Friday Fiction: The Boy Who Never Left The Carnival! (Part 3)
The end of a story is not the end for the characters. As promised, the boy never left the carnival. But just because he never left, doesn’t mean there’s not a little more story to tell.
By Brandon Scott on Dec 3rd, 2021
The end of a story is not the end for the characters. As promised, the boy never left the carnival. But just because he never left, doesn’t mean there’s not a little more story to tell.
By Brandon Scott on Dec 1st, 2021
Well, it took almost six months, but we’re to the final canonical Fazbear Frights book. The only one left is the odd Felix the Shark book, which won’t be out until next year. So, in the meantime, let’s look over Prankster.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 29th, 2021
Free Guy is a mess of a movie, a strange, all-over-the-place insanity of a film. It follows one plotline, a standard Matrix-style idea—and then fails to have one genre anymore.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 26th, 2021
The carnival is so very big, and we are inside it now, well and truly.
The new game and story expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Legacy of the Sith, is right around the corner! Recently, the developers held a livestream to share story teases, game expansion details and give away some freebies and we have all the deets compiled for you right here. But first, the free stuff….
By Brandon Scott on Nov 22nd, 2021
I’d not read anything by T. Kingfisher before this novel, but given the grace of the prose, The Hollow Places will not be the last. She’s shown her sureness within both this subgenre and in the art of simply telling a good story.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 19th, 2021
Dear reader, have you ever been to the circus or a carnival? It seems like more people think of such places as ghostly, ghastly, or spooky instead of their original function.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 17th, 2021
The film scene—and, by extension, the trailer scene—is ramping up for the holidays and the new year. We’ve got a bunch of franchise films, standalones, and odd ducks coming soon. But, before the movies properly arrive, let’s look at the trailers for three of them.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 15th, 2021
The thing about reviewers and critics is that we sometimes get overwhelmed with the sameness of media—and thus crave anything unique.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 12th, 2021
We promised you a future, dear reader, but we never said how far forward it was going to be.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 10th, 2021
To call Circle an intense film is to undersell it. Utilizing almost only a single location, this death game story touches upon politics, human nature, mercy, and bigotry. It uses a very simple premise and plays it straight and is one of the best-paced films I’ve seen in a long time.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 8th, 2021
Calling Harrow Lake a disappointment is perhaps too strong a phrase, but the book does fail to deliver in a few key aspects. There was a missing ingredient, a piece withheld, that made it appear mismanaged.