Gris-Gris Gumbo Rick Koster JournalStone Publishing (June 23, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Rick Koster offers us a treat: what happens when Crayton Breaux, a clerk at a tourist trap voodoo shop in New Orleans’ French Quarter, starts dabbling in voodoo and discovers...
Everything the Darkness Eats Eric LaRocca CLASH Books (June 6, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Eric LaRocca is one of the big names in contemporary horror fiction, a kind of wunderkind whose work has regularly gone viral. I’ve had the chance to read his short fiction...
Walking the Dusk Mike Robinson JournalStone Publishing (May 12, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers I thought Walking the Dusk was going to be a simple ghost story, or maybe a tale of a young boy tormented by a demonic entity in childhood, and the implications of that...
Cold, Black, & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific & Strange Todd Keisling Cemetery Dance Publications (September 26, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers If you’ve been paying attention to horror anthologies in the last decade, you’ve undoubtedly come across the work...
Verushka Jan Stinchcomb JournalStone Publishing (July 7, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers I was delighted to read Jan Stinchcomb’s Verushka, a multi-generational horror story about a being—once a woman named Verushka—who can’t leave a family alone. She’s going to take...
