Flesh Eaters. McKinney, Joe. Pinnacle/Kensington, 2011 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Joe McKinney’s Bram Stoker Award® winning Flesh Eaters adroitly manages to perform a number of seemingly mutually exclusive balancing acts. It is, from the first, a ‘natural...
A Requiem for Dead Flies. Peter N. Dudar Nightscape Press, June 2012. Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Growing up, I spent portions of every summer—and one summer entirely—at my grandparents’ farm in southern Idaho. They lived in a two-story house built by my...
Hauntings Edited by Ellen Datlow Tachyon, 2013 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings It is always fun to receive one of Ellen Datlow’s anthologies to review. From past experience, I know that I can anticipate a range of tales within the given theme and that I will...
Trilogy: A Collection Prudence MacGregor Outskirts Press/The Cadence Group, 2013 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Prudence MacGregor’s Trilogy: A Collection is a short (108pp.) compilation of three tales loosely linked by theme and treatment. “Parallelograms,”...
Roseanne Montillo The Lady and Her Monsters William Morrow, February 2013 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings A few weeks ago, I published Milton’s Century: A Timeline of the Literary, Political, Religious, and Social Context of John Milton’s Life. Its...
