Snow Ronald Malfi Leisure Fiction Mass Market Paperback, 311 pgs, $7.99 Review by Steve Vernon Having grown up in snowy North Ontario – and having lived through the three foot plus snowfall-in-a-day of White Juan here in Halifax – I have a healthy respect...
The Butcher Bride Vince Churchill Black Bed Sheets Books Trade Paper, 296 pages, $18.95 Review by Sheila Merritt Vince Churchill contributed the excellent story “Late Check-In” to the outstanding anthology Midnight Walk. His novel, The Butcher Bride, is...
Creatures of the Pool Ramsey Campbell Leisure Books Paperback, 336 pages, $7.99 Review by Sheila Merritt Slithering, frog like entities invade Liverpool in Ramsey Campbell’s atmospheric Creatures of the Pool. Are they merely mental aberrations of a skittish,...
Vampire Maker Michael Schiefelbein St. Martin’s Press Hardcover, 240 pages, $24.99 Review by Sheila Merritt Horror is often innately controversial; this is a given. In his novel Vampire Maker, Michael Schiefelbein pushes a lot of buttons. The pious may very well...
Last Days Brian Evenson Underland Press Trade Paper, 256 pages, $12.95 Review by Sheila Merritt Last Days by Brian Evenson recently won the American Library Association award for Best Horror Novel. Is this story about the dismembered members of a cult of amputees...
Seven Deadly Pleasures Michael Aronovitz Hippocampus Press Trade Paper, 250 pages, $15.00 Review by Sheila Merritt Accountability and guilt fuel the stories in Michael Aronovitz’s Seven Deadly Pleasures. The collection is a compendium of culpability; a...
