The Cthulhu Helix Umehara Katsufumi; Translated by Jim Hubbert Kurodahan Press (August 31, 2023) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale The Cthulhu Helix is a warning of the dangers of genetic tampering, especially when science cannot fathom the creativity of nature and its...
LaundryLegs Rob Smales Weird House Press (March 20, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale Humans have never been able to answer the age-old question of whether God has a sense of humor, but readers know that Rob Smales does. LaundryLegs continues Smales’ tradition of...
Wicked Sick: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers Kristi Petersen Schoonover and Scott Goudsward (eds.) Wicked Creative (May 4, 2023) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale The New England Horror Writers (NEHW) hit another one out of the park (Fenway, of course) with...
Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising Victor A. Liaguno (ed.) Crystal Lake Publishing (June 21, 2023) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Don’t let the rainbow fool you—it is a dark one. The rainbow is a reminder of highs and lows, of starting points and of falling back....
The Trick Douglas Ford Madness Heart Press (May 14, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale The Trick is an exciting read, and I devoured it with a surprising quickness. Ford writes of the surreal, yet a reader is eased into every plot point so that the logic of the story is...