Prosper’s Demon K.J. Parker TOR Books January 28, 2020 Reviewed by Ray Palen The novella PROSPER’S DEMON, by author K.J. Parker, will cause more than a few sleepless nights. The protagonist is an exorcist, whose name is never made known to us. His tactics...
Sarah Read Out of Water Trepidatio Publishing (November 1, 2019) Reviewed by Gordon B. White Sarah Read is an author who fans of quality dark fiction likely already know. She’s been writing and editing superb short dark fiction for a while now, although 2019 alone...
You who read me, do you know what it is you read? On a mission to recover an ancient artifact, an amnesiac girl unlocks the terrible secret of humanity’s past and future. The implementation of a radical new technology sends an unlucky test pilot into a dimension of...
This is an invitation to drowning. These are the stories of things out of water—of sea bed deserts choked with ghosts; of the lonely, roving children of the fen. Here your garden grows belowground. You will be born into a cradle of your own bones, shadows will burst...
Daniel Braum’s debut novel The Serpent’s Shadow (Cemetery Dance, 2019) is the story of a family vacation to Cancun during Christmas 1986, which just happens to intersect with an eruption of psychedleic cosmic horror and millenarianistic Serpent/Death cult activity. ...
