Friday Fiction: Corner Wall Blues
Are you in a room, dear reader?
If so, look at a corner. Isn’t it cool how perfectly the two walls mesh into one another? There’s no space between them.
By Brandon Scott on Mar 21st, 2025
Are you in a room, dear reader?
If so, look at a corner. Isn’t it cool how perfectly the two walls mesh into one another? There’s no space between them.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 15th, 2023
Tantalus Depths is the kind of book that the right audience will love. It’s a solid combination of cosmic horror, somewhat-hard science fiction, and has sprinkles of space epic. And perhaps its biggest triumph is how it balances those three things in an organic, unfolding way that never feels like a hard genre shift.
By Brandon Scott on Mar 13th, 2023
Tantalus Depths is the kind of book that the right audience will love. It’s a solid combination of cosmic horror, somewhat-hard science fiction, and has sprinkles of space epic. And perhaps its biggest triumph is how it balances those three things in an organic, unfolding way that never feels like a hard genre shift.
By Brandon Scott on Nov 25th, 2022
Hello there, dear readers! Are you excited!? We’ve got two stories this week, and we have a piece of spine-tingling horror for our second one.
By Brandon Scott on Sep 21st, 2022
American Elsewhere resists review—because it’s massive. The paperback is 662 pages. That’s Stephen King tome levels. That’s epic fantasy size.
By Brandon Scott on Aug 3rd, 2022
I Am In Eskew doesn’t fit into the usual framework by which I’ve recently rated horror podcasts.
By Brandon Scott on Apr 1st, 2022
Curiosity is perhaps one of the strongest human traits. Deep in our bones, it sits, demanding we know more about everything.
By Brandon Scott on Mar 25th, 2022
On the beach, you’ll see many strange sights. Messages scrawled in the sand. Birds flocking in artificial half-light with something caught in their bills.
By Brandon Scott on Mar 18th, 2022
The strangest of events can interrupt a pleasant night. In part two, our unnamed beachgoer finds their calm turning ever more surreal.
By Brandon Scott on Mar 11th, 2022
Have you been to the beach at night? It’s unlike anything else in the world.
By Brandon Scott on Mar 9th, 2022
The Magnus Archives is a podcast—and after 200 episodes, I’ve listened to the whole thing. Twice before, I’ve spoken about the series and how it progressed, and now we can bring the talk home to roost.
By Brandon Scott on Feb 9th, 2022
The Between is a novel of interesting ideas, but sloppy execution.