Category: Book Reviews
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All the Fiends of Hell – by Adam Nevill – Book Review
The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the morning is no blessing. The handful of scattered survivors are confronted by blood-red skies and an infestation of predatory horrors that never originated on earth. An occupying force intent on erasing the remnants of animal life from the planet. Across…
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Dracula’s Guests – Vampire Anthology by Hellbound Books – Book Review
A century and a quarter ago, Bram Stoker unleashed the unbridled horror of Count Dracula upon the world. We can only wonder if he ever imagined the impact his creation would have on not only the horror world, but across the globe. Vampires have become a foremost staple of horror stories and have been represented…
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Meeting in the Devil’s House – by Richard Dansky – Book Review
A piratical rabbi who fights zombies. A man-eating Sasquatch in a top hat. An intrepid ghost hunter who dares meet the Devil on his own turf. These are some of the characters whose paths you’ll cross in A MEETING AT THE DEVIL’S HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES. Welcome to the imagination of Richard Dansky, where legends…
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The Flowering – by Alison Littlewood – Book Review
Dark bleatings, my beloved tribe! This week, we’re talking about another ‘Shadows’ collection from Black Shuck Books. Littlewood offers up 6 stories of peculiar fiction/horror, so let’s dive in to each one! The Zoetrope: A girl’s mother gives her a zoetrope, and it becomes an object that keeps them connected, even in impossible circumstances. A…
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Despatches – by Lee Murray – Book Review
Daily Star war correspondent Cassius Smythe is off to the Dardanelles to report on the Allied campaign. That is, if only the War Office will let him tell the truth. But after months in the trenches at Anzac Cove, Smythe learns that it isn’t just the Ottoman who wish to claim back the land, and…
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Twisted Branches – by Rachel Knightley – Book Review
Twisted Branches is a dark domestic noir on familial love, poisoned loyalty and how we knowingly and unknowingly mess up – and light up – each other’s lives. Artist and matriarch Effie clings to the house five generations of her family called home. But are its ghosts haunting her or is she summoning them? With…
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The Gateway in Apartment 8 – by Chisto Healy – Book Review
Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because it’s a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that don’t belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl she’s dating, and the quirky gay boy she met at a…
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Roads Less Travelled – Vol. 2 – by Rhys Hughes and Susan York – Book Review
Welcome to Volume 2 of Roads Less Travelled. This time around we’ve got the amazing, unusual, gloriously inventive Rhys Hughes, with a story that has been many years in the making. In addition, there’s a marvellously conceived and executed grand-guignol of a story from rising star Susan York. I’ve interviewed both authors, and their comments and…
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Architecture – by Paul Flewitt – Book Review
The homeless are being taken from the streets of the city; when she wakes in the morning to find herself painted red it sends Gabriel Travente on a journey to discover herself… There are ceremonies and rites which occur at various times in the world’s history, and they have the power to change the course…
