Book Review: AZATHOTH: ORDO AB CHAO
Azathoth: Ordo ab Chao Edited by Aaron J. French JournalStone Publishing (August 4, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Having read French’s previous edited Cthulhu Mythos collection, The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft, also for JournalStone, I was looking forward to seeing what...
Book Review: UNSPEAKABLE HORROR 3: DARK RAINBOW RISING
Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising Victor A. Liaguno (ed.) Crystal Lake Publishing (June 21, 2023) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Don’t let the rainbow fool you—it is a dark one. The rainbow is a reminder of highs and lows, of starting points and of falling back....
Book Review: GRIS-GRIS GUMBO
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...
Book Review: VERUSHKA
Verushka Jan Stinchcomb JournalStone (July 7, 2023) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy Jan Stinchcomb lives in the world of fairytales. Her stories are steeped in the old-world fairytales with a modern retelling. Her latest novel, Verushka, is about a family cursed for three...
Shadow House Publishing: WHEN DARKNESS ANSWERS
Shadow House Publishing Announces the Release of: WHEN DARKNESS ANSWERS by William P. Simmons We tell the dark our deepest secrets, fears, and desires. What if, one night, the darkness should reply? Darkness isn’t simply the absence of light, it’s a living, breathing...
Book Review: THE TRICK
The Trick Douglas Ford Madness Heart Press (May 14, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale The Trick is an exciting read, and I devoured it with a surprising quickness. Ford writes of the surreal, yet a reader is eased into every plot point so that the logic of the story is...
Book Review: ELEMENT OF DOUBT
ELEMENT OF DOUBT: Ghost Stories A.L. Barker Valancourt Books, 2023 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Audrey Lilian Barker ( 1918-2002) was a prolific author of novels and short story collections, now largely forgotten. The present volume reprints her collection Element of...
Book Review: THIRTEEN PLUS-1
Thirteen Plus-1 Lovecraftian Narratives Nancy Kilpatrick NKPublishing (May 14, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale In Thirteen Plus-1, Nancy Kilpatrick has pulled together stories from prior publications that hearken to the style of Lovecraft. While the stories were...
Book Review: EVERYTHING THE DARKNESS EATS
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...
Book Review: WHAT MOVES THE DEAD
What Moves the Dead T. Kingfisher Tor Nightfire (July 12, 2022) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham T. Kingfisher, author of the splendid book The Twisted Ones, has once again hit it out of the park with her novella, What Moves the Dead. Having read Poe’s “The Fall of the...
Book Review: LITTLE MUTILATIONS
Little Mutilations: Three Body Horror Novellas Jess Landry, Sofia Ajram, & Nadia Bulkin Crystal Lake Publishing (April 25, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale It is probably unnecessary to announce that I loved an offering from Crystal Lake Publishing. I have read most...
Book Review: HORSEMAN
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow Christina Henry Berkley (September 28th, 2021), 302 Pages Reviewed by Carson Buckingham Christina Henry has picked up where Washington Irving left off. She takes us to Tarrytown, New York, thirty years after Brom Bones drove his...
Advance Review: WALKING THE DUSK
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...
Advance Review: COLD, BLACK & INFINITE
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...
Advance Review: VERUSHKA
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...
