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Indie horror writer S.H. Cooper’s latest collection of twenty-two short stories focus squarely on women. Female protagonists and antagonists who are extraordinary in their own way, whether they are the heroes of their story or, something much more sinister. The stories within include: A pair of thrill-seekers looking for illicit excitement after breaking into an […]
4-Star Review
Billy Silver (Reviewed by Mort Stone)
Billy Silver by Daniel Volpe surprised me—in a good way. It’s a story about a junkie—Billy Silver—who is a despicable human being. Really, there is no other term which would fit. How bad can one man be? Well, he’s worse than those who doodle in the margins or tears pages out of library books. He’s […]
The Five Turns of the Wheel (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
Midsommar Meets Pan’s Labyrinth Folk Horror appears to be having something of a renaissance, both in film and literature. Not since the sub-genres heyday of the 1970s have we been spoiled with such an abundance of new stories of rural terror. It is a favorite genre of mine. The themes of isolation and belief work […]
The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 2 (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
The Rewind or Die series published by Unnerving are books after my own heart. Inspired by the rows of gaudy, gory and glorious horror VHS covers of the 1970s and 1980s, these books aim to be the literary equivalent of the video nasty and the lurid horror classics of the era. So, with my expectations […]
The Night Silver River Run Red (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
One of extreme horrors biggest names delivers a manic tale of bloodshed and mayhem in the fourth book in Death’s Head Press’s insanely popular Splatter Western Series. The once prosperous town of Silver River has its best days long behind it. Way off the beaten track and bypassed by the proposed new railroad, the once-bustling […]
Cooking For Cannibals Review
Cooking For Cannibals is my first experience with a Rich Leder novel and I was not disappointed. To restrict this book to a genre is impossible. It’s dark throughout, but contains social satire, horror, thriller, mystery, black humor and even romance. It’s all bizarrely mixed, but quite effective in combining key ingredients of all these […]
London Gothic (Reviewed by Mario Guslandi)
The present volume is the first one of an intended set of three collections, the other two being devoted to Manchester and Paris. In the meantime we enjoy the volume about London, where the new gothic can be traced to London’s secret corners, those corners which fascinate anyone who loves the city, including myself. Thus, […]
In Darkness, Shadows Breathe (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
Catherine Cavendish’s latest gothic horror offering from Flame Tree Press is a book I dove into immediately upon finishing her excellent novella The Malan Witch, so my expectations were high, but this book delivered big, both in terms of quality writing and great characters and settings. Carol is renting an upscale apartment that far exceeds […]
The Malan Witch (Reviewed by Richard Martin)
Set in a quaint, UK seaside town, The Malan Witch invoked a lot of memories of childhood holidays for me. Sandy beaches and blue seas, beachside cabins and seafront towns. These were fond and cherished memories until I read this book and Catherine Cavendish succeeded in making them retrospectively creepy and disturbing! Following the tragic […]
The Little Book of Lesser Known Monsters (Reviewed by Shane Staley)
Following up Rory Michaelson’s debut novel, Lesser Known Monsters, comes the The Little Book of Lesser Known Monsters, a companion short story collection that is set within the same world as the novel. I was the reviewer covering the novel, giving it four stars, back in October 2020. So I was eager to check in […]
