Occasional Beasts: Tales John Claude Smith Omnium Gatherum September, 2018 Reviewed by Gordon B. White John Claude Smith’s new collection Occasional Beasts: Tales fearlessly explores themes of transformation and transcendence through a menagerie of monsters that are...
NARAKA Alessandro Manzetti Independent Legions Publishing May 15, 2018 Reviewed by Brian James Lewis Are you the kind of horror fan who wants things taken to the extreme? Skin peeled slowly and painfully from a live human body and eaten for the purpose of pleasure? Do...
Distortion Lee Thomas Lethe Press May 15, 2018 Reviewed by Brian James Lewis Looking for a suspense-filled horror novel that’ll grab your attention and not let go? Then Distortion by Lee Thomas is just what the doctor ordered! Thomas is a two-time Lambda Literary...
A Sharp Stick in the Eye (And Other Funny Stories) Rob Smales, Editor Books and Boos Press August 14, 2018 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale I had been looking forward to this release for some time. As a fan of Smales’ writing, I was excited to see what he would produce as...
Walking with Ghosts Brian James Freeman 2018 PS Publishing Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Brian James Freeman is a well respected author of short stories in the field of dark fiction. His specialty is what we used to call “quiet horror”(the master of which was...
Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road Edited by D. Alexander Ward Crystal Lake Publishing July 20th, 2018 Reviewed by C.M. Saunders Hitting the road in any context is one of those things that fills us a complex range of varied, and often conflicting emotions....
