I’m a sucker for cults; reading or watching about them, of course, not actually joining them. Not yet anyway. Add to my cult-loving another SSS! release that deals with this subject matter, I just had to get involved. Jim is… Read More ›
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Book Review – Autotomy Cocktail by Zachary Ashford
I’m not going to start this review with the inevitable ‘These SSS! releases keep getting better and better’ blah blah blah. Oh dear. Scrap that idea then! Wow, this was one crazy ride. If you need convincing then let me just give… Read More ›
Book Review – Unbecoming Me & Other Interruptions by Christopher Stanley
Christopher Stanley’s little collection of shorties is everything you’d expect. Super dark stories that draw you in, making you hope for the best but knowing that happy ending just isn’t coming. There are three bite-sized doses of horror here, and… Read More ›
Book Review – Gods of the Dark Web by Lucas Mangum
I’d had this book on my wish list on a certain website for quite a while. And then Christmas came along and I got a shiny book-shaped present that contained this gory specimen. Things were looking up. The story jumps… Read More ›
Dante’s Inferno; Where’s all the Gore??
I’m not really sure what I expected from this. Dante’s The Divine Comedy is one of those books that we’ve all heard of, many of the themes and scenes making their way into the arts and popular culture to this… Read More ›
Book Review – The Bone Factory by Yolanda Sfetsos
Welcome to the city of Lorn. This shortish tale thrusts you right into this dystopian setting, never in elaborate over-explaining detail, but enough to make you feel the grime and taste the corruption. And what would be right at home… Read More ›
Book Review – Helminth by S. Alessandro Martinez
I knew kind of a little about the premise of this story before diving in. A haunted house tale, right? Well, no. On the surface you’d be forgiven for thinking this – four friends getting away from it all to… Read More ›
Book Review – Darkness Calls by D.T. Griffith
Wow, this is a story that certainly lives up to its name. Darkness Calls, it really does. You know what you’re getting with a Short Sharp Shocks! release and this one is as good as any in the ever-increasing collection…. Read More ›
Book Review – Lets Go Play at The Adams’ by Mendal W. Johnson
I’ve had this book on my radar for ages, from back in the days when a paperback copy cost something like three million quid or something to buy! But things are different now, so I just finished my nice shiny… Read More ›