Steve Savile

Advantages: Savile's text and characters are luminous.
Disadvantages: None that I can think of...

...Steve Savile writes with a lyricism and versatility that marks him immediately as a writer to be treasured on your shelf. 'Secret Life of Colors', his debut novel, establishes without doubt that the many talents he has exhibited in his short fiction transfer gracefully to the longer form, weaving a precise and poetic narrative through, in this case, a series of New York City murders. When private detective Gabriel Rush snaps an innocent photo of a beautiful prostitute he is drawn into a violent series of apparently motiveless murders. On developing the photograph, he discovers a mark on her cheek, a mark not visible to the naked eye, a mark scarring the mutilated corpses left by the Trinity killer. As the mystery deepens, he discovers that the killer's fate is bound inextricably to his own past and future. Further, when the nature... Read review

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Advantages: Fione themed horror, from some of the most exciting horror authors around today...
Disadvantages: A challenging read in places.

...The debut publication from the now burgeoning Darktales Publications, this themed collection, edited by Victor Heck, is the first in a series of four anthologies, each dealing with a separate wing of the Asylum. Here we have the delusional and hallucinatory, those whose minds have derailed from the normal path to explore notions both terrifying and bizarre. A very fine collection of authors has been gathered here, including the likes of Douglas Clegg, Steve Savile, J.F. Gonzalez, Sephera Giron, and more. Thirteen stories in all. It's a challenging and disturbing read. Among my favourite stories we have Giron's 'Release', about a woman whose bloodletting needs take self-mutilation to new heights. '238' from Butch Miller follows a man's insectile obsessions along some nasty paths. 'The Machinery of the Night' from Douglas Clegg... Read review

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Advantages: Very funny and insightful
Disadvantages: Not as good as reading complete Wilde

...a taste: LIFE “One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.” - The Picture of Dorian Gray WOMEN “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything” - A Woman of No Importance MEN “I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime” - Mrs Allonby, A Woman of No Importance PEOPLE IN GENERAL “People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately” - Letter from Paris, May 1900 LOVE, MARRIAGE “The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding” - Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime PARENTS, RELATIONS, FRIENDSHIP “I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all... Read review

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