After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to [...]
by Mike The Last Voyage Of The Demeter, Nosferatu (Robert Eggers), Sinners, Dracula (Luc Besson), all in the span of a year or two. My best friend's favorite book is what started it all, and as I actually write this we are discussing how and why it is the most adapted [...]
“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began her stories—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life [...]
When Margot isn't at school, Mama and Margot spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies. But Mama's want is stronger [...]
Ambessa Medarda is a woman to be feared. She has led conquests and armies. She has slain legendary beasts. She has made grave sacrifices in pursuit of glory during her ascent up the ranks. And for this she was rewarded: She entered the realm of death and was granted a [...]
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the [...]
The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter [...]
Alice Law has sacrificed everything to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and [...]
In the nineties, six teenagers disappeared into a fantasy role-playing game. Only five returned. Nearly thirty years later, these broken adults are dragged back to discover the game isn’t finished with them yet. Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + the Divine) and Stephanie Hans (We Called Them Giants)’s award-winning, critical hit [...]
In Memoriam: Derk Sauer On July 31, 2025, we heard that Derk Sauer, founder of The Moscow Times, died. This brought memories of our participation in the 1997 Moscow Book Fair (read our blog post about it here). We ran a small ad in The Moscow Times announcing that the American [...]
