Joseph D’Lacey ‘Black Feathers’ Review
Written by: James Keen “Something’s coming. Something bad.” – ‘Black Feathers’. There’s a continuing fascination with themes that are Read more [...]
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Michael Connelly ‘The Safe Man’ Review
Written by: James Keen “It always helps to know what you’re getting into.”- ‘The Safe Man’. One of the shining lights in modern crime-fiction has turned Read more [...]
Dean Koontz ‘Twilight Eyes’ Review
Written by: James Keen ‘There is no final conclusion to anything.” – ‘Twilight Eyes’. Published in 1987, ‘Twilight Eyes’ is an expansion Read more [...]
[Interview] Todd Keisling – Mythology, Mysteries and the Terrors That Can be Found in Mediocrity
Written and conducted by: James Keen Authors who indulge in crafting a mythos not based around the more obvious antagonists in horror fiction – you know them all; vampires, Read more [...]
Steve Rasnic Tem ‘Ugly Behavior’ Review
Written by: James Keen “I believe wonderful things can come out of the most terrible events.” – Steve Rasnic Tem. Steve Rasnic Tem is an author who’s been Read more [...]
Chris Bohjalian ‘The Night Strangers’ Review
Written by: James Keen “You seem to have your head in the clouds tonight…” – ‘The Night Strangers.’ In an interview Chris Bohjalian gave to Read more [...]
Patrick McGrath ‘Blood and Water and Other Tales’ Review
Written by: James Keen “Who took one of Mommy’s fingers during the night?”- ‘The Boot’s Tale’. Patrick McGrath. This was Patrick McGrath’s Read more [...]
Matt Hults ‘Husk’ Review
Written by: James Keen “I’d say you’re stretching it a bit.” – Matt Hults. ‘Husk’. There’s a foreword to Matt Hults’ Read more [...]
Richard Kadrey ‘Kill The Dead’
Written by: James Keen “Tonight is the end of someone’s world. If it’s mine, it’s going to be messy.” – ‘Kill the Dead’. This is Read more [...]
Bentley Little ‘The Haunted’ Review
Written by: James Keen Bentley Little’s Bram Stoker Award nominated novel, ‘The Haunted’ is the story of the Perry family who up sticks and move to a house Read more [...]
John Connolly ‘The Black Angel’ Review
Written by: James Keen “At Sedlec, the border between this world and the next was marked in bone.” – ‘The Black Angel’. The fifth in the series of Read more [...]
John Ajvide Lindqvist ‘Let The Old Dreams Die’ Review
Written by: James Keen “Fear almost always conquers logic.” – ‘The Final Processing’. John Ajvide Lindqvist emerged as a formidable voice in horror Read more [...]
[Staff Picks] James’ Ten Favorite Horror Novels
Some readers may feel I’ve taken certain liberties with the inclusion of some texts on this list, but to paraphrase Joe Lansdale in his foreword to his collection of Read more [...]
Dan Simmons ‘A Winter Haunting’ Review
Written by: James Keen “I have to go back. Something’s waiting for me there.” Back in 1991 Dan Simmons published ‘Summer of Night’, a terrifying novel Read more [...]
Griffin Hayes ‘Malice’ Review
Written by: James Keen “It was worse than any nightmare he had ever known.” – ‘Malice’. Family relocation to a new town, to a strange environment is a Read more [...]
This Week on HNR (Plus Our Official Logo Reveal!)
Living up to my word, I’m out to provide advance weekly notice of what’s to come to our lovely site here. And, as it just so happens, we’ve got some stellar works being Read more [...]
Nathan L. Yocum ‘The Zona’ Review
Written by: James Keen “We’re just winding down the clock until the Earth finishes us all off with weather and viruses or we finish ourselves with our own Read more [...]
Thomas Ligotti ‘Teatro Grottesco’ Review
Written by: James Keen “He showed them the way into the nightmare, but he could not show them the way out…” – ‘Teatro Grottesco’. Surely any Read more [...]
Robert Jackson Bennett ‘American Elsewhere’ Review
Written by: James Keen “You can only stay terrified and confused for so long. After a while, it unfolds and flowers into despair.” – ‘American Read more [...]
Norman Partridge ‘Dark Harvest’ Review
Written by: James Keen “Pete often catches himself daydreaming about the licorice whip road that leads out of town…” -‘Dark Harvest’. Bram Stoker Award Read more [...]
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