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 [...]
Written by: James Keen ‘There is no final conclusion to anything.” – ‘Twilight Eyes’. Published in 1987, ‘Twilight Eyes’ is an expansion Read more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Written by: James Keen “Fear almost always conquers logic.” – ‘The Final Processing’. John Ajvide Lindqvist emerged as a formidable voice in horror Read more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]