Category: Reviews

Book Review: The Knife Dance by Michael Cisco

June 30, 2016
4 mins to read

“While unfamiliar readers may find the story complex and rather frustrating, fans of Cisco’s work will welcome this novella with open arms.” Charging on the scene in 1999 with his novel The Divinity Student, Michael Cisco has made quite a name for himself with the readers of weird and dark fiction. Describing his own work …

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Book Review: The Nameless Dark by T.E. Grau

June 29, 2016
6 mins to read

“Grau takes you down dark, horrific pathways, keeping you on the edge of your seat and reading until the final, petrifying sentence.” Weird fiction is enjoying something of a renaissance of late, possibly motivated by such authors as Simon Strantzas, Laird Barron, and Stephen Graham Jones, but perpetuated by newer faces on the scene such …

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Book Review: The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman

June 28, 2016
6 mins to read

“The Suicide Motor Club is Buehlman’s best work to date and one of the best vampire novels to come along since Salem’s Lot.” Vampires have long been a fascination among readers and authors alike, ranging from Stoker’s classic Dracula to Stephen King’s exemplary Salem’s Lot and stopping at all points in between with Anne Rice’s …

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Audiobook Review: Dracula, Audible Full Cast Version (2012)

June 24, 2016
5 mins to read

“Dracula as presented here is a fetid, creepy delight.” With so many adaptations of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel Dracula being released over the years, choosing one to read, watch or listen to can be a difficult choice. This Is Horror’s Simon Kurt Unsworth checks out just one of those adaptations as he looks back …