Book Review: THE REDDENING
THE REDDENING Adam L.G. Nevill Ritual Limited (October 31, 2019) Reviewed by Ray Palen If you enjoy your horror with a historic premise, along with a dash of the gothic thrown in for good measure, you need look no further than this terrific thrill-fest from British...
Update: StokerCon UK and the Bram Stoker Awards®
Many events in the horror world have been rescheduled or postponed in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With that in mind, we have new information on StokerCon UK and the Bram Stoker Awards®. The 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® will now be presented virtually on...
New Release: DEAD END
DEAD END Chris DiLeo JournalStone (March 27, 2020) Home can be a refuge . . . Mike Munacy was eleven years old when he watched his father commit suicide, jumping off the towering hill behind his house to die in the grass at Mike’s feet. Fourteen years later, Mike and...
Short Horror Film: DO YOU SEE IT TOO?
Starring Chlöe Crump, Jay Podmore and Jack Davies, from Superfreak Media. (Warning: contains flashing/strobing images.)
Book Review: MONGRELS
Mongrels Stephen Graham Jones Wm. Morrow/Harper Collins, 2016 Review by Bret McCormick What’s it like living in a werewolf family? What happens when a werewolf gets old? If werewolves exist, why aren’t we certain of it? How have werewolves adapted to modern...
Book Review: WHISKEY AND OTHER UNUSUAL GHOSTS
Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts S.L. Edwards July 15, 2019 (Gehenna & Hinnom) Reviewed by Bret McCormick It’s been said that the sweet spot for horror fiction is between 1500 and 4000 words. Many of the most famous horror stories fall in line with this...
Movie Trailer: THE OTHER LAMB
For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over...
Book Review: SHOUT KILL REVEL REPEAT at NerdGoblin.com
Over at NerdGoblin.com, Erica Ruppert has given Scott R. Jones' Shout Kill Revel Repeat a tremendous review, with praise such as: "Jones does a remarkable job of conveying the utterly alien incomprehensibility of the Lovecraftian cosmos. His characters struggle to...
SUMMER OF LOVECRAFT: Book Review
Summer of Lovecraft Edited by Brian M. Sammons and Glynn Owen Barrass Dark Regions Press (February 9, 2020) Review by Bret McCormick What do you get when you cross the 1960s with the Cthulhu Mythos? Summer of Lovecraft, an anthology edited by Brian M. Sammons and...
THE NIGHT THEY KNOCKED: Trailer
The Night They Knocked (Cinester Films) is a new feature-length horror film written and directed by Sean Roberts, and nominated for Best Feature Film / Best Director at the 2019 New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival. From the official website: In the heart of the...
Book Review: UNCERTAINTIES, Vol. 4
UNCERTAINTIES, vol IV Edited by Timothy J. Jarvis The Swan River Press, 2020 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Here’s the fourth volume of the critically acclaimed Uncertainties anthology series from the distinguished Irish imprint, The Swan River Press. The present volume...
Book Review: BINOCULAR
Binocular Nick Sidhu, Kelly Smith (authors) Mutant Hoof Books (December 2019) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Nick Sidhu and Kelly Smith wear many hats. Sidhu is an actor and game developer, in addition to being an author; Smith is an author and filmmaker. They have...
Women in Horror: “The Baron of Bourbon Street” at the Wicked Library
Listen here: https://thewickedlibrary.com/wihm2020-3/ Alfonse de Cartier is the modern day descendant of one of the greatest mambo priestesses New Orleans has ever seen. Unfortunately for Al, as his colleagues at the New Orleans police department call him, all that...
Book Release: 25 TRUMBULLS ROAD
Winner of the Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition This house has seen things it won’t let you forget. When a new family moves in to the house at 25 Trumbulls Road, the narrator’s vivid dreams of a teary-eyed, raw-smelling woman who lives beneath the floor turn...
Movie Trailer: VIVARIUM
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. In theaters March 27, 2020.
