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The Lighthouse is a tale of simple humanity, but told beautifully

February 14, 2022 Zander Doby 1

There is something about the concept of lighthouses, beacons of safety and warning that shine their light out over the dark and uncaring sea, that elicits a sort of solemn peace. This peace persists in […]

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Catholicism meets H. P. Lovecraft in genre-bending new novel

September 24, 2021 Zander Doby 5

David Pinault’s new novel Providence Blue: A Fantasy Quest (Ignatius Press, 2021) is a portal into places and times both factual and fictional that combines action and explorations of myths ancient and modern that are […]

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Michael O’Brien: “The Sabbatical is a call to stand firm…”

September 12, 2021 Zander Doby 6

Michael D. O’Brien—iconographer, painter, novelist, critic—is the popular author of many best-selling novels, including Father Elijah, Strangers and Sojourners, Elijah in Jerusalem, The Father’s Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, The Lighthouse, and Island […]

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New novel serves up a horrifying dip into alternative history

August 17, 2021 Zander Doby 1

Readers seeking out an existential horror story might not look to Catholic authors and a Catholic publishers. But that is precisely what Fiorella De Maria and K.V. Turley have delivered in This Thing of Darkness, […]

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