Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine, Volume 2 Jeani Rector, Editor BearManor Media Trade Paper, 374 pages, $17.95 Review by Sheila Merritt “Fear of the dark is only a fear. It isn’t anything real. But what about things that really do hide in the dark? What...
Black Country Joel Lane When the Door Closed Alison Moore Nightjar Press Chapbooks Review by Lisa Morton Nightjar Press is a new British publisher dedicated to producing quality chapbooks of dark short fiction, and if their two recent releases from Joel Lane and...
The Best Of Joe R. Lansdale Joe R. Lansdale Tachyon Publications $15.95 Review by Brian M. Sammons I am a huge fan of the weird, wild, and wonderful stories of Joe R. Lansdale so when it comes to a book called The Best Of Joe R. Lansdale, I can make this one of the...
The Night Cache Andy Duncan PS Publishing Hardcover, £7.50 [$12.00] Review by Lisa Morton Andy Duncan’s The Night Cache begins with a reference to Val Lewton, and that’s no coincidence, because much of this intriguing novelette reveals as little as a...
Darkness: Two Decades Of Modern Horror Edited by Ellen Datlow Tachyon Publications, 2010 480 pages, $15.95 Review by Brian M. Sammons Wow, what can I say about this book that won’t instantly make me sound like a drooling fanboy? That it has been comprised by...
Friday Night In Beast House Richard Laymon Leisure Books ISBN: 978-0-8439-6142-3 March 2010; $7.99 Review by Brian M. Sammons I have long been a fan of Mr. Laymon’s workmanlike style of telling very nasty, bloody horror stories. He doesn’t muss about,...