Samson & Denial

Samson & Denial

“Samson and Denial” from Robert Ford is gritty dark crime tale with a twist of the supernatural. This novella is easily read in a sitting or two due to its fast pace and wonderful first person narrative reminiscent of a great film noir or pulp novel of the past....
Borealis

Borealis

“Borealis” by Ronald Malfi is an intense novella of supernatural horror. Malfi is a strong writer and provides great character development and realistic setting details to create a wonderfully creepy and suspenseful tale of horror in the frozen waters of the Bering...
Dead of Winter

Dead of Winter

Brian Moreland’s supernatural thriller, “Dead of Winter,” takes place in 1878, in the Ontario wilderness. A remote fort there falls victim to a plague that turns its victims into cannibalistic predators. Early sections of the novel move between the fort and a parallel...
The Seven Days of Cain

The Seven Days of Cain

“Seven Days of Cain,” by Ramsey Campbell, is a great novel by a master of the horror genre. I want to make it clear up from that the Scare Factor rating above being lower than the overall rating is not a slight to the author or the novel. This particular Campbell...
Blood Society

Blood Society

“Blood Society,” by Jeffrey Thomas is a thrilling horror novel infused with an exciting subtext of gangster lore. Thomas uses this unique hybrid to narrate the fascinating story of Attilio Augusta, a man transformed in his youth in Sicily into a creature somewhat like...
SkullBelly

SkullBelly

“Skullbelly,” by Ronald Malfi, is an excellent novella of crime fiction with hints of a possible supernatural element to Private Detective Jon Jeffers’ case involving three missing teenagers. A fourth teenage boy returned from the same trip into the woods covered in...