The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women Edited by S.T. Joshi Dover Publications May 18, 2016 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale The Cold Embrace features tales of dark fiction written by women over nearly a one hundred year time span. The collection is bookended by Mary...
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...
Thirty Hours With a Corpse and Other Tales of the Grand Guignol Maurice Level (Edited by S.T. Joshi) Dover Publications March 29, 2016 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Maurice Level (1875-1926) was a French writer — now largely forgotten — whose work was associated with the...
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (hardcover) Mary Shelley Illustrated by Nino Carbé Calla Editions, an imprint of Dover Publications April, 2016 Reviewed by Jess Landry If you’re a fan of horror literature, then you most likely know about Mary Shelley’s...
Pretty Little Dead Girls Mercedes M. Yardley Crystal Lake Publishing March 4, 2016 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale From the very first line of author Mercedes M. Yardley’s fairy tale-esque novel, “Bryony Adams was the type of girl who got murdered,” readers are...
Scar City Joel Lane Eibonvale Press October, 2015 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi A posthumous short story collection by the late Joel Lane (whose untimely death has deprived the literary scene of one of the best contemporary writers of dark, speculative and weird...
