Black Feathers—Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology Ellen Datlow, ed. Pegasus February 7, 2017 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings I was excited to see the first notices of Ellen Datlow’s Black Feathers—Dark Avian Tales. Any Datlow anthology is usually well worth reading; the...
Revenge of the Vampir King (Thrones of Blood Book 1) Nancy Kilpatrick Crossroad Press Feb 1, 2017 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale She has done it again: Nancy Kilpatrick has added yet another interesting twist to the vampire tale. I am a vampire purist, so I was thrilled...
Wicked Witches Various Authors New England Horror Writers Press October 11, 2016 Reviewed by Matthew Scott Baker For most writers, crafting short stories takes a lot of effort and sometimes, even brute force. When the words won’t put themselves together in a coherent...
The Parts We Play Stephen Volk 2016 PS Publishing Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Widely known as a successful screenwriter (Ghostwatch, Gothic, The Awakening) Stephen Volk is also a very fine author of horror/dark fiction, whose stories have been appearing, during the...
Primordial David Wood and Alan Baxter 2017 Cohesion Press Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Primordial, by David Wood and Alan Baxter, is a print version of the classic “Creature Feature,” outlining the search for a purported Nessie-like monster in an out-of-the-way...
SNAFU: Unnatural Selection (SNAFU #7) Amanda J. Spedding and Geoff Brown, Editors Cohesion Press December 8, 2016 Reviewed by David Goudsward The SNAFU series is an ongoing series of anthologies about some aspect of military horror. In this case, SNAFU: Unnatural...