Michael Finn's Blog – April 2011 Archive (4)
My Swordhand is Singing
Marcus Sedgewick takes us to a cold lonely place in the 17th Century in this YA style short horror novel. The dead haunt the snow covered forests of Transylvania. An isolated village hides from the dark and what lurks at the shadows… Continue
Added by Michael Finn on April 29, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments
A Red Herring Without Mustard
This third outing of Alan Bradley's irrepressible Flavia De Luce gets the series back up to top form. Flavia saves the life of an old Gypsy fortune-teller who has been beaten and left for dead. Ok our young heroine had almost managed to burn her to a crisp the previous evening but the less said about such details the better. Flavia sets… Continue
Added by Michael Finn on April 27, 2011 at 6:58pm — No Comments
The Wendigo
A Dr. Cathcart and his nephew Simpson go hunting for moose in the Canadian wilderness, accompanied by two Canadian guides and a native American cook.On the surface this classic horror story by Algernon Blackwood revisits the sort of set-up that worked so well in The Willows. There are other similarities but they feel… Continue
Added by Michael Finn on April 19, 2011 at 2:56pm — No Comments
87th Precinct
An early 87th Precinct story. This one promises rather more noir than it actually delivers. Its opening pages are the hook that tries its darndest to stop you putting the book back onto the spindle and choosing some other more tempting paperback. And even though it's many decades since this one saw anything other than thrift sale piles or charity shop boxes, I can appreciate why… Continue
Added by Michael Finn on April 18, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments
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