The Conveyance Brian W. Matthews JournalStone June, 2016 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Brian W. Matthews’ The Conveyance is one of those rare books that is extremely difficult to review. Everything about it—setting, characters, plot, language—is perfectly suited to...
Goodnight, My Sweet Vince Churchill Dark Recesses Press 2014 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Vince Churchill’s Goodnight, My Sweet, reads a bit like a great-grandchild of Stephen King’s early ‘Richard Bachman’ novel, The Long Walk (1979). In both, main characters must...
The Blackening of Flesh Christian A. Larsen Post Mortem Press February 16, 2016 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Christian A. Larsen’s previous novel, Losing Touch (2013), told the story of a man increasingly unable to keep in contact with his world, physically and...
nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery & the Macabre Edited by Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing July 1, 2015 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings As a newly transferred junior in college, I worked as a student assistant in a...
The Dream Beings Aaron J. French Samhain Publishing January 2016 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Aaron J. French’s novella, The Dream Beings, is an elegant mashup of classic supernatural horror and classic hard-bitten detective noir. If this description seems...
