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...

The Apartment Kevin Bachar Independently published (December 20, 2024) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham In The Apartment, we meet the main character, Kat, as a child whose father is a degenerate gambler. She helps him cheat at the local casino blackjack table with the...

Felicia’s Christmas Vengeance Ben Kardos Godless (2023) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy Christmas carols, fireside tales, baking cookies, and visiting your family are normal family traditions, but Felicia, a nine-year-old, has a new and deadly tradition. She wants Santa...

Sacrilege Barbara Avon Independently published (October 26, 2020) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy I am in love with this book. If I could marry this book and have its little odd children tell me more stories, I would happily do that. In fact, I want to know more about all...

28 Years Haunted B. D. Prince Ghastly Press (October 21, 2023) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham 28 Years Haunted is a biography of Brandy Marie Miller, a psychic medium. In the first part of the book, we learn about her life growing up and the fact that these...

Landlocked in Foreign Skin Drew Huff Independently published (January 28, 2025) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy “Everything can change. Inevitability is a lie. Just when you think you know the future, that you’ve managed to grasp forward in time and figure it out, it...

The Collected Works of S. Mukerji Edited by Eric J. Guignard Dark Moon Books (November 26, 2024) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham The Collected Works of S. Mukerji is an interesting book on more than one level. There are two sections to this slim volume, and they...

I Know What UFO Did Last Summer Kevin Garone Temor Press (March 11, 2025) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy This book is a hilarious elementary sci-fi elementary tale also entertaining for adults. Garone’s humor shines on the page and his characters are snarky, witty, brave...

Worn Skin: Tattoos are More Than Just Symbols Torgeir Blok Independently published (September 3, 2024) Reviewed by Nora B. Peevy The beginning of this book is hard to jump into, but once I got past the scene on the train, I was pulled into a world of intrigue, magic,...

Bleedthrough and Other Small Horrors Scarlett R. Algee Cold War Radio Press (May 26, 2020) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham I must admit that this is my first foray into flash fiction, and with Scarlett Algee’s Bleedthrough and Other Small Horrors, I regret that I am...