Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age July 25th, 2017 Chronicle Books Reviewed by David Goudsward Ghostly Tales is a collection of ghost stories by mostly English authors. Most of the stories have been widely reprinted and would be familiar to a...
Death and Douglas J. W. Ocker Sky Pony Press October 2017 Reviewed by David Goudsward Douglas Mortimer is a small town twelve-year-old with an obsession with death. Well, obsession is not the right word – his life is immersed in death. His family lives above the...
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History Bill Schutt Algonquin Books February 14, 2017 Reviewed by David Goudsward Someday, some editor with more money that sense is going to ask me to compile a list of reference books that should be in the library of every horror...
Northern Frights – An Anthology by the Horror Writers of Maine Edited by David Price Grinning Skull Press April 2017 Reviewed by David Goudsward Let’s face it, between Stephen King and Rick Hautala, Maine is already a landscape of nightmares. Especially if...
Sweeney Todd – The String of Pearls: The Original Victorian Classic by James Malcolm Rymer or Thomas Peckett Prest Dover Publications August 19, 2015 Reviewed by David Goudsward Is there anyone with a fondness for horror who isn’t familiar with the tonsorial...