TALES FROM THE HINTERLAND Melissa Albert Flatiron Books (January 12, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen What author Melissa Albert has accomplished with her delightful collection of stories entitled TALES FROM THE HINTERLAND is something that I hope is one of the most talked...
Reviewer Ray Palen’s Q & A with Mike Thorn, author of Shelter for the Damned What authors influenced you growing up? Who are you reading now? As a young kid, I was really excited by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and R. L. Stine. Discovering Stephen King as...
Shelter for the Damned Mike Thorn JournalStone (February 26, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen Mike Thorn clearly knows his horror. For his Master’s thesis in English Literature, he analyzed the role of epistemophobia in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness. Clever readers...
THE DEAD HOURS OF NIGHT Lisa Tuttle Valancourt Books (February 2, 2021) Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Texas-born Lisa Tuttle (located in Scotland since 1990) is an award-winning author of SF, horror, and fantasy. For her faithful followers, here’s the bad news: the...
Stranger Danger Michaelbrent Collings Written Insomnia Press, 2020 Reviewed by Andrew Byers Stranger Still is a stand-alone sequel to Michaelbrent Collings’ horror thriller Strangers, which I reviewed way back in 2013, and Stranger Still, which I reviewed earlier this...
Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire Nicole Givens Kurtz, ed. Mocha Memoirs Press (October 13, 2020) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire is a unique collection of international vampire stories with a focus on Black characters as either the main...
