Hard Boiled Vampire Killers Jim Gavin Dark Regions Press Trade Paper, 218 pages, $18.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt A horror bromance is embraced in Hard Boiled Vampire Killers. In a variant of the lyrics to “Moon River,” here are “Two Drifters Off...
Jenny Pox J.L. Bryan CreateSpace, 292 Pages, e-book Reviewed by Darkeva Description: Jenny is a shy, small-town South Carolina girl whose touch spreads a deadly supernatural plague. She can’t touch anyone for long without killing them. Her life is painfully lonely...
Knuckle Supper Drew Stepek Alphar Publishing Hardcover, 354 pages, $30.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Drew Stepek’s novel Knuckle Supper combines gritty social commentary with over the top violence. Although imbued with some heartfelt emotion, the...
Ruthless: An Extreme Shock Horror Collection Shane McKenzie, editor Pill Hill Press Trade Paper, 240 pages, $16.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt The unabashed ugly side of human nature is unflinchingly explored in Ruthless: An Extreme Shock Horror Collection. Sadism,...
Midnight Echo Issue 4 Lee Battersby, Editor Australian Horror Writers Association Magazine, 100 pages, $13.00 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Does Australian horror fiction uniquely differ from its American or European counterparts? In the fourth issue of Midnight Echo,...
Blood Orchard S.D. Hintz Black Bed Sheet Books Trade Paper, 296 pages, $16.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt “There were kid zombies sprouting out of his yard like dandelions. Triplets at that.” Reading such a passage is an alert: This is amped-up horror....
