Cold Cuts 2017 Robert Payne Cabeen Omnium Gatherum Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Robert Payne Cabeen’s Cold Cuts is unlike any other novel I have read. It begins much as one might expect from an intense horror novel: an unnamed man, bound to a bed, about to suffer...
Sharkantula 2016 Essel Pratt J. Ellington Ashton Press Reviewed by Michael R. Collings AmalgaMegaMutaMonsters Amok The Greeks created an elegant, graceful the word for it: chimæra. An imaginary monster whose body is compounded of parts from other creatures. Sphinx—a...
Cthulhu Blues Douglas Wynne JournalStone 2017 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings In Cthulhu Blues, Douglas Wynne brings to a satisfying close the apocalyptic events begun in Red Equinox and continued in Black January, thus completing the SPECTRA Files trilogy. The series...
Snaked: Deep Sea Rising Duncan McGeary Cohesion Press 2017 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Some years ago, Dean Koontz spoke to my Creative Writing class at Pepperdine. In a discussion afterward, he talked at some length about giving readers an appropriate...
Don’t Write It Down: A Rainbow Noir Novel C.E. Wilson 2017 Live and Love the Fantasy Publications Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Don’t Write It Down: Episode One in the Rainbow Noir Series (A Light Horror Series) is a long title for a relatively short novel/novella;...