OUT OF WATER – Book Review
Sarah Read Out of Water Trepidatio Publishing (November 1, 2019) Reviewed by Gordon B. White Sarah Read is an author who fans of quality dark fiction likely already know. She’s been writing and editing superb short dark fiction for a while now, although 2019 alone...
GHOST APP – Film Review
GHOST APP Jusino Productions, 2016 Reviewed by Rick Hipson We dive straight into the creepy action as our star character, Sher Shearey, has a snack and movie session interrupted by a random text asking if she believes in ghosts. When Sher confides that yes, she does...
Movie Review – DRAUG
DRAUG Directed/Produced by Karin Engman and Klas Persson Written by Klas Persson Odmarden Film Production, October 2018 Reviewed by Rick Hipson Flexing its production value and utilizing some gorgeous settings from Sweden’s forested wilderness, DRAUG transcends past...
The Sleep Experiment – Book Review
The Sleep Experiment Jeremy Bates Ghillinnein Books August 27, 2019 Reviewed by Ray Palen At the start of the Cold War, there was purportedly a controversial sleep experiment that took place within the Soviet Union. Some call it an urban legend; others have chosen to...
Movie Review – GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD
GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD Written/Directed by Charlie Comparetto Cellar Door Films, 2019 Reviewed by Rick Hipson The film opens with a group of kids running through a dark graveyard playing a childhood game, until unexpected tragedy strikes one of them dead. With the...
Machinations and Mesmerism – Book Review
Machinations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman Farah Rose Smith (Editor) Ulthar Press July 15, 2019 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Some of you may believe you are unfamiliar with the works of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman, but his stories are a part of our...
SCAVENGER HUNT – Book Review
Scavenger Hunt Michaelbrent Collings Written Insomnia Press, October 2019 Reviewed by Andrew Byers Michaelbrent Collings has written a number of books in which a group of strangers who don’t know each are thrust into terrible circumstances by outside forces and then...
ANGUISH OF THE SAPIENS QUEEN – Book Review
Anguish of the Sapiens Queen (Thrones of Blood Book 5) Nancy Kilpatrick (author) Crossroad Press December 2019 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale The books in the Thrones of Blood series typically start with introducing new characters. In Anguish of the Sapiens Queen, we...
Vampyre Theatre – Book Review
Vampyre Theatre Nancy Kilpatrick (author) Baskerville Books (print)/Amazon Digital Services December 15, 2019 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale I believe it is safe to say that Nancy Kilpatrick is a vampire fan. Since I share a love of the mythical creatures, I am always...
Watch the Trailer for Jonathan Maberry’s V-WARS
From Netflix: "A fast-spreading disease that turns victims into blood-sucking fiends pits two best friends against each other in a fight for humanity's future." Coming December 5th: an adaptation of the comics by Jonathan Maberry and Alan Robinson, starring Ian...
Movie Review – SLAUGHTERHOUSE SLUMBER PARTY
Slaughterhouse Slumber Party Dustin Mills Productions, 2019 Reviewed by Rick Hipson The raunchy fun starts with a scantily-clad woman puking in the crapper before psyching herself up to get back to the party. Hey, isn’t that how slumber parties are supposed to end,...
New Release: Justin Joschko’s WHITETOOTH FALLS
Homicide detective David Moore has never had a case quite like this: a series of savage murders targeting the family of Frank Ballaro, a mafia kingpin with half the city of Niagara Falls in his pocket. The killer strikes with inhuman violence, and always on the night...
New Release: Scott R. Jones’ SHOUT KILL REVEL REPEAT
You who read me, do you know what it is you read? On a mission to recover an ancient artifact, an amnesiac girl unlocks the terrible secret of humanity’s past and future. The implementation of a radical new technology sends an unlucky test pilot into a dimension of...
Black Cat Scribbles, Vol 1 – Book Review
Black Cat Scribbles Vol 1 MG Spear (author) August 4, 2019 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Black Cat Scribbles Vol 1 was not what I had expected when I was made aware of the photo/story theme. I expected an anthology with several authors, as opposed to a single-author...
New Release: Sarah Read’s OUT OF WATER
This is an invitation to drowning. These are the stories of things out of water—of sea bed deserts choked with ghosts; of the lonely, roving children of the fen. Here your garden grows belowground. You will be born into a cradle of your own bones, shadows will burst...
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