Bringing up the Irish contingent in the Victorian ghost story sub-genre is Sheridan Le Fanu. He's a well-known writer of early spook sto...

Man, it’s good to come back to Flashman. After a period of trying to broaden my palate with other popular historical fiction writers of vary...

Well, this is a change. After plodding through the meticulously recreated (in military terms at least) 19 th -century of the Sharpe books,...

In empire-set fiction, a classic set-up for European folks living in exotic climes is to have the main characters be missionaries. Missionar...

As I've noted before, Cornwell's famous Sharpe novels seem to me to exist in a bit of a cultural and historical vacuum. The author ...

Ok, so what if I'm always willing to give an Irishman another chance? So Dracula didn't do it for me when I finally got around to r...

Being the first of several possible reviews of 90’s video-game movie adaptations! Fans who were at the right age when Street Fighter ...