Category: Reviews

Book Review: Grind Your Bones to Dust by Nicholas Day

October 30, 2019
8 mins to read

“The perfect blend of character, voice and setting, Grind Your Bones to Dust is cause for celebration. As is an author whose tremendous ability as a storyteller is only growing with every publication.” Nominated for both a This Is Horror Award and a Wonderland Award, Nicholas Day has produced work that is either bizarro, or horror, …

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Book Review: Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts by S. L. Edwards

October 16, 2019
8 mins to read

“…there’s much to recommend here, and it certainly marks Edwards as a name to watch in future. He clearly has a fertile imagination and the chops to carry his visions through to completion.” In the past, collections tended to be something an author wold release only once they had become something of an established …

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Book Review: Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro

October 9, 2019
8 mins to read

“Assured, controlled, poetic and artistic but also grounded in recognisable realities—even while imbued with the fantastic—these stories are remarkable enough individually.” Back again with another fantastic release from Undertow Publications, and this time it’s the debut collection of Laura Mauro. For those not in the know, Laura has been writing/publishing professionally since about 2012. Her …

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Book Review: Pareidolia, edited by James Everington and Dan Howarth

October 2, 2019
7 mins to read

“Quiet, literary, and emotional throughout, these stories are varied and creative. Each contributor has taken the theme and ran with it, and in doing so, they show us horror can be found in just about any place and situation.” Towards the end of 2017, Imposter Syndrome, one of the more impressive horror anthologies, was …