Category: Reviews

Book Review: Great British Horror 1: Green and Pleasant Land, edited by Steve Shaw

February 3, 2017
8 mins to read

“Great British Horror will, no doubt, be the standard for which all other annual anthologies will be measured against.” Horror seems to be in something of a small ascendancy at the moment, with writers all over the world gaining measures of recognition, readers, and accolades. Whilst much of this is occurring in the US, …

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Book Review: Conceiving by Thomas S. Flowers

February 1, 2017
4 mins to read

“Thomas S. Flowers delivers an old-school monster story that’s easy to jump on board.” Typically, the third book of a trilogy is laced with glossed-over characterizations and missing puzzle pieces that confuse and confound new readers, but with Conceiving, the third book in his Subdue series, author Thomas S. Flowers delivers an old-school monster story …

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Book Review: Little Heaven by Nick Cutter

January 25, 2017
4 mins to read

“Cutter’s latest novel might be one of the strangest and wildest reads of 2017.” In Little Heaven, Nick Cutter gives his readers an audacious 20th Century horror-western epic. Cutter’s latest novel might be one of the strangest and wildest reads of 2017. Micah Shughrue, Minerva Atwater, and “The Englishman” Eb Elkins are killers, and like …

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Book Review: Crow Shine by Alan Baxter

January 13, 2017
6 mins to read

“This is a strong short fiction debut from a real writer, and one well worth your time.” Australian author Alan Baxter has been carving out a name for himself in the dark fantasy field with his novels, most notably the Alex Caine series, so it’s a good time for Ticonderoga Publications to put together his …