The Complete John Silence Stories Algernon Blackwood Dover Publications November 2, 2011 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon Of the traditional British writers of supernatural and ghost tales, I’ve always felt a kinship with Algernon Blackwood. He not only wrote some of the...
Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Edited by Danel Olson Centipede Press July, 2015 Reviewed by Alex Scully The Shining. Two deceptively simple words. In the horror word, those two little words carry such tremendous weight. First, there is...
Varney the Vampire or, The Feast of Blood parts I and II James Malcolm Rymer or Thomas Peckett Prest Dover Publications April 15, 2015 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale If you haven’t seen me in many moons, it’s because I have been reading the epic tome Varney the Vampire....
Beneath Ash and Bone D. Alexander Ward Bedlam Press February 23, 2016 Reviewed by Rose Blackthorn Sheriff Sam Lock is a man who prides himself on his logical thinking and pragmatism, so different from his father who had been sheriff before him. But in the winter of...
The Litter Kevin R. Doyle Night to Dawn Magazine & Books February 2015 Reviewed by Jess Landry Karen Bannister is coming off a really bad year. Estranged from her father and her fiancé dead, she finds solace in her work with the city’s indigent, destitute, and...
Angels of the Silences Simon Bestwick Omnium Gatherum January 12, 2016 Reviewed by Jess Landry Emily and Biff are seventeen and best friends. They have been dead for nine months. Don’t let this short-but-sweet synopsis fool you – there’s so much more that...