If you've been looking for a novel that riffs on Scooby-Doo, landing somewhere in the overlapping middle ground of piss-take and loving riff counterpoised with small-town Lovecraftian badness, with side helpings of awesome doggo, bildungsromain, and lesbian romance, look no further--this is the book that's been missing in your life. Even if you aren't looking for such a novel, this is very much worth reading: The prose is frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and there's deeper stuff lurking in it (and that's not just the abandoned mine).
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
This really just flat didn't work for me. I thought it was going to something other than it was, I guess. I should have taken a closer...

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A neat little Horror novel (big shock on the genre, there, I'm sure) that plays some interesting games with PTSD and identity, with ma...
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Reading this novel reminded me a good deal of reading Processed Cheese . America Fantastica is more subtle, and the points it's makin...
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Oh, gawds, this novel starts as a bit of a mess and wraps up like someone who read too much Naturalistic fiction and decided to go with no...
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