I don’t think a story’s title could sum up its contents quite as precisely as this one. The darkness prevails throughout this tale and, by the time you finish reading, it will have probably ingrained itself upon your puny and… Read More ›
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Book Review – The Undertaker’s Daughter by John James Minster
This novella manages to merge mush and the macabre in equal measure. At times I was sticking my metaphorical fingers down my throat at love’s young dream, at others I was wincing with an ‘ewww’ face on. The titular character,… Read More ›
Book Review – Mastodon by Steve Stred
Steve Stred’s latest novel not only shares its name with a great band (the older stuff, anyway), it also very much lives up to the hype. I blazed through this book in no time, and found the climatic final scenes… Read More ›
Book Review – I Will Kill You by Halo Scot
Once upon a time, in the not so distant past, Halo Scot wowed me with the most excellent Rift Cycle series. If you haven’t checked these books out then you should stop immediately and involve yourself. Blood, gore, tension, humour,… Read More ›
Book Review – The Growth by Adam Hulse
I knew little about this book before diving in. OK, I knew it was horror, and I knew I thought the cover was pretty brutal. I bought this on the back of the author tweeting about it being on sale,… Read More ›
Book Review – The Future in the Sky by Steve Stred
I’m an occasional Sci-Fi’er. Usually there’s got to be some kind of horror element to it, but not always. We shouldn’t just stick to one genre now, should we? I may not have picked this up if I wasn’t a… Read More ›
Book Review – Your Favorite Darkness by Joe Zito
The last collection of stories I read by Joe Zito was the brutally awesome A Vulgar Display of Short Fiction. Within those pages were some of the most sordid, grotesque, and disturbing tales where trigger warnings were very much at… Read More ›
Book Review – Love and Other Dead Things by Astrid Addams
Astrid Addams has concocted a great collection of tales here that certainly reside on the darker side. As with most short story collections some are better than others, but I generally had a pretty good time with these. Things kick… Read More ›
Book Review – Soaking in Strange Hours by Erik Hofstatter
This extremely brief tale is dripping, or soaking, in lashings of descriptive prose and metaphor where more or less any sentence could be used as promotional material for the story. Before writing this review I read the story twice, just to… Read More ›
MORGAN K TANNER, Writer of Horror 