Exigencies Edited by Richard Thomas Darkhouse Press June 9, 2015 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Horror can serve a number of contradictory functions. It can destroy, and it can build. It can condemn, and it can commend. It can terrify, and it can heal. For me as...
Beneath London James P. Blaylock Titan Books Reviewed by Michael R. Collings James P. Blaylock’s Beneath London is the long, dense, complex, multi-charactered sequel to The Aylesford Skull, with its hero, Professor Langdon St. Ives. St. Ives is central in this novel...
The Hitchhiking Effect Gene O’Neill Dark Renaissance Books 2015 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings It is rare when a collection of stories and novellas spanning some thirty years leaves me with a single, overwhelming emotional impression. In the case of Gene O’Neill’s...
The Fifth House of the Heart Ben Tripp Gallery/Simon & Schuster 2015 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Veteran antiques dealer Asmodeus Saxon-Tang—widely known simply as Sax—is just stubborn enough not to allow the mysterious woman to outbid him on an ormolu clock;...
FUBAR: A Collection of War Stories Weston Ochse Cohesion Press May 25, 2015 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Weston Ochse’s newest collection of short stories, novellas, and non-fiction is titled FUBAR—military slang for “Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition”—although many...
