‘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 [...]
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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 [...]
Horror and Hangovers: Writing Through Depression
Writers are predisposed to depression. Perhaps all artists are, but writers likely suffer it worse. The reasons are many. It’s tough to make a living off writing, unless Read more [...]
William Kennedy ‘Ironweed’ Review
What constitutes a horror novel? Obviously it isn’t a strict adherence to blood, guts, jump scares, and Clive Barker nipple ring monsters. Poe is perhaps the most Read more [...]
Mike Driver ‘Fall, Leaves, Fall’ Review
Written by: Mack Moyer I don’t care about dead children. Wait, that sounds bad. What I meant to say is that I don’t care about fictional dead children for whom, Read more [...]
Looking for Racism in ‘I Am Legend’
Now for a topic that’s neither divisive nor prone to eliciting irrational anger and awkward discomfort: Racism in our favorite novels! Namely, Richard Matheson’s classic, Read more [...]
Greg Donchatz ‘Wolves of the Land’ Review
Greg Donchatz’s Wolves of the Land made me think, “Oh, right on, this is going to be like a Leon Uris novel with monsters.” Nazis versus werewolves versus a superhuman Read more [...]
William Lindsay Gresham ‘Nightmare Alley’ Review
In the world of Nightmare Alley, everyone is their own worst enemy. The con men, cheats, and liars prey on the unwary, yes, but these grifters have the same weakness as their Read more [...]
Andrew Garvey and Mike Staples, ‘Little Penny Dreadfuls’ Review
This short story collection – 99 short stories, all 99 words long – is a book for smoke breaks, short bus rides, and trips to the bathroom. (Full disclosure: I read Read more [...]
S.K. Epperson ‘Green Lake’ Review
I’m cognizant of the fact that I haven’t reviewed a novel positively in quite some time. Truly, I’m not a negative person, though if you’ve read my posts on HNR you Read more [...]
Horror and Hangovers: The Existential Dread of Homer Simpson
“I’m somewhere where I don’t know where I am.” I was nine years old when I first heard Homer Simpson cry out those words in the “Homer³” segment of Treehouse of Read more [...]
Mark Edwards, ‘Follow You Home’ Review
What starts with a genuinely chilling venture into the woods through some bumblefuckian stretch of Romania quickly devolves into a schizophrenic mess of a plot. It starts Read more [...]
Randolph Lalonde, ‘Dark Arts’ Review
Dark Arts is an example of how not to do exposition. This thing reads like a fucking plot synopsis. We’re introduced to Max who – bear with me here – is not only the Read more [...]
Horror and Hangovers: Do You Work at Innsmouth?
Lovecraft gave us all many a horror in “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” From froggy fish people to urban decay and alienation, the subtle horrors of racial crossbreeding Read more [...]
Navi’ Robins ‘The Curfew’ Review
Written by: Mack Moyer The following line of dialogue appears in this novelette: “He got a little titty action too and (he) didn’t even need any Mardi Gras beads Read more [...]
Brendan Ball ‘Savages: A Triptych’ Review
Written by: Mack Moyer On the surface, the tales in Savages don’t seem to have much in common. “Long Live The King” is a sad story of an aging African chief ruling over Read more [...]
Horror and Hangovers: Why Your Series Sucks
Written by: Mack Moyer It seems like every novel you read these days is part of a series. That can be great, if done well. Then other times…blart. (That’s the sound of me Read more [...]
Horror and Hangovers: I Envy Homeless Musicians
Written by: Mack Moyer I’m thirty-one years old. When I decided to dedicate my life to writing, I imagined that by my early-thirties I’d be living in a van, selling short Read more [...]
Horror and Hangovers: Writing Until It Kills You
Written by: Mack Moyer The majority of writers who dedicate their lives to the craft come to a point where they write not because it’s their dream to ‘make it’ as an Read more [...]
B.K. Raine ‘Blood Toy’ Review
Written by: Mack Moyer After reading some preliminary reviews of B.K. Raine’s Blood Toy, I was excited. Here I thought I was getting a vampire novel. Instead I got a Read more [...]
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