Shadows and Tall Trees, Issue 5 Michael Kelly, Editor Undertow Publications June, 2013; $14.00 CAD, Magazine Shadows and Tall Trees is a quarterly journal of literary horror offering subtle, quiet stories bound by a clear editorial philosophy. Editor Michael Kelly...
Gossamer by Lee Thompson Bloodberry Market eBook, 221 pages, $2.97 Review by Darkeva Few writers make it difficult to write objective reviews of their work that aren’t a collection of endless praise. Even fewer can make readers want to hunt for everything else by that...
Eternity by Tamara Thorne Zebra Publishing New Paperback Edition Available Fall of 2013 ISBN-10: 1420132555 ISBN-13: 978-1420132557 Review by Michael Aronovitz It was not necessarily Hannibal Lecter’s vicious ingenuity that riveted us, but rather his sense of “play,”...
The Troop Nick Cutter (pseud.) Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, January 2014 Trade paperback, 359 pp., ARC (pre-publication review) Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Within the first few pages of Nick Cutter’s novel The Troop, one is reminded of several crucial...
The Night Prophets: The Ultimate Edition Paul F. Olson KHP Books, 2013 Ebook Reviewed by Michael R. Collings The 1980s embraced the vampire. Building on Stephen King’s revitalization of the trope in ’Salem’s Lot (1974), writers reimagined the vampire in a...
The Adventures of Kyle McGertt: Hunt for the Ghoulish Bartender By Charles Day Blood Bound Books Paperback version $7.43 Kindle version £2.96 Reviewed by David A. Riley This is the first YA novel I have ever read. It’s also the first horror Western I’ve read too. In...