White Knuckle – Book Review
White Knuckle Eric Red Samhain June 2, 2015 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon Eric Red’s White Knuckle is as high octane a horror thriller as they come. It is a cross between Silence of the Lambs and Richard Matheson’s Duel. It also bears a very slight resemblance to the...
Apocalypse Girl Dreaming – Book Review
Apocalypse Girl Dreaming Jennifer Brozek Evil Girlfriend Media January, 2015 Reviewed by Alex Scully Short story collections are a unique animal in the book world. A novel allows the reader to dive in with abandon. An anthology is like a buffet of writers and tales....
FUBAR – Book Review
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...
The Red Mohawk – Book Review
The Red Mohawk Anonymous Black Shadow Press May 20, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter A new novel that fluctuates between page-turning fun and frustrating self-consciousness, The Red Mohawk, by Anonymous just can’t find seem to find its focus. The prose is generally sharp...
The Landscape of Horror: An Interview with Kealan Patrick Burke
Guest Post by Rob E. Boley This is one of my final stops on my internet tour to promote my dark fantasy series, The Scary Tales. I’ve already done a bunch of interviews in the past few weeks, so for this post I wanted to switch things up and take the role of...
Revival – Book Review
Revival Stephen King Gallery/Simon & Schuster Reviewed by Michael R. Collings When I began reading Stephen King’s Revival, I finished the first quarter in one sitting. Then for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of King’s tale—which was excellent—I...
In the Gulfs of Dream and Other Lovecraftian Tales – Book Review
In the Gulfs of Dream and Other Lovecraftian Tales David Barker and W.H. Pugmire Dark Renaissance Books Reviewed by Alex Scully Each year, there are dozens of Lovecraftian writings released. Anthologies “based on,” novels “inspired by,” and other odd assortments of...
The Immortalists – Book Review
The Immortalists Andrew Hook Telos Publishing March 22, 2014 Reviewed by Tim Potter The first book in the Mardent series, The Immortalists, by Andrew Hook is a well executed blend of private eye fiction, noir and horror elements. The story follows former cop and...
‘Cutting the Bloodline’ Book Tour – Dystopia
There is a place where fantasy, horror, and science fiction like to meet. That place is called Dystopia. Horror relies on finding people's fears, and while ghosts, serial killers, aliens, and even sharks in freak weather conditions, will always hit the mark, dystopian...
The Doorway – Book Review
The Doorway Alan Spencer Samhain Publishing August 4, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Alan Spencer’s latest Samhain Horror release, The Doorway, is an interesting and entertaining blend of extreme horror and classic mystery. The story centers around Morty Saggs, a...
Monster Hunter International – Book Review
Monster Hunter International Larry Correia Baen 2009 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Larry Correia’s Monster Hunters International is a hoot…literally, figuratively, and every way in between. More than that, however, it is deeply, essentially comedic on multiple...
Tin Men – Book Review
Tin Men Christopher Golden Ballantine Books June 23, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Christopher Golden’s latest novel, Tin Men, is a rip-roaring science-fiction military adventure that starts at breakneck speed and never lets up until the last words fall off the page....
Mutt – Book Review
Mutt Shane McKenzie Rothco Press March 27, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Shane McKenzie has become known, in recent years, as a quality writer of extreme horror. His work often deals with interesting and diverse themes like gluttony and lucha libre, set against the...
Black Star, Black Sun – Book Review
Black Star, Black Sun Rich Hawkins April Moon Books February 15th, 2015 Reviewed by Stuart Conover In Black Star, Black Sun, Rich Hawkins gives us a wonderful tale of Lovecraftian delight! In the novella we follow Ben Ottway who, after the loss of his wife, is...
May JournalStone Hellnotes Newsletter
I have to start the newsletter this month by saying CONGRATULATIONS to Joe R. Lansdale! "Fishing With Dinosaurs," his contribution to Limbus II, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction at the Horror Writers Association convention in Atlanta...
