Short Stories
This New and Poisonous Air
McOmber’s collection of short stories has been likened to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Isak Dinesen. Although, for…
Corsets & Clockwork
Corsets & Clockwork is a short-story anthology of steampunk romances. This was my first foray into the world of steampunk,…
Dancing with Mr. Darcy
Collected in Dancing with Mr. Darcy are the winner of the Jane Austen Short Story Award and nineteen other selections.…
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay is a series of short stories featuring Idella and Avis Hillock and the people who…
Swords from the West
As a young writer and history buff, I loved Harold Lamb, and this reprinting of the seventeen so-called “Crusader stories”…
Call Me Ahab
These nine short stories mix fact and fiction, and most of them concern historical characters with physical disabilities. One of…
Sherlock Holmes: The American Years
This collection of new short stories is inspired by the premise that Sherlock Holmes, at least once but possibly more…
Grinding of the Soul
Prifti’s book is a collection of short stories about life under strict Marxist-Leninist communism in the 20th century. The stories…
Curriculum Vitae
Part fiction, part memoir, Hoffmann’s novel could mean many things to readers, or it could mean nothing. Written as a…
Strange Business
Strange Business is a collection of short stories written about the people of Cedar, Oklahoma, focusing on specific events between…
About our Reviews
Over the last 15 years The Historical Novels Review (the society’s print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 12,000 historical fiction books. We plan to upload them all and make them searchable here.
