Lovecraft’s Monsters Edited by Ellen Datlow Tachyon, March 2014 Trade paperback, 380pp., $16.95; eBook, $9.99 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Having learned through pleasurable experience over the years that the phrase “Edited by Ellen Datlow” serves as an almost...
The Reach of Children Tim Lebbon Dreaming in Fire, March 2014 eBook, $2.99 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings The Reach of Children is a precious oddity. It is a ghost story that may or may not have a ghost—perhaps the best kind, since it leaves it up to readers to...
White Knight Bracken MacLeod One Eye Press ISBN 978-0692024065 June 10, 2014; $6.95 PB Reviewed by Josh Black Given the combination of white-knuckle thrills, deep characterization, and existential questioning in Bracken MacLeod’s 2013 debut novel Mountain...
You Shall Never Know Security J. R. Hamantaschen West Pigeon Press, 2011 Trade paperback, 265pp. Reviewed by Michael R. Collings The thirteen stories in You Shall Never Know Security are…strange. A character in one story uses the word surrealistic to describe a...
Vampire “Unseen” Lee Mc George Speartip January, 2014, $4.99 Kindle Reviewed by Sandra Scholes In the first volume, Vampire “Untitled” Paul Mc Govern finds himself in Romania where he befriends a woman there, Ildico, but Nealla’s...
Dämoren Seth Skorkowsky Ragnarok Publications ISBN 978-0991360574 April, 2014; $14.99 PB, $4.97 eBook Reviewed by Josh Black When you hear the words “urban fantasy”, what comes to mind? Chances are it’s nothing like what you’ll find between the covers...