A Curious Cartography Alison Littlewood Black Shuck Books, 2023 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi A successful novelist and short story writer (winner of a Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction), Alison Littlewood is an eclectic author in the general area of speculative...
ELEMENT OF DOUBT: Ghost Stories A.L. Barker Valancourt Books, 2023 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Audrey Lilian Barker ( 1918-2002) was a prolific author of novels and short story collections, now largely forgotten. The present volume reprints her collection Element of...
THE CANAL and Other Weird Stories Everil Worrell Weird House Press, 2023 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Worrell’s stories are seldom ordinary, although sometimes overlong, and pay homage to some of the genre clichés without becoming stereotypes. Among the tales included...
THE HORROR COLLECTION: Sapphire Edition Natasha Sinclair, editor KJK Publishing, 2022 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Here’s the latest volume of The Horror Collection, featuring nineteen short stories exploring further the various aspects of the horror genre. At least in...
Looming Low volume II Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan Dim Shores, 2022 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Here’s yet another example of how most horror anthologies appear to be today. An excessive number of stories ( the e-format makes it easier to squeeze into the book...
