Atmospheric Disturbances Helen Grant Swan River Press (2024) Reviewed by Mario Guslandi I won’t conceal the fact that Helen Grant is one of my favourite authors of dark fiction, so much so that in the past I even read (and reviewed) one of her novels, which represents...
Bogganmor Mark N. Drake Aethos Publications (February 4, 2025) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Mark N. Drake returns to the foreboding and wonderfully atmospheric Darkisle in Bogganmor, the fifth installment in the Glennison Darkisle Cases series. Once again, Jack Glennison,...
Camp Damascus Chuck Tingle Tor Nightfire (July 18, 2023) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy This book was particularly hard for me to read. The raw emotion on the page reflected my own struggles with being accepted by family as a bisexual woman, but at least I never got sent...
The Night Birds Christopher Golden St. Martin’s Press (May 6, 2025) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham The Night Birds provides a unique setting—a creepy, half-sunken, rusty old freighter, the Cristabel, that ran aground off the coast of Galveston, Texas in the 19th...
Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales Jamal Hodge, ed. Crystal Lake Publishing (October 4, 2024) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham I have good news and bad news, so let’s get the bad news out of the way first. Bestiary of Blood is a confusingly-presented home...
Sycamore Ian Rogers Cemetery Dance Publications (September 29, 2012) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham For those of you who haven’t read anything by Ian Rogers, you need to remedy that situation with a quickness. He is one of the premier horror authors of our day, ranking...
