Short Film: HERE THERE BE MONSTERS
After incessant bullying on the bus ride home, a young girl falls asleep and ends up trapped inside the school bus at the empty depot, but her frustration quickly turns to dread when she sees something lurking in the vast dark yard - something big - and Elki’s going...
Free National Theatre: FRANKENSTEIN (Miller Version)
Frankenstein with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature is streaming for free from 7pm UK time on Friday 1 May. Available on demand until 7pm UK time on Friday 8 May. It is subtitled and the running time is 2 hours. See the cast swap roles with Benedict Cumberbatch as the...
Book Review: STRANGER STILL
Stranger Still Michaelbrent Collings Written Insomnia Press, 2020 Reviewed by Andrew Byers Stranger Still is a stand-alone sequel to Michaelbrent Collings’ horror thriller Strangers, which I reviewed way back in 2013. I enjoyed Strangers a lot, so was very pleasantly...
Book Review: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
The Best of Both Worlds S.P. Miskowski Trepidatio Publishing May 1, 2020 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale The Best of Both Worlds is a sequel to The Worst is Yet to Come in the sense that the plot runs parallel and the characters’ story arcs intersect in subtle yet...
Movie Review: KILLER SOFA
Killer Sofa Bernie Rao, Director High Octane Pictures, 2019 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Until last weekend, I was unaware of how much I needed Killer Sofa in my life. The Amazon blurb reads as thus: “When a killer Lazy Boy chair falls in love with a girl, it’s up to a...
THREADS by B. Renard
“Oh, good. You found him for me.” The door rattled as it shut, jingling the small cascade of bells attached to it. Both of the lobby’s current occupants looked up, one flinching back and the other rising from the shabbily-worn sofa to greet the tall, thin young man....
Read Wins Stoker for First Novel
We're thrilled to announce that Sarah Read's debut, The Bone Weaver's Orchard (Trepidatio) has won the 2019 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel! Congratulations to Sarah for this well-deserved honor. Sarah's reading from The Bone Weaver's...
Bram Stoker Awards® Set for Livestreaming
The 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® will now be livestreamed on Saturday, April 18th, 2020, with readings by finalists beginning at 5pm PST (8pm EST).
Short Film: CARNIVORE
An irreverent financial thriller where the thrill is in the company you eat.
AND DROWN MELANCHOLY by Scarlett R. Algee
AND DROWN MELANCHOLY by Scarlett R. Algee The headache has lasted nineteen days. Nineteen days. Charlotte can count every one of them. It had started the day after she'd spiked her Coke a little too vigorously and stumbled into the pond at the company picnic: an...
Q&A with Adam L. G. Nevill
Editor’s note: The following is a Q&A between reviewer Ray Palen and Adam L. G. Nevill, author of The Reddening. RP: Are 'the red people' based on any particular historical people. or are they fully a product of your fertile imagination? AN: The idea for the...
Book Review: ARTERIAL BLOOM
Arterial Bloom Edited and illustrated by Mercedes M. Yardley Crystal Lake Publishing (April 3, 2020) Review by Bret McCormick Arterial Bloom is a beautiful book: beautiful in its design, with memorable illustrations, and beautiful in its use of the language. Mercedes...
Short Film: MYSTERY BOX
A woman named Moa is on vacation in the solitude of a cabin, on a small Island outside of Stockholm. One day when checking her fishing net, an old metal box is stuck in it. She takes it with her and place it in a shed nearby, to dispose of later. Right after dinner, a...
INSTANT SWIMMERS by Ronald Malfi
INSTANT SWIMMERS by Ronald Malfi For the first fifty years of his life, Donald Broome enjoyed an existence of predictability and contentment that only a true practitioner of bachelorhood can know. An accountant by both nature and profession, Broome arrived at the firm...
Book Review: DEAD END
Dead End Chris DiLeo JournalStone (March 27, 2020) Reviewed by Bret McCormick When I laid eyes on the cover art for the book Dead End by Chris DiLeo, my first thought was, “I wouldn’t mind having a poster of that hanging on my wall.” Kudos to Don Noble of Rooster...
