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Book Review: Forest Underground by Lydian Faust
A doctor hoping to make her name, and a patient who might not be human. Let’s journey together to the Forest Underground. After an apparent suicide attempt, Luna is admitted to Dr Sizemore’s experimental treatment facility. Kept isolated from the other patients, and subjected to odd scenarios during her therapy sessions, Luna slowly reveals details…
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Book Review: The Cat in the Wall by Heather Nanni
A collection of dark and twisted tales of women in strange situations. The Cat in the Wall starts off this collection of six very short stories; a flash piece about a woman whose mother starts hallucinating. Next comes Hive, broaching the subject of infidelity. After that comes The White Rabbit, and one woman’s symbol of…
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Book Review: Door and Other Twisted Tales by Catherine McCarthy
Whether it’s a character in Neil Gaimen’s “Neverwhere“, or Issac Asimov’s glimpse into a possible future, doors are fascinating portals into unknown worlds. That is what this collection of dark short stories is all about. What if our world was full of portals to other dimensions, and beings have been using them to enter our…
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Book Review: Widow by Rob Bliss
A literary retelling of the three little pigs, “Widow” is not your childhood fairy-tale. Joan, and her little boy, Joseph, move to the city after the death of her pig farmer husband. However, after a monstrous force destroys her house of bricks, the mother and son find themselves in the woods looking for a new…
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Book Review: Over a God’s Dead Body by Joel Spriggs
Joel Spriggs’ debut novel contains a detailed magic system to rival his Hemlock & Burns books, as well as a mixed pantheon of gods and an obsession with genitalia. Starting as it means to go on, “Over a God’s Dead Body” opens with an intimate moment between a professor and a Sasquatch, before introducing us…
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Book Review: Tales from the Riverside by Larry Landgraf
Ellen, the author’s girlfriend, perfectly describes “Tales from the Riverside” in this quote: “This is a guy who walks through the zoo, pointing to all kinds of critters, saying ‘THAT’S good eatin’”. “Tales from the Riverside” is a collection of stories about the author’s life growing up, working on and living in a swamp on…
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Book Review: Sangre: The Wrong Side of Tomorrow by Carlos Colon
Thirty years ago he was Nicky Negrón, husband and father, but after an encounter with a dangerous woman, he became one of the undead, and now lives as Jorge Sangria, vampire. The book starts after the events of the first book, “Sangre: The Color of Dying“, where Jorge and his vampire acquaintance, Travis, have just…
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Book Review: Crooked Souls by Jacob Klop
16 tales of horror that are sure to entertain and thrill. The collection starts with a nurse who has an unhappy reunion with her patients, and ends with a schoolgirl researching unicorns, who is disappointed with what she finds. Other stories feature food addicts, memory eaters, witches, unusual exams, vampires in original forms, demons and…
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Book Review: Blood Drops by WB Welch
18 small bites of horror that cover topics such as suicide, underage sex and serial killer protégés. This is a collection of very short horror stories, or flash fiction. A lot of the stories feature sex, there are original takes on familiar creatures and every tale leaves you wanting more. WB Welch’s writing is polished…
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Book Review: Another Dead Intern by Joel Spriggs
Do you love urban fantasy, private detectives and mismatched duos? If so, you won’t want to miss out on “Another Dead Intern” by Joel Spriggs. Hemlock Connal, daughter to the fae Fand, queen of the Shadow Court, has been stripped of her sidhe powers and banished to the human realm, where she inherited her father’s…