Q&A by Ray Palen Your career as a horror writer has been prolific with stories touching upon several different genres. Which writers or styles were your primary influences before you started writing your own work? There had been a few before I wrote my...
The Searching Dead Ramsey Campbell Flame Tree Press (February 16, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen Originally released in the UK back in 2016, publisher Flame Tree Press will be releasing all three titles in this trilogy as part of their Fiction Without Frontiers campaign....
TALES FROM THE HINTERLAND Melissa Albert Flatiron Books (January 12, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen What author Melissa Albert has accomplished with her delightful collection of stories entitled TALES FROM THE HINTERLAND is something that I hope is one of the most talked...
Reviewer Ray Palen’s Q & A with Mike Thorn, author of Shelter for the Damned What authors influenced you growing up? Who are you reading now? As a young kid, I was really excited by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and R. L. Stine. Discovering Stephen King as...
Shelter for the Damned Mike Thorn JournalStone (February 26, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen Mike Thorn clearly knows his horror. For his Master’s thesis in English Literature, he analyzed the role of epistemophobia in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness. Clever readers...
