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Book Review: The Quiet Game by Rami Ungar
These five tales to chill your bones mightn’t be quite as dark as the Master of Fear’s more recent work, but they’re highly entertaining and a great way to spend an hour. Addict opens the collection with an interesting second person point of view take on addiction. The focus is sex addiction, and a main…
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Book Review: The Spooks by Dan Soule
This collection of 17 super short stories is sure to delight children with its mixture of fun, silly, gross and thoughtful horror. Aimed for the reluctant reader, each story is flash length and written simply, to encourage interest in the written word. A great primer of sorts to whet the appetite of the young horror…
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Book Review: Myths and Megaliths by Catherine McCarthy
I’m a fan of Catherine McCarthy’s writing. I love the blend of haunting, lyrical horror and grounded, relatable characters that fill her writing. The ten short stories contained in this collection are some of her best work to date. Each one is skillfully written, conjuring worlds both mundane and magical in the reader’s mind. Several…
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Book Review: White Noise by Rhonda Parrish
A collection of zombie poems – incredible – and it’s even better than it sounds! This slim volume comprises twenty poems, all themed around zombies. The poems are diverse in their scope. Some are like a complete zombie story in a few words. Poems such as Slippery When Wet, Maybe Not, The Hardest Promise I…
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Book Review: Waste Not by Rhonda Parrish
Zombie stories don’t get much better than this, with Rhonda Parrish’s three funny takes on the genre. Waste Not is the most familiar zombie story of the book, with a family trying to survive on their homestead. I loved the characters, and the ending was good, creepy fun. Feeders is a view of the zombie…
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Book Review: The Other Side of the Door by Rhonda Parrish
I love the anthologies Rhonda Parrish edits, but it’s nice to read her own short stories for a change in The Other Side of the Door. This collection of four ghost stories and a spooky poem kicks off with the titular The Other Side of the Door, which is a moving depiction of a child…
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Book Review: Deep Roots by Beth Cato
A welcome return to the same world, and some of the same characters, of The Clockwork Dagger duology with two short stories and a novella in this slim volume. The Deepest Poison opens the book with a story of Octavia Leander working as a matron in the war between Caskentia and the Wasters. The title…
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Book Tour: Disturbing Works Volume 2 by John Richter
About the book Another compendium of delightfully macabre stories by Jon Richter, author of Deadly Burial and Never Rest. Jon’s first short fiction collection was described as ‘Black Mirror meets Tales Of The Unexpected’, and here he brings you another chilling assortment of twisted tales encompassing killer creatures, terrifying technology, and scientific experiments gone horribly…
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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…
