Gris-Gris Gumbo Rick Koster JournalStone Publishing (June 23, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Rick Koster offers us a treat: what happens when Crayton Breaux, a clerk at a tourist trap voodoo shop in New Orleans’ French Quarter, starts dabbling in voodoo and discovers...
Verushka Jan Stinchcomb JournalStone (July 7, 2023) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy Jan Stinchcomb lives in the world of fairytales. Her stories are steeped in the old-world fairytales with a modern retelling. Her latest novel, Verushka, is about a family cursed for three...
The Trick Douglas Ford Madness Heart Press (May 14, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale The Trick is an exciting read, and I devoured it with a surprising quickness. Ford writes of the surreal, yet a reader is eased into every plot point so that the logic of the story is...
ELEMENT OF DOUBT: Ghost Stories A.L. Barker Valancourt Books, 2023 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Audrey Lilian Barker ( 1918-2002) was a prolific author of novels and short story collections, now largely forgotten. The present volume reprints her collection Element of...
Thirteen Plus-1 Lovecraftian Narratives Nancy Kilpatrick NKPublishing (May 14, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale In Thirteen Plus-1, Nancy Kilpatrick has pulled together stories from prior publications that hearken to the style of Lovecraft. While the stories were...
Everything the Darkness Eats Eric LaRocca CLASH Books (June 6, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Eric LaRocca is one of the big names in contemporary horror fiction, a kind of wunderkind whose work has regularly gone viral. I’ve had the chance to read his short fiction...
