At Louche Ends Maria Alexander Burning Effigy Press Chapbook, 56 pages, $8.00 Review by Sheila M. Merritt At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned and the Absinthe-Minded is divinely dissolute. The poems of Maria Alexander are liberated and libertine;...
Gift of the Bouda Richard Farnsworth Salvo Press Trade Paper, 256 pages, $16.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Hyenas are no laughing matter in Richard Farnsworth’s Gift of the Bouda. In this nifty tweaking of werewolf folklore, the were-hyena is top dog. Its bite...
Rotters Daniel Kraus Delacorte Books for Young Readers Hardcover, 464 pages, $16.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt It’s hard to imagine a weirder book than Rotters, the heart-warming tale of a father and son who bond through grave robbing. Marketed as a young adult...
Southern Gods John Hornor Jacobs Night Shade Books Trade Paper, 300 pages, $14.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt An often quoted line from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is: “If music be the food of love, play on.” The novel Southern Gods takes an opposing...
The Concrete Grove Gary McMahon Solaris Books, 2011 Review by Matthew Tait Exactly why Gary McMahon’s profile has managed to avoid my radar until now remains a small mystery, but I imagine the reason is overly simple: his persistent talent has now come more...
A Serpent Uncoiled Simon Spurrier Headline Hardcover, 416 pages, £12.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Simon Spurrier unfurls serpentine suspense in A Serpent Uncoiled. A whiff of the supernatural snakes its way into this novel, which is primarily a detective yarn. The...
