The Friendly Horror and Other Weird Tales Jessica Burke and Anthony Burdge Myth Ink Books, 2013 Trade paperback, 146 pp., $12.00; eBook, $2.99 By Michael R. Collings This small collection of eight Lovecraft-inspired tales is an idiosyncratically appealing homage to...
Pulp Fiction: The Complete Story of Quentin Tarantino’s Masterpiece by Jason Bailey Voyageur Press Reviewed by Matthew Scott Baker Movie geeks like me were thrilled beyond words when Tarantino first arrived on the movie scene back in 1992. With RESERVOIR DOGS,...
North American Lake Monsters Nathan Ballingrud Small Beer Press ISBN: 978-1618730602 July, 2013; $16.00 PB Reviewed by K. H. Vaughan The titular lake monsters of North America do not exist in any objective sense. They are vehicles for our fears and objects on which to...
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction Written by Jeff VanderMeer and illustrated by Jeremy Zerfoss Harry N. Abrams ISBN: 978-1419704420 October, 2013; $24.95 PB reviewed by K. H. Vaughan This is not a book about horror, but so many of our...
Dark Vision Volume 1: A Collection of Modern Horror Edited by Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson Grey Matter Press ISBN 978-1940658001 September, 2013; $14.99 PB Reviewed by Sandra Scholes There is a need for horror more than ever before as it is pure escapism in a...
Readheads Jonathan Moore Samhain, 2013 Trade paperback, 308 pp., $16.00 by Michael R. Collings Redheads is a bit of a quirky novel, fascinating and engaging but not quite—for me, at least—complete. The plot is direct enough: someone is killing…make that slaughtering...
