yellin
At The Hairdresser’s – Anita Brookner
Bone Idle in the Charnel House by Rhys Hughes
Orpheus on the Underground by Rhys Hughes
‘Ancient Sorceries’ and other chilling tales – by Algernon Blackwood
This Thing Called Literature by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
February 2015
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Master of Clouds – Howard Stephen Watts
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #50
Thirty Tributes to Calvino – Rhys Hughes
March 2015
The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Three Impostors – Arthur Machen
The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth
Sensorama edited by Allen Ashley
Black Static #45 / Interzone #257
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
April 2015
ONLY CONNECT collaborations by DF and Gordon Lewis
The Lustre of Time by John Howard
OUT STACK and other places by Gary Couzens
Strange Tales V (Tartarus)
The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud
Bastards of the Absolute – Adam S. Cantwell
Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Allan Poe
The Haunter of the Dark – HP Lovecraft
The Sacred Fount by Henry James
May 2015
Splinters of Horn and Ivory – Thomas Strømsholt
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
THUS WERE THEIR FACES – Silvina Ocampo
THE FAMILIAR – Mark Z. Danielewski
Interzone 258 / Black Static 46
THE STRANGERS and other writings By Robert Aickman
The Imperishable Sacraments by Damian Murphy
June 2015
The King in Yellow Tales, Vol. 1 by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
SOLILOQUY FOR PAN (Egaeus Press)
July 2015
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
THEBOYWHOplayedWITHSHADOWS by Quentin S. Crisp
golem of bucharest by Andrew Condous
The Beginning of the End by Ian Parkinson
Seven NIGHTJAR PRESS publications (Alison Moore, Conrad Williams, Hilary Scudder, Elizabeth Stott, Tom Fletcher, David Rose, Christopher Kenworthy).
THE SATYR & Other Tales by Stephen J. Clark
A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
In The Lovecraft Museum by Steve Rasnic Tem
A Head Full Of Ghosts – Paul Tremblay
August 2015
The Nameless Dark – T. E. Grau
The King in the Golden Mask by Marcel Schwob
Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
Cannibals of West Papua By Brendan Connell
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote LIST HALTED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PAGE.
The above regularly updated list continues HERE
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Most of the above real-time reviews can be purchased in printed book form HERE
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