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Know Your Memes: Toastboy
David Firth is a 26 year old British web animator and musician. His work is frequently dark, strange and/or silly, and has appeared on a number of TV shows, most notably Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe....
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Hidden Gems: The Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft
American author HP Lovecraft is widely known nowadays, but far fewer people have actually read his work than have heard of him. Rightly celebrated now as one of the founding fathers of the horror...
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We Are The Strange
We Are The Strange is a bewildering movie about a lost animé girl and a little doll boy questing for ice-cream, in a dream-scape full of evil monsters and giant robots. But the plot is not the point....
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Ridiculous
After yesterday’s heavy offering, I thought I’d give you something a little lighter and more entertaining — death. To be precise, ridiculous death. “1001 Ridicuous Ways to Die” by David Southwell and...
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Hidden Gems: Nochnoi Dozor by Sergei Lukyanenko
Lukyanenko was a child psychiatrist in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Alma-Ata, until near non-existent wages forced him out. Fortunately, his excellent writing was just starting to pay off, and he has...
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Hidden Gems: Last Call by Tim Powers
Tim Powers is as incredible writer. I’m insanely jealous of his talent, particularly the way his mind works. It’s comforting, as a writer, to pick up a successful book and think to yourself, “Ah, I...
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Hidden Gems: Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
“Mythago Wood” was British writer Robert Holdstock’s artistic and commercial breakthrough, and won him the first of his two World Fantasy Awards. Richly deserved it was, too; this is beautiful, eerie,...
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Hidden Gems: The Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence by Steven Erikson
Canadian author Steven Erikson launched his Malazan Book of the Fallen series with The Gardens of the Moon in 1999. Word spread quickly on the internet, and won the book some significant attention in...
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Hidden Gems: World War Z
World War Z was published in 2006. An oral history of the zombie war, it was written by Max Brooks, the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Brooks cut his teeth on the Saturday Night Live writing team...
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Dissecting 2009
If there’s one thing the blogosphere is good at, it’s churning out ‘Top #’ lists. I did think about throwing one together here at Ghostwoods, but the blinding futility of it all stopped me dead in my...
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