Black Feathers—Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology Ellen Datlow, ed. Pegasus February 7, 2017 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings I was excited to see the first notices of Ellen Datlow’s Black Feathers—Dark Avian Tales. Any Datlow anthology is usually well worth reading; the...
Primordial David Wood and Alan Baxter 2017 Cohesion Press Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Primordial, by David Wood and Alan Baxter, is a print version of the classic “Creature Feature,” outlining the search for a purported Nessie-like monster in an out-of-the-way...
I am Providence Nick Mamatas Nightshade Books August 2016 The Longest Con Michaelbrent Collings August 2016 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings This past week, I finished reading two novels based on Horror Conventions, Nick Mamatas’ I am Providence, and Michaelbrent...
Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of Murder and Whimsy Mercedes M. Yardley Crystal Lake Publishing 2016 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings The pedant in me—ever present and growing more powerful by the day—wants to say that praising Mercedes Yardley for her achievement...