Category: Reviews

Book Review: The Soul Standard by Caleb J. Ross, Nik Korpon, Richard Thomas, and Axel Taiari

  • July 6, 2016

  • 6 mins to read

The Soul Standard cover

“These four brilliant authors have brought their collective genius together to paint this unflinchingly violent, oppressively bleak city with the adroitness of world class painters, drawing vivid images on your imagination in varying shades of gray and frequent splashes of red.” Shared world anthologies are rare in dark fiction, and when they do come along …

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Book Review: The Booking by Ramsey Campbell

  • July 5, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

The Booking by Ramsey Campbell

“ Prescribing to his own rule of ‘avoiding what’s been done to death’, The Booking shows Campbell in top form with a strange and creepy tale that lingers long after the last page is turned.” For over fifty years, British author Ramsey Campbell has been scaring readers with his strange and wholly original horror stories. …

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Book Review: Stolen Away by Kristin Dearborn

  • July 5, 2016

  • 6 mins to read

Stolen Away cover

“Dearborn is not afraid of the dark, nor does she flinch at shocking, brutal violence and her characters face plenty of it as they race to save Trisha’s missing son from the clutches of a demon.” Recently there have been a lot of novels published that could be thought of as action-horror fiction. Motorman, by …

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Book Review: Autumn Cthulhu, edited by Mike Davis

  • July 1, 2016

  • 5 mins to read
Autumn Cthulhu

“Though the autumn season theme is very subtle in some of the stories, the variety of cosmic terrors will linger on the mind long after the last page is turned.” The level of commitment Lovecraft eZine has to keeping the world of the Cthulhu Mythos thriving is a testament to the imagination of HP Lovecraft, …

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