8:59:29 Polly Schattel Trepidatio Publishing (February 24, 2023) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy Hetta D. Salter is a disgruntled female film professor without tenure in a small poverty-stricken college in the Appalachian Mountains. Her students are overprivileged and...
THE CANAL and Other Weird Stories Everil Worrell Weird House Press, 2023 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Not very well known to the current fans of gothic and horror fiction, Everil Worrell has been a not too prolific but faithful contributor to the legendary magazine ...
The Globster of Cape Frankfurt C. F. Page Strange Elf Press (October 2, 2022) Review by Elaine Pascale The Globster of Cape Frankfurt is simply a good story. It is an enjoyable read that asks nothing of you except that you go along for the ride. The narrative voice is...
Dark Is Better Gemma Files Trepidatio Publishing (February 3, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers If you’ve been reading any weird fiction or cosmic horror collections in the last decade or two, you’ve seen the name Gemma Files appear prominently on the tables of contents...
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith (eds.) Black Spot Books (February 14, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale Ghost stories shape us. Ghost stories are conceived within shared culture; they are passed down in family...
The Rack and Cue David Owain Hughes Plumfukt Press (November 16, 2022) Reviewed by Andrew Byers In The Rack and Cue, David Owain Hughes provides us with a promising premise: In the middle of nowhere during a terrible storm, an English pub (the eponymous “Rack and...
