Short Sharp Shocks #2: Stomping Grounds Edited by Neil Baker April Moon Books December 25th, 2014 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon I am a horror movie loving child of the 50s. In the days of nuclear doom and the cold war, the movie scare of the decade was mutant monsters....
Crooked House Joe McKinney Dark Regions Press 2013 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Joe McKinney’s Crooked House has all of the elements necessary for a successful…and deeply eerie…tale of a haunted house. It has a central family, in this case two parents and a child,...
The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows Edited by Marjorie Sandor St. Martin’s Griffin February 2015 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Over the past several years, I have enjoyed the opportunity of reviewing a number of anthologies relating to dark fantasy, to...
Power Tools in the Sacred Grove (Book 2 in the Camp Arcana series) Josef Matulich Post Mortem Press May 19, 2015 Reviewed by David Goudsward As the first book, Camp Arcanum (2014) ends, contractor Marc Sindri has encountered yet another delay in the construction of...
Beyond the Nightlight Various Authors A Murder of Storytellers December 8, 2014 Reviewed by Matthew Scott Baker Although I’m a huge fan of zombies, I have to confess: monsters in general are my true love when it comes to fiction and films. Monsters represent all that...
Doll Face Tim Curran DarkFuse March 3rd, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Doll Face is a fast, brutal hallucination of a horror novel. Tim Curran creates some visceral horror with this tale of a town possessed by an indescribable evil that can only be overcome by facing it...