![]() ![]() ![]() Look for the many Easter eggs tying the novel back to the father of sword-and-sorcery. Howard’s “Worms of the Earth,” featuring the offspring of that one night quid pro quo between Bran Mak Morn and the witch. WO: An excellent “modern” sequel to Robert E. Gees was a private investigator whose cases often involved the supernatural-in this case, pre-Druidic magic and an immortal sorcerer.” KEW: “The best of Mann’s ‘Gees’ series, most of which are very good indeed. Not to mention, The Devil-Doll, staring two great actors, Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O’Sullivan, is an excellent adaptation of Merritt’s novel. A fantastic read by the man who influenced all the greats. ![]() WO: Merritt takes first place in my ranking, and deservedly so. KEW: “Best known for his lost-race fantasy novels, this time Merritt is equally brilliant at modern horror, in a tale of murderous dolls animated by the souls of their human counterparts. I decided to read all 13 for myself, rank order them, and provide both Wagner’s short review along with my own. There is no indication that he rank ordered these stories. Karl Edward Wagner published his famous list of 13 Best Supernatural Horror Novels in Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine in the May-June 1983 issue. Karl Edward Wagner’s 13 Best Supernatural Horror Novels Ranked ![]()
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![]() ![]() Trust is hard to come by in a town known for its monsters, but so is time… When an old skeleton and a fresh corpse turn a grief errand into a murder investigation, the unlikely Eli is the only person Julien can turn to. And hasn’t taken his brooding gaze off Eli since he’s arrived. He’s spent years cultivating a persona to disguise his origins, but for the first time ever he’s been entrusted with a real responsibility-and he plans to take that seriously.Įven if the handsome tourist who claims to be in town for some R & R is clearly on a hunt for all things paranormal. And now the manager of a haven for rebel pack runaways. Perhaps most especially the strange, magnetic manager of a deserted retreat that’s nearly as odd as its staff.Įli Smith is a lot of things: thief, werewolf, glamour-puss, liar. The key to his brother’s mysterious last days might be found in this tiny town, and now Julien’s amateur investigation is starting to unearth things the locals would rather keep buried. I devoured this book, and it will easily end up on my Best Of list this year.īlurb: Julien Doran arrived in sleepy Maudit Falls, North Carolina, with a heart full of hurt and a head full of questions. Category: Paranormal, Murder Mystery, Romantic SuspenseĪt a Glance: Pack of Lies is, simply stated, a fast paced and action packed mystery elegantly intertwined with the relationship between a prickly and secretive Eli and a secretive and captivated Julien. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sun comes from behind that hill every morning. Indeed, no one of the whole tribe had ever seen a white man. ![]() At that time the Shoshone had never even heard of the United States, which was a very new country. But this was in 1794, long before Wyoming became state. The valley was high up in the Rocky Mountains, in what is now the state of Wyoming. These hills were all around the valley where the tepees, or skin tents, of the tribe were. He waved his hand toward one of the rocky hills. ![]() You will be fast asleep when I start off in that direction. No, hunting trips are not for girls, he went on. How can I answer three questions at once? he asked teasingly. Where are you going? When will you start? May I go, too? Hunting! That meant he was almost grown-up. Travels Fast-he was several years older than Sacagawea-had come up and was listening. It was almost shapeless, but Bird Girl could see that it looked like a soft slipper. She shook out the deerskin on which she was working. ![]() Use your eyes, Bird Girl, said her mother. What are you doing, Mother? the girl asked. Her mother was sitting on the ground in front of the tepee. An Indian girl of the Shoshone tribe, she was about seven years old. Her black hair hung about her bare shoulders. SACAGAWEA CAME OUT of the tepee into the bright sunlight. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is working class resentment rooted in male entitlement and white supremacy, which determines this victory. ![]() It is not simply the resentment of a white working class that feels “left behind” which explains the electoral triumph of the far right, she argues. In a majestic example of theoretical sophistication and simplicity, Crenshaw uses the notion of intersectional failure to explain the election of Donald Trump. In this interview, Kimberlé Crenshaw offers not only a crash course in intersectionality for our readers, but tells us why intersectionality is vital to transform the current political situation. Over the past thirty years, intersectionality has become an essential analytical tool to explore how multiple structures of oppression shape individual vulnerability. ![]() On that occasion, her goal was to challenge the limitations of anti-discrimination laws that looked at gender and race as separated and mutually exclusive categories. Kimberly Crenshaw developed the notion of intersectionality in 1989 in her paper “De-marginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti-discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”. I met Kimberlé Crenshaw at the Sorbonne University in Paris in January 2019, at a conference organized by Marta Dell’Aquila and Eraldo Souza dos Santos to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of intersectionality. ![]() |