Kenneth W Cain, Embers review
Written by Paula Limbaugh A dark collection indeed! Kenneth Cain has put together quite a collection of short stories for your reading pleasure. In Embers, the tales are Read more [...]
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“The Red Room and Other Tales” by Bruno Carlos Santos: The Worst Anthology Ever? (Review)
The Red Room and Other Tales by Brazilian writer Bruno Carlos Santos sells itself as a “short horror story anthology”. This difficult horror sub-genre can either make or Read more [...]
“Feral”: Fearsome, Freaky & Fun (Review)
Feral by James DeMonaco and Brian Evenson is a horror novel released under the helm of the über-successful Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge). Read more [...]
“The Sadist’s Bible” by Nicole Cushing: Hedonistic Antitheism Beats the Best (Review)
How well do you know the people you chat with on a social network? Thirty-seven year old Ellie Blake is about to find out. Her Bible Belt community wouldn’t dare Read more [...]
J.S. Breukelaar, Aletheia: A Supernatural Thriller review
Written by Paula Limbaugh Deep below the island, something monstrous lies waiting for Thettie, and it knows her name. The remote lake town of Little Ridge has a memory Read more [...]
Isobel Blackthorn’s “The Cabin Sessions” Dissapoints: Modernity Means More Magic (Review)
Set at an open mic one stormy Christmas Eve, The Cabin Sessions is a story of menace and dark secrets. While 12 regulars play their sets and the night rolls on, Adam Banks is Read more [...]
“Black Friday” by Michael Hodges: Best Novel of 2017? (Review)
Jared the kleptomaniac, Chike the unemployed IT guy, Patricia the shopaholic, and Jeff the meth dealer are trapped inside a Chicago supermall on Black Friday. Read more [...]
Peter Gallagher’s Metanovel “The Little White Trip: A Night in the Pines” Review
The sun is a bullet wound in the blue sky’s abdomen. Tanned, tangled limbs cover the bleached beaches in skin and sweat. And there, behind the blur of legs and lost ice Read more [...]
Chris Kelso, Unger House Radicals review
Written by Paula Limbaugh “Without humanity art, would not cease to exist but, without a captive audience, it would cease to have meaning or purpose…” This was quite Read more [...]
Todd Keisling, The Final Reconciliation review
"And then I heard the voice. The same voice I’d heard before, back in Camilla’s room. It was calling to me again, carried on a warm gust of air that swept toward me in low, hushed breaths. That voice rose and fell with the tides, hissing with the spray of dark sea foam and brine, a din of ancient secrets and wisdom.
Take off your mask, it said. Take off your mask."
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John W. Dennehy ‘Ice Storm’ Review
John W. Dennehy’s tale of a couple looking to refurbish their farmhouse takes a cold turn, quite quickly. For one man problems begin to surface as he recognizes that his Read more [...]
‘A Mighty Rolling Thunder’ Review
While reading A Mighty Rolling Thunder, I had to remind myself that this was a novel and not an extended tutorial on the excesses of showing rather than telling. Author Kerry Read more [...]
Aaron Dries & Mark Allan Gunnells, Where the Dead Go to Die review
Written by Paula Limbaugh Every once, in a while, you read a book that just floors you. The story so strong that you know emotionally it will be with you for a long time. Read more [...]
Lacey Crowe “Set in the Woods” Review
Written by: Josh Hancock In the horror novella Set in the Woods, the story of a teenager eager to earn some much-needed cash by starring in a no-budget horror film, author Read more [...]
D.J. Doyle, The Celtic Curse: Banshee review
Written by Paula Limbaugh I find myths or folktales an interesting study. Like the urban legend, there is always some obscure basis for how the tale began. You know like a Read more [...]
Micah Castle “The Stone Man and Other Weird Tales” Review
Written by: Josh Hancock In the eerily subdued and smoothly-written title story from Micah Castle’s promising self-published collection The Stone Man and Other Weird Tales, Read more [...]
Kim W. Andersson ‘Alena’ Review
In the opening pages of the book we slither right into an argument between Alena and her kind-of girlfriend Josephine. Josephine’s pissed off because Alena is taking a Read more [...]
Suzy K. Bjerke “Psycho Unique” Review
This smoking shit pile of a novel is the grammatical equivalent to a car wreck. I didn’t read it as much as I did rubberneck it, waiting to see the next horrific syntax Read more [...]
Glenn Rolfe ‘Chasing Ghosts’ Review
Written by Paula Limbaugh Wow… I think Glenn Rolfe’s stories are getting better all the time. I’ve been reading his stories for a long time and I find his storytelling Read more [...]
Paupers’ Graves, James Everington review
Written by Paula Limbaugh You know, it’s said that after the body dies the soul lives on and I think that’s true. I think we all leave a little essence of ourselves Read more [...]
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