When mutilated corpses start turning up around the quiet town of Logan, Missouri, locals suspect a bear. Sheriff Skip Harding knows better. He’s one of the few survivors of the monster that is slaughtering the inhabitants, but how can he stop a creature that’s more darkness than flesh? Fortunately, Cherokee game warden Jay Little Hawk… Continue reading Croata by Owl Goingback
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… Continue reading The Quiet Game by Rami Ungar
Millionaire playboy, and psychology professor at UC Berkeley, Roy Wallis, decides it would be fun to deprive two Australian backpackers of sleep for a couple of weeks and see what happens. He’s ably assisted by two graduate students; Penny Park, who thinks the project will enable her to finally seduce the professor, and Guru Rampal,… Continue reading The Sleep Experiment by Jeremy Bates
The first of a series of horror novellas published by Cemetery Gates Media and curated by Mother Horror (Sadie Hartmann), Stargazers starts the series with a bang. When people start acting strangely, military veteran Henry, his health care worker wife Judith, and their four year old daughter Penny, fight to survive in a frightening new… Continue reading ARC review: Stargazers by L.P Hernandez
Sometimes I wish books came with RiffTrax (or the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 treatment). This book would sure be a lot of fun to riff. Rich and his wife Kara are heading out to a cabin in the woods for a long weekend. 30 years ago, 8 year old Rich spent his last happy time… Continue reading The Thing in the Woods by Gary Frank
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