Category: Reviews

Book Review: Quiet Places by Jasper Bark

November 10, 2017
3 mins to read

“Quiet Places is an adventurous novella from Jasper Bark and one that pays off, with its slower, quieter story allowing us to feel closer to the protagonist and all the more to suffer from the gut punch of its conclusion.” Quiet Places opens with a prologue that launches the reader head-first into a weird, unsettling …

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Book Review: Hasty for the Dark by Adam Nevill

November 6, 2017
6 mins to read

“These tales are dark, starkly violent, but also subtle and ambiguous, often at the same time.” Following 2016’s rather excellent collection Some Will Not Sleep, Adam Nevill returns with another output of his shorter fiction in the form of Hasty for the Dark. Once again published through the author’s own press, Ritual Limited, and matching …

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Book Review: Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors by Todd Keisling

October 20, 2017
5 mins to read

“Ugly Little Things is a soundtrack to darkness, hauntingly inviting and absolutely horrific.” A foreword by the talented Mercedes Murdock Yardley hails Keisling as secret treasure of the genre and sets the reader up to witness the true awesomeness contained within the pages of Ugly Little Things, a collection of some truly well written …

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Book Review: The Lairdbalor by Kathleen Kaufman

October 9, 2017
4 mins to read

“The Lairdbalor is a mythic, disturbing tale, full of folklore and nightmares, and with it Kathleen Kaufman has proved herself as an author to watch.” Author Kathleen Kaufman gives readers a horrific fantasy, journeying into childhood nightmares and anxieties, in her latest release, The Lairdbalor. Seven-year-old Jamie falls down a hill in Southern California …