Category: Reviews

Book Review: Black Static, Issue 54

October 5, 2016
6 mins to read

“Very few other enterprises quite have as great handle on this aspect of horror writing as this periodical, and though there are the usual insightful columns, and reviews and interviews, it is the fiction which stands out in a publication full of highlights.” Horror is fast becoming a genre with very few set boundaries. It could …

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Book Review: The Awakening by Brett McBean

October 3, 2016
4 mins to read

“Able to hold its own with other great coming-of-age horror novels.” The Awakening by Brett McBean is one of those books that gives the truth to the old cliché about never judging a book by its cover. It is reminiscent of the covers that proliferated during the horror boom of the 1980s. However, this novel …

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Book Review: Eternal Frankenstein, edited by Ross E. Lockhart

September 28, 2016
6 mins to read

“These stories and characters are sewn together to create one hell of an exquisite monster.” Ross E. Lockhart and Word Horde have a reputation for putting out some wonderful anthologies, among those are The Book of Cthulhu and Giallo Fantastique. Eternal Frankenstein shines alongside them with an intensely dark and beautifully macabre mix of tales. …

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Book Review: Stranded by Bracken MacLeod

September 23, 2016
7 mins to read

“Readers will find themselves reeled in by the narrative, letting MacLeod’s hook sink in all the way as he drags them through the icy waters to his own vision of Hell.” The Arctic Promise has definitely seen better days. No bearings. No communications. Frigid cold and supplies are running low. The crew is ill …