Frances Carden

About Frances

Frances is the author of the horror novella The Mine. She has also been published in Abundant Grace; Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and other Magical Fiction for Adults; Answers I’ll Accept: True Accounts of Online Dating; 20 Something Magazine; and Wisteria Magazine. She wrote for Epinions.com for eight years. Frances is currently working on a dark fantasy/horror novel called Plague Town.

Frances has a Masters in Fiction Writing from Johns Hopkins  and works as a technical writer during the day, where she attempts to make software exciting.

Frances’ Reviews

Dune

Dune

Fear is the Mind Killer, and Dune is the Mind Number Author: Frank Herbert Dune has long been on my list ...
Bedbugs

Bedbugs

Infestation & Madness Author: Ben H. Winters Boy meets girl. Boy and girl have adorable daughter. Girl quits job to be ...
Wednesday's Child

Wednesday’s Child

Community Secrets and Unlikable Characters Authors: Deborah and Joel Shlian Leigh Novak has left the stress of a city emergency room ...
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

The Fungus Among Us Author: Merlin Sheldrake Can we just agree that fungi are amazing? They are beautiful and deadly, otherworldly ...
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder

I Loved It. It's Dumb. Sorry Not Sorry. Author: Joanne Fluke Hannah is back, layering on the glucose in this frenzied ...
Upgrade

Upgrade

Science, Sincerity, and the Super Humans Author: Blake Crouch Logan Ramsay’s mom was a brilliant scientist, but she caused worldwide starvation ...
Cruel Prince, The

Cruel Prince, The

The Way of Faerie Author: Holly Black Most fairy tales – most real, unvarnished fairy tales – begin with blood ...
Cold Snap

Cold Snap

Vikings, Victory, and Vices Author: Codi Schneider Before I recount this tale, an introduction. You may call me Bijou. Though Brynhild ...
Dead Wake

Dead Wake

Secrets of the Past, Burdens of the Present Author: Dawn Lee Mckenna When the local florists tear down a wall, ...
Maid, The

Maid, The

Quirky Maids and Campy Conundrums Author: Nita Prose Molly the Maid works at the Regency Hotel. Molly is obsessed with rules, ...
Snobs

Snobs

British Aristocracy, Gold-Digging, and Snobbery in the 90s Author: Julian Fellowes From the author who created Downton Abbey and Gosford ...
Daughter of Doctor Moreau, The

Daughter of Doctor Moreau, The

A Less Animalistic Retelling Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia He claims to be running a sanatorium in the Yaxaktun jungle, but what ...
The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

Spooky Sleuths & Haunted Mystery Author: Alice Kimberly The recently widowed Penelope Thornton-McClure has decided to do what she never could ...
My Heart is a Chainsaw

My Heart is a Chainsaw

“Is it really winning if everybody dies?” Author: Stephen Graham Jones Jade Daniels is your proverbial, never-going-to-fit in teenager living in ...
Bon Bon Voyage

Bon Bon Voyage

High Seas and Shenanigans Author: Nancy Fairbanks What’s better than eating the finest cuisine and indulging in the most decadent kind ...
Slewfoot

Slewfoot

The Devil Who Became a Friend Author: Brom Abitha has problems with authority, with tradition, with piety, with a silent, docile ...
Paradise Club

Paradise Club

A Truly Evil Book: Don't Read Author: Tim Meyer Paradise Club takes disconnecting to a whole new level. Your phone gets ...
Dead Sea

Dead Sea

Dead Sea Author: Brian Keene Lamar’s world has gone to hell, and it’s not just because he lost his job and ...
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in a Drug Induced Psychotic Haze Author: Lewis Carroll I’ve been wanting to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland since ...
Necroscope

Necroscope

Spies, Necromancers, and the Undead Author: Brian Lumley It’s Cold War days and the soviets have a secret program with a ...