Secret Hours
Michael Cisco
Mythos Books
$15.00, 134 Pages
Review by Kent Knopp-Schwyn
Literary Horror! If those two words invoke a desire to crack open any titles by such luminaries as Thomas Ligotti or Ramsay Campbell or Jeff Vandermeer, then run out and buy this volume by Michael Cisco immediately. As with many Mythos Books productions, the page count belies […]

All The Lonely People
David B. Silva
Delirium Books
Trade Paperback, 204 Pages, $16.95 (review based on advance uncorrected proof)
Review by Sheila Merritt
“So, a man walks into a bar…”
Think you know all the riffs and permutations on that one? You better think again. In All The Lonely People, David B. Silva takes the […]

The Outlaw Demon Wails
Kim Harrison
Eos Publishing (HarperCollins Publishers)
Hardcover, 455 Pages, $24.95
Review By Keith Eure
Ok, I’ll get this out of the way first - I like this series. It’s kind of a guilty pleasure. Like saying you did (or still) listen to ABBA. Or disco. Which I do, on occasion. Not […]

Coffin County
Gary A. Braunbeck
Leisure Fiction
Paperback, $7.99 (review based on advance reading copy)
Review by Sheila Merritt
“As the sun perched on the horizon like a vulture examining a field of fresh carrion,” is a striking simile. It is also an example of multi-Bram Stoker (and other) awards recipient Gary A. Braunbeck’s eerie ease with words. […]

Meat
Joseph D’Lacey
Bloody Books
Trade Paper, £7.99 ($15.58 on Amazon.com)
Review by Sheila Merritt
In an alternate (or future) world called Abyrne, clergy and commerce combine to create a society of culturally controlled cannibalism. A group labeled “The Chosen” is literally “cowed” into submission as food for those who can afford to buy meat. Joseph D’Lacey’s cautionary […]