Randalls Round Eleanor Scott Oleander Press Trade Paper, 175 pages, £8.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt “And then quite silently the curtain at the window waved in some mysterious breath of night air – lifted for a second, and fell as silently.”...
Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story Jamie Wasserman Penumbra Publishing Paperback, 264 pages, $11.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt It is easy to be struck by the title Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story. There is no allure of Bram Stoker’s...
Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories Edited by Joyce Carol Oates Library of America Hardcover, 832 pages, $35.00 Review by Sheila M. Merritt “Hysterically polite,” is a phrase employed by Shirley Jackson in the novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It...
Hard Boiled Vampire Killers Jim Gavin Dark Regions Press Trade Paper, 218 pages, $18.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt A horror bromance is embraced in Hard Boiled Vampire Killers. In a variant of the lyrics to “Moon River,” here are “Two Drifters Off...
Knuckle Supper Drew Stepek Alphar Publishing Hardcover, 354 pages, $30.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Drew Stepek’s novel Knuckle Supper combines gritty social commentary with over the top violence. Although imbued with some heartfelt emotion, the...
