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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
