Thirty Hours With a Corpse and Other Tales of the Grand Guignol Maurice Level (Edited by S.T. Joshi) Dover Publications March 29, 2016 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Maurice Level (1875-1926) was a French writer — now largely forgotten — whose work was associated with the...
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (hardcover) Mary Shelley Illustrated by Nino Carbé Calla Editions, an imprint of Dover Publications April, 2016 Reviewed by Jess Landry If you’re a fan of horror literature, then you most likely know about Mary Shelley’s...
Pretty Little Dead Girls Mercedes M. Yardley Crystal Lake Publishing March 4, 2016 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale From the very first line of author Mercedes M. Yardley’s fairy tale-esque novel, “Bryony Adams was the type of girl who got murdered,” readers are...
Scar City Joel Lane Eibonvale Press October, 2015 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi A posthumous short story collection by the late Joel Lane (whose untimely death has deprived the literary scene of one of the best contemporary writers of dark, speculative and weird...
The Gate at Lake Drive (Book 1: Dillon the Monster Dick Series) Shaun Meeks IFWG Publishing October, 2015 Reviewed by Jess Landry Dillon is a Monster Dick. A Monster Private Eye that is. In the vein of Clive Barker’s Harry D’Amour, Dillon takes care of things that go...
Goodnight, My Sweet Vince Churchill Dark Recesses Press 2014 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Vince Churchill’s Goodnight, My Sweet, reads a bit like a great-grandchild of Stephen King’s early ‘Richard Bachman’ novel, The Long Walk (1979). In both, main characters must...
