House of Pungsu K.P. Kulski Bizarro Pulp Press (September 30, 2022) Review by Elaine Pascale House of Pungsu is a difficult property to summarize. It is like trying to describe a delicious smell or a captivating painting. The plot feels like a specter that one catches...
Trouble the Water Wendy Vogel JournalStone (August 9, 2022) Review by Elaine Pascale Trouble the Water is being marketed as Contemporary Southern Gothic. While it contains a ghost, the real fear in the story is attributable to the repression and hate associated with...
Where Night Cowers Matthew M. Bartlett JournalStone Publishing (September 30, 2022) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Matthew Bartlett has received a good deal of attention as a contemporary weird fiction writer, though I was new to his work before reading Where Night Cowers....
When I Was Lost Jordan Kurella Trepidatio Publishing (October 21, 2022) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Jordan Kurella is an author who’s new to me, but I’m very impressed with his breadth of themes and settings—stories in When I Was Lost are set across time and space in a...
The Fever Cabinet Justin Joschko JournalStone (September 23, 2022) Reviewed by Andrew Byers I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found historical treatments of mental illness to be especially horrifying. (Heck, contemporary treatment of mental illness remains...
Consume Kourtnea Hogan Bizarro Pulp Press (July 29, 2022) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Consume is the story of thirteen-year-old Tegan, a girl with highly identifiable social and body image issues. Tegan is dealing with the trauma of her mother’s recent death due to...
