Red Paul Kane Skullvines Press Trade Paper, 70 pages, $16.95 Review by Sheila Merritt The adage that “revenge is a dish best served cold” does not apply in Paul Kane’s Red. In this novella, revenge is best savored warm; warm as the blood of a...
Shadowed Summer Saundra Mitchell Delacorte Press Hardcover, 183 pages, $15.99 Review by Sheila Merritt Adolescent angst leads to supernatural suspense set in the sultry South in Shadowed Summer. In this poignant and evocative tale, two girls in their early teens are...
Patient Zero Jonathan Maberry St. Martin’s Griffin Trade Paper, 421 pages, $14.95 Review by Sheila Merritt The recent plethora of novels that combine and fuse horror with other genres is astounding. Most of these books fail. They come across as neither fish nor...
Skarlet Thomas Emson Snowbooks Trade Paper, 425 pages, $14.95 Review by Sheila Merritt It’s a druggy day in London town. Parts of the population of that city have taken a recreational drug called “Skarlet.” It turns them into vampires, who then turn...
Putting The Pieces In Place R.B. Russell Ex Occidente Press, 2009 Hardcover,128 pages, $35.00 Review by Mario Guslandi After so many years of editing and publishing with his small imprint Tartarus Press, it was perhaps inevitable that sooner or later Ray Russell...
The San Francisco Chronicle has posted a review of Poe, 18 New Stories Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by veteran editor Ellen Datlow, with contributions by Pat Cadigan, Gregory Frost, Suzy McKee Charnas, Kim Newman, and others. They call Poe “a solidly...
