Short Sharp Shocks! Elizabeth Hartl’s collection of horror shorts delivers twelve tales of terror in 51 pages, a perfect book for getting a quick horror fix for genre fans on the go! “Stickpin” tells the tale of two greedy sisters who go to extreme lengths to obtain the inheritance their recently departed father denied them […]
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Offstage Offerings (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
The Phantom of the Opera meets Gargoyles Vivian is a college student with aspirations of being an actor. She has stayed behind for the summer break so she can take a job working as a counsellor for a theater camp at the notorious Haunted Basilio Theater. She is excited to share her knowledge and earn […]
The Wired City (Reviewed by Mort Stone)
Demain Publishing’s new series Weird! Wonderful! Other Worlds! has brought out their second book: The Wired City by Yolanda Sfetsos. Imagine Blade Runner meets I, Robot…but without any humans. Tolliver (Tolli to her non-existent friends) is just another android in a city full of mindless androids—and she hates writing silly slogans when she wants to […]
The Bone Factory (Reviewed by Stone & Martin)
The Mort Stone Review What an interesting story this turned out to be! This story by Yolanda Sfetsos takes you into a very corrupt world in a city called Lorn. Max Patella is a P.I. who gets called in by the police when there are cases they don’t want to handle themselves. With the discovery […]
The Raven King (Reviewed by Mort Stone)
Demain Publishing is branching out, and silly old me didn’t even wonder why they called this the WWW (Weird! Wonderful! Other Worlds) series. Turns out, this is not horror but fantasy / sci-fi. In all honesty, it is not genres I usually read, so it is a little difficult to draw comparisons to other stories […]
Pure Sacrilege (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
He has tackled fairy tales and legends, Christmas and the Covid-19 pandemic and, with Patrick Kill’s latest collection of shorts, he has his sights firmly set on faith and religion. Joining the proud ranks of Bryan Smith’s Some Crazy F**king S**t that Happened One Day and Carlton Mellick III’s Cannibals of Candyland and other books […]
Brewtality (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
An Alcohol Infused Extreme Horror Anthology Author K. Trap Jones has brought together some of the biggest current and up and coming names in extreme horror and delivered fifteen brand new tales of horror at its worst, including; A group of friends who discover an event from their past may have blessed them with immortality […]
Curfew (Reviewed by Mort Stone)
When you take your girlfriend for an anniversary getaway, there are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive the weekend. Some of them are universal: You can’t handle the truth! Double tap. It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again. There’s no crying in […]
GRAD NIGHT by Carver Pike (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
The Kids Aren’t Alright! Fans of Bentley Little will find a new favorite author in Carver Pike. His recent novel, Grad Night, has it all: spooky school, creepy kids and bizarre supernatural goings-on. Charlie is a teacher at DS High School, where the students are unruly, unpredictable and growing increasingly violent. The teachers fear for […]
A VERY COVID CHRISTMAS by Patrick Kill (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
In Patrick Kill’s latest collection of comedy-horror tales we get 6 festive tales set firmly in 2020, as all stories are centered around the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Fertile ground for comedy, right? The six stories on offer are: “Secretion Santa” – A lonely office worker receives her annual Secret Santa gifts, with a dark twist […]