Read Wins Stoker for First Novel
We're thrilled to announce that Sarah Read's debut, The Bone Weaver's Orchard (Trepidatio) has won the 2019 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel! Congratulations to Sarah for this well-deserved honor. Sarah's reading from The Bone Weaver's...
Bram Stoker Awards® Set for Livestreaming
The 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® will now be livestreamed on Saturday, April 18th, 2020, with readings by finalists beginning at 5pm PST (8pm EST).
Short Film: CARNIVORE
An irreverent financial thriller where the thrill is in the company you eat.
AND DROWN MELANCHOLY by Scarlett R. Algee
AND DROWN MELANCHOLY by Scarlett R. Algee The headache has lasted nineteen days. Nineteen days. Charlotte can count every one of them. It had started the day after she'd spiked her Coke a little too vigorously and stumbled into the pond at the company picnic: an...
Q&A with Adam L. G. Nevill
Editor’s note: The following is a Q&A between reviewer Ray Palen and Adam L. G. Nevill, author of The Reddening. RP: Are 'the red people' based on any particular historical people. or are they fully a product of your fertile imagination? AN: The idea for the...
Book Review: ARTERIAL BLOOM
Arterial Bloom Edited and illustrated by Mercedes M. Yardley Crystal Lake Publishing (April 3, 2020) Review by Bret McCormick Arterial Bloom is a beautiful book: beautiful in its design, with memorable illustrations, and beautiful in its use of the language. Mercedes...
Short Film: MYSTERY BOX
A woman named Moa is on vacation in the solitude of a cabin, on a small Island outside of Stockholm. One day when checking her fishing net, an old metal box is stuck in it. She takes it with her and place it in a shed nearby, to dispose of later. Right after dinner, a...
INSTANT SWIMMERS by Ronald Malfi
INSTANT SWIMMERS by Ronald Malfi For the first fifty years of his life, Donald Broome enjoyed an existence of predictability and contentment that only a true practitioner of bachelorhood can know. An accountant by both nature and profession, Broome arrived at the firm...
Book Review: DEAD END
Dead End Chris DiLeo JournalStone (March 27, 2020) Reviewed by Bret McCormick When I laid eyes on the cover art for the book Dead End by Chris DiLeo, my first thought was, “I wouldn’t mind having a poster of that hanging on my wall.” Kudos to Don Noble of Rooster...
Book Review: THE REDDENING
THE REDDENING Adam L.G. Nevill Ritual Limited (October 31, 2019) Reviewed by Ray Palen If you enjoy your horror with a historic premise, along with a dash of the gothic thrown in for good measure, you need look no further than this terrific thrill-fest from British...
Update: StokerCon UK and the Bram Stoker Awards®
Many events in the horror world have been rescheduled or postponed in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With that in mind, we have new information on StokerCon UK and the Bram Stoker Awards®. The 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® will now be presented virtually on...
New Release: DEAD END
DEAD END Chris DiLeo JournalStone (March 27, 2020) Home can be a refuge . . . Mike Munacy was eleven years old when he watched his father commit suicide, jumping off the towering hill behind his house to die in the grass at Mike’s feet. Fourteen years later, Mike and...
Short Horror Film: DO YOU SEE IT TOO?
Starring Chlöe Crump, Jay Podmore and Jack Davies, from Superfreak Media. (Warning: contains flashing/strobing images.)
Book Review: MONGRELS
Mongrels Stephen Graham Jones Wm. Morrow/Harper Collins, 2016 Review by Bret McCormick What’s it like living in a werewolf family? What happens when a werewolf gets old? If werewolves exist, why aren’t we certain of it? How have werewolves adapted to modern...
Book Review: WHISKEY AND OTHER UNUSUAL GHOSTS
Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts S.L. Edwards July 15, 2019 (Gehenna & Hinnom) Reviewed by Bret McCormick It’s been said that the sweet spot for horror fiction is between 1500 and 4000 words. Many of the most famous horror stories fall in line with this...
Crestwood Lake is a secluded town in northern Vermont, spawned from the
Salem Witch Trials. In a saga spanning four hundred years and two
continents, Satan and his coven of witches are determined to reclaim the
tortured community and establish a Hell on Earth. markvogel.info
