The Final Girl Support Group Grady Hendrix Berkley (July 13, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen Grady Hendrix understands what the horror genre is all about. Whether he is focusing on long-lost soft-cover titles in his nonfiction work PAPERBACKS FROM HELL or exploring modern...
Fright Train The Switch House Gang (editors) Haverhill House Publishing (July 25, 2021) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Train tracks are a source of wonderment. It is impossible to look at the stretches of steel and not image where the line begins and where it ends. Fright...
Where All Is Night, and Starless John Linwood Grant Trepidatio Publishing (July 9, 2021) Reviewed by Andrew Byers While John Linwood Grant was well known to me as the esteemed editor of Occult Detective Magazine and many other fine collections, I wasn’t familiar with...
Sisters in Arms Erica Ruppert Trepidatio Publishing (July 23, 2021) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Having grown up on Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and related pastiches, I’m a sucker for stories of forlorn coastlines, desolate seascapes, and inhuman creatures...
KEENING COUNTRY Seán O’Connor Idolum Publishing (August 13, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen I was privileged to have received an advanced copy of Seán O’Connor’s first official collection of short stories entitled KEENING COUNTRY. What he can accomplish in the short form...
A MAZE FOR THE MINOTAUR And Other Strange Stories Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press, 2021) Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Actor, playwright, director, illustrator and award-winning writer of novels and short stories, British author Reggie Oliver is by far one of the very...