Reviewer Ray Palen’s Q & A with Mike Thorn, author of Shelter for the Damned What authors influenced you growing up? Who are you reading now? As a young kid, I was really excited by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and R. L. Stine. Discovering Stephen King as...
Shelter for the Damned Mike Thorn JournalStone (February 26, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen Mike Thorn clearly knows his horror. For his Master’s thesis in English Literature, he analyzed the role of epistemophobia in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness. Clever readers...
THE DEAD HOURS OF NIGHT Lisa Tuttle Valancourt Books (February 2, 2021) Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Texas-born Lisa Tuttle (located in Scotland since 1990) is an award-winning author of SF, horror, and fantasy. For her faithful followers, here’s the bad news: the...
Stranger Danger Michaelbrent Collings Written Insomnia Press, 2020 Reviewed by Andrew Byers Stranger Still is a stand-alone sequel to Michaelbrent Collings’ horror thriller Strangers, which I reviewed way back in 2013, and Stranger Still, which I reviewed earlier this...
WYRD AND OTHER DERELICTIONS Adam L.G. Nevill Ritual Limited (October 26, 2020) Reviewed by Ray Palen U.K. author Adam L.G. Nevill is one of the best writers of horror fiction working today, and it still amazes me that his is not a household name. His most famous work...
CURSED OBJECTS J.W. Ocker Quirk (September 15, 2020) Reviewed by Ray Palen This non-fiction collection by J.W. Ocker is a cumulative collection of ancient and infamous objects from around the world and throughout the annals of occult history that still scare us. With...
