Consume Kourtnea Hogan Bizarro Pulp Press (July 29, 2022) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Consume is the story of thirteen-year-old Tegan, a girl with highly identifiable social and body image issues. Tegan is dealing with the trauma of her mother’s recent death due to...
We Haunt These Woods Holley Cornetto Bleeding Edge Books (July 19, 2022) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale We Haunt These Woods is a truly entertaining read, with nods to horror tropes that fans will enjoy. Wooded areas can be peaceful and meditative, or they can be...
An Unheavenly Host CE Ward Sarob Press, 2022 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi This is the fourth collection of horror and ghost stories by British author CE Ward. The previous three collections (also published by the excellent small imprint Sarob Press) are now out of...
The Puppet King and Other Atonements Justin A. Burnett Trepidatio Publishing (May 20, 2022) Reviewed by Andrew Byers I can see why Burnett’s prose has been compared to the likes of Jon Padgett, Brian Evenson, and Thomas Ligotti. Part of that is subject matter—Burnett...
What Festers Within Mark N. Drake July 18, 2022 Reviewed by Andrew Byers Over the last couple years, Mark N. Drake has created and developed a fictional place, Darkisle, a foreboding island inhabited by Lovecraftian horrors and cultists, where he has set two previous...
Of Starfish Tides and Other Tales Suzanne J. Willis Trepidatio Publishing (May 6, 2022) Reviewed by Andrew Byers I’ve always been a fan of fantasy, but mostly gave up on the genre years ago when it became clear that many fantasy authors were more interested in...
