Publisher:  Raw Dog Screaming Press

   Bare Bone #6 continues its incredible legacy as one of the best Horror anthologies around with the 6th edition featuring 18 new stories and 11 poems.  Sometimes visceral and sometimes subtle, Bare Bone always has something for the horror fan no matter how you like it served.

   “Links” truly will send a shudder down your spine with it’s 21st century cyberspace terror and fomenting the fear of being careful who you talk to online and where you navigate your browser.  This ghastly tale gives a whole new meaning to on-demand ordering.  Great story by Kurt Newton.

   “Dead in Bug city” by Randy Chandler is certainly inspired by the films of George Romero in this tale of a zombie plague and a secured area of a big city where the living dead are penned up.  Borrowing from Romero’s own caustic wit, there is a pro-life group in the story that protests against the government’s plan to destroy them.  When one zombie is found to be exhibiting above normal intelligence, a special operative is sent in to extract her.

   “The Things in the House” is both creepy and yet whimsical short tale of the dark nasties that come out to play when the house is empty, and the even scarier thing that makes them hide when it returns home.  Story by Chris Ringler.

   “Daddy Didn’t Forget” by Mollie L. Burleson could be a sentimental Christmas story of a little girls fascination with the family Christmas tree…if it weren’t for that creepy old woodcutter ornament of her mothers…and his very sharp and shiny axe.

   Jeffrey A. Stadt’s very dark and dismal “A Dead Night’s Ride” finds a man who kills his girlfriend while in a meth amphetamine induced stupor.  While trying to cope with what he’s done, he finds a strange saddle on the beach…and a mysterious dark man rises from the sea to take him on a ride straight to the bowels of hell.

   Other stories are by Darren Speegle, Paul A. Toth, and C.C. Parker and poetry by Daniel C. Smith, John Hayes, Charlee Jacob and K.S. Hardy.  Check it out and I’m sure you’ll see why this is one of my favorite regular horror anthologies.

 - Tim Janson

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