Book Review: ARTERIAL BLOOM
Arterial Bloom Edited and illustrated by Mercedes M. Yardley Crystal Lake Publishing (April 3, 2020) Review by Bret McCormick Arterial Bloom is a beautiful book: beautiful in its design, with memorable illustrations, and beautiful in its use of the language. Mercedes...
Short Film: DEBT
A woman realizes what she owes. Short horror movie produced by Jash Pictures, Inc. Starring Bonnie Discepolo.
Zombie Fans Have A Reason To Be Excited From The ‘Train to Busan, Peninsula’ Teaser!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVucSRLLeIM In a film which takes place 4-years after the events of the original 'Train to Busan' we get to see how far South Korea has fallen and what is left of the world after this zombie outbreak! The film was initially scheduled...
INSTANT SWIMMERS by Ronald Malfi
INSTANT SWIMMERS by Ronald Malfi For the first fifty years of his life, Donald Broome enjoyed an existence of predictability and contentment that only a true practitioner of bachelorhood can know. An accountant by both nature and profession, Broome arrived at the firm...
Book Review: DEAD END
Dead End Chris DiLeo JournalStone (March 27, 2020) Reviewed by Bret McCormick When I laid eyes on the cover art for the book Dead End by Chris DiLeo, my first thought was, “I wouldn’t mind having a poster of that hanging on my wall.” Kudos to Don Noble of Rooster...
Book Review: THE REDDENING
THE REDDENING Adam L.G. Nevill Ritual Limited (October 31, 2019) Reviewed by Ray Palen If you enjoy your horror with a historic premise, along with a dash of the gothic thrown in for good measure, you need look no further than this terrific thrill-fest from British...
Update: StokerCon UK and the Bram Stoker Awards®
Many events in the horror world have been rescheduled or postponed in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With that in mind, we have new information on StokerCon UK and the Bram Stoker Awards®. The 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® will now be presented virtually on...
New Release: DEAD END
DEAD END Chris DiLeo JournalStone (March 27, 2020) Home can be a refuge . . . Mike Munacy was eleven years old when he watched his father commit suicide, jumping off the towering hill behind his house to die in the grass at Mike’s feet. Fourteen years later, Mike and...
New Release: DYKE (GEOLOGY)
DYKE (geology) Black Lawrence Press March 2020 Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a small book that tackles...
Short Horror Film: THE THIRD HAND
A lonely night worker discovers a mysterious room which might hold in it his wildest dreams or his worst nightmares. Directed and written by Yoni Weisberg Produced by Margot Douglas Executive Produced by Colin Offland Cinematography by James Watson Edited by Katie...
Book Review: MONGRELS
Mongrels Stephen Graham Jones Wm. Morrow/Harper Collins, 2016 Review by Bret McCormick What’s it like living in a werewolf family? What happens when a werewolf gets old? If werewolves exist, why aren’t we certain of it? How have werewolves adapted to modern...
Book Review: WHISKEY AND OTHER UNUSUAL GHOSTS
Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts S.L. Edwards July 15, 2019 (Gehenna & Hinnom) Reviewed by Bret McCormick It’s been said that the sweet spot for horror fiction is between 1500 and 4000 words. Many of the most famous horror stories fall in line with this...
Short Film: LA NORIA
From seasoned animator Carlos Baena (ILM, Pixar) and a crowd-sourced community of over 100 people, "La Noria" tells the tale of a grieving young boy who one day encounters dark creatures that turn his life upside down. ALTER explores the human condition through warped...
Book Review: SHOUT KILL REVEL REPEAT at NerdGoblin.com
Over at NerdGoblin.com, Erica Ruppert has given Scott R. Jones' Shout Kill Revel Repeat a tremendous review, with praise such as: "Jones does a remarkable job of conveying the utterly alien incomprehensibility of the Lovecraftian cosmos. His characters struggle to...
SUMMER OF LOVECRAFT: Book Review
Summer of Lovecraft Edited by Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Owen Barrass Dark Regions Press (February 9, 2020) Review by Bret McCormick What do you get when you cross the 1960s with the Cthulhu Mythos? Summer of Lovecraft, an anthology edited by Brian M. Sammons and...
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