Unearthed – Book Review
Gina Ranalli spins a deliriously fast paced monster tale in “Unearthed.” The novella wastes no time getting things started. Rebecca, the main character, discovers a large sinkhole on her property. Though this befuddles her, this opening scene is more foreshadowing...
It Drinks Blood
“It Drinks Blood,” an intriguing, well written novella from J. F. Gonzalez, has an original premise. Robert, who serves as the first person narrator throughout, lives in a nursing home. One day, a new patient arrives, Allison, and he recognizes her as a teenager he...
Predatory Instinct
Michael McBride provides an action packed plot laced with exciting creature horror in “Predatory Instinct.” While the general premise and formula has been done before, this horror-science fiction thriller offers enough surprises and well-crafted characters to...
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” 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
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
“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,” 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...
Black Out
“I’m gonna rape the shit out of that c**t…” And so, we mourn the death of a movie. This is a movie that already drowns any potential suspense in a welter of soapy, soppy, silly flashback scenes that suggest someone wanted to make an elevator-based suspense movie...
Black House (Geomeun jip)
There are only certain movies I can tolerate when it comes to reading subtitles, and those films are usually masterpieces in their own right Pan's Labyrinth, OldBoy, Battle Royale, Ringu and Inside, are ones that have good stories, so as someone who does not speak any...
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...
Black Death
Magnet Releasing has put out some very good films in the past few years. I have to admit that whoever is making the decisions at the company about the kinds of films that are being purchased for distribution has a good eye for cinema, especially when it comes to...
Darkness Falls
“Darkness Falls” is the first work I have read by Leverone. He is a skilled writer, develops character and setting well and is capable of creating suspense and a sense of foreboding dread. I would even be interested in checking out more of his writing. The reason I...
Olden
Delirium Books offers another great disturbing novella with James Newman’s “Olden.” This can easily be read in one sitting and that is recommended to get the full effect of its powerful narrative structure. An unexplained phenomenon has transformed the elderly into...
Ogrish Magazine – Magazine Review
First off, I need to go on record as saying that I'm not really into magazines like this. I don't enjoy looking at dead bodies and the way people have been killed. I honestly don't know how this magazine was sent to me, and I don't recall ever getting an e-mail or...
