Shadowed Summer Saundra Mitchell Delacorte Press Hardcover, 183 pages, $15.99 Review by Sheila Merritt Adolescent angst leads to supernatural suspense set in the sultry South in Shadowed Summer. In this poignant and evocative tale, two girls in their early teens are...
Patient Zero Jonathan Maberry St. Martin’s Griffin Trade Paper, 421 pages, $14.95 Review by Sheila Merritt The recent plethora of novels that combine and fuse horror with other genres is astounding. Most of these books fail. They come across as neither fish nor...
Skarlet Thomas Emson Snowbooks Trade Paper, 425 pages, $14.95 Review by Sheila Merritt It’s a druggy day in London town. Parts of the population of that city have taken a recreational drug called “Skarlet.” It turns them into vampires, who then turn...
Putting The Pieces In Place R.B. Russell Ex Occidente Press, 2009 Hardcover,128 pages, $35.00 Review by Mario Guslandi After so many years of editing and publishing with his small imprint Tartarus Press, it was perhaps inevitable that sooner or later Ray Russell...
The San Francisco Chronicle has posted a review of Poe, 18 New Stories Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by veteran editor Ellen Datlow, with contributions by Pat Cadigan, Gregory Frost, Suzy McKee Charnas, Kim Newman, and others. They call Poe “a solidly...
Gunpowder Joe Hill PS Publishing Novella, 80 pages $25 (approx) Review by Kent Knopp-Schwyn Of course Joe Hill has done it yet again. Having proved his mastery of the horror fiction short story, the horror/suspense novel and comic books, Mr. Hill handed Peter Crowther...
