A Darke Phantastique: Encounters with the Uncanny and Other Magical Things Jason V. Brock, ed. Cycatrix Press, 2014 Trade paperback, 728 pages Reviewed by Michael R. Collings At 728 pages, it would seem that Jason Brock’s anthology, A Darke Phantastique, has the...
The End in All Beginnings John F.D. Taff Grey Matter Press, 2014 Trade paperback, 320 pp. Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Just under half a century ago, I discovered a personal “tell” that let me know when a performance had touched me deeply. Several friends, all of...
Nightmare Carnival Ellen Datlow, ed. Dark Horse Press, September 2014 Trade paperback, 383 pp., $19.99 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings The title Nightmare Carnival is both precise and descriptive. The fifteen tales collected in the anthology are nightmares—of the...
Biters By: Harry Shannon JournalStone Doubledown #4 April 2014 Reviewed by: Michael Collings Biters substantiates the axiom that the best zombie books are not about zombies at all—and this one is an excellent zombie tale. The eponymous creatures are not quite zombies....
The Reborn Brett Talley JournalStone DoubleDown Series, Book IV April 2014 Tradepaperback, $15.95 Review by Michael R. Collings For almost as many reasons as there are individuals, abortion is one of the most controversial issues today. Imagine a world, however, in...
