New Release: Scott R. Jones’ SHOUT KILL REVEL REPEAT
You who read me, do you know what it is you read? On a mission to recover an ancient artifact, an amnesiac girl unlocks the terrible secret of humanity’s past and future. The implementation of a radical new technology sends an unlucky test pilot into a dimension of...
Movie Review – SLAUGHTERHOUSE SLUMBER PARTY
Slaughterhouse Slumber Party Dustin Mills Productions, 2019 Reviewed by Rick Hipson The raunchy fun starts with a scantily-clad woman puking in the crapper before psyching herself up to get back to the party. Hey, isn’t that how slumber parties are supposed to end,...
New Release: Justin Joschko’s WHITETOOTH FALLS
Homicide detective David Moore has never had a case quite like this: a series of savage murders targeting the family of Frank Ballaro, a mafia kingpin with half the city of Niagara Falls in his pocket. The killer strikes with inhuman violence, and always on the night...
New Release: Sarah Read’s OUT OF WATER
This is an invitation to drowning. These are the stories of things out of water—of sea bed deserts choked with ghosts; of the lonely, roving children of the fen. Here your garden grows belowground. You will be born into a cradle of your own bones, shadows will burst...
The Haunted Casinos of Las Vegas
Haunted houses and castles are frequent in horror movies, but no one has seen a movie about haunted casinos, in fact, few people knew that casinos can be haunted. Horror games scare gamers all over the world and punters enjoy horror casino games on various websites...
Annabelle Comes Home – Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Review
Annabelle Comes Home 2019 Director: Gary Dauberman Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mckenna Grace Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons I am starting to get sick of “The Conjuring Universe,” or as my wife calls it, the Waniverse. They started off fine, with James...
Night Train – Mini Review
Night Train Thomas F. Monteleone June 3, 2015 Borderland Press and Gauntlet Press Reviewed by Rick Hipson Beneath the streets of New York, an underground labyrinth full of nightmarish creatures threatens an unsuspecting metropolis. An unlikely troupe...
The Second Corona Book of HORROR STORIES – Book Review
The Second Corona Book of HORROR STORIES Edited by: Lewis Williams Corona Books UK October 1, 2018 Reviewed by Brian James Lewis Welcome readers! Today I will be spreading the good word about The Second Corona Book of Horror Stories. This is an absolutely stunning...
River of Souls – Book Review
River of Souls T.L. Bodine 2019 Trepidatio Reviewed by Gordon B. White T.L. Bodine’s new novel River of Souls (Trepidatio, 2019) is a zombie story for our times. Eschewing the overtly cataclysmic or apocalyptic, Bodine grounds her Undead in a recognizable...
The Curse of La Llorona – Blu-ray Review
The Curse of la Llorona 2019 Director: Michael Chaves Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Another movie in the Conjuring Universe, or as my wife calls it, the Wanaverse. Do we really need this? Not to be sure, I like...
Devil’s Breath – Book Review
Devil’s Breath Greg F. Gifune 2019 JournalStone Reviewed by Andrew Byers I’m really happy to see JournalStone get Devil’s Breath back in print because I didn’t get a chance to pick it up when Dark Fuse originally published it in 2015. If you haven’t yet had a chance...
And Cannot Come Again – Book Review
AND CANNOT COME AGAIN Simon Bestwick 2019 Chizine Publications Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Simon Bestwick, admittedly, is one of the more brilliant contemporary British authors of dark fiction (for once the words of praise by his fellow writers included at the...
Calcutta Horror: A Graphic Novel – Book Review
CALCUTTA HORROR: A Graphic Novel Alessandro Manzetti Stefano Cardoselli (Ilustrations) Independent Legions Publishing May 15, 2019 Reviewed by Brian James Lewis I’m just going to start out by saying that Calcutta Horror is powerful stuff! This is what we’ve come to...
Pieces – Book Review
Pieces Michael Aloisi & Rebecca Rowland Dark Ink Books September 13, 2019 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Pieces is the story of killer Dennis Sweeney, who abducts Julie Piedmont, dismembers her, and sends thirty pieces of her body to random recipients across...
Kthulhu Reich – Book Review
Kthulhu Reich Ken Asamatsu (Jim Rion – Translator) Kurodahan Press May 29, 2019 Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Kurodahan Press has made a name for themselves by bringing Japanese horror, most notable horror well steeped in the cosmic weird fiction that H.P. Lovecraft...