Into The Cruel Sea Rich Ristow Skullvines Press 52 Pages, Trade Paperback, $12.95, 2008 Review by Steve Vernon Beth’s life sucks. Her dad is abusive, her mom doesn’t care and her boyfriend went crazy and murdered his parents. Then he drowned himself. Or at...
Demon Eyes L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims Leisure Books Paperback, 338 pages Review by Keith Eure I had never read anything by Maynard and Sims before this book. I will be remedying that in the near future!! Whoever does the reading, buying, etc. of stories for...
Fade To Pale James Cheetham Wild Child Publishing Paperback $15.99 282pp Review by David Simms Writing about mental illness in dark fiction is never a simple task. Too many tread the same tired neuroses, either getting the details right or delving into the...
Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti Mythos Books Hardcover, $35.00 Review by Sheila Merritt A generous serving of Edgar Allan Poe, a dash of Franz Kafka, a smidgen of Robert Aickman: These comprise the components in the cauldron of creativity of Thomas Ligotti. Stir and...
Ugly Stories For Beautiful People James Burr Corsega Press, Paperback $25.50 280pp Review by David Simms This reviewer has read countless collections of fiction, in many genres, many eras. That being said, Ugly Stories has got to be one of the oddest. That could be a...
Johnny Gruesome Gregory Lamberson Bad Moon Books Hardcover $45 Review by Steve Vernon “I fought authority, authority always wins” – John Cougar Mellencamp Johnny Gruesome opens up with a jump into the deep end of the alligator hole as our protagonist...
