The atmosphere The Anguished Earth creates is top notch, melding the horror tinged, Dark Age setting with the backdrop of an active outbreak of a deadly disease. As you follow a state appointed Justice on the trail of escaped child murderer, you feel the unsettling sensation of darkness lurking in every corner.
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Review: Devil’s Night: A Halloween Short Story by Richard Chizmar
Synopsis It all started on a wind-blown Friday night in October. It was the night before Halloween, the night we always called Wreck Night or Devil’s Night back when we were kids and Halloween was second in our hearts only to Christmas. At least the newspapers got that much right. The day, I mean. They […]
Review: Lost Lives (Get Lost #3) by Noah Chinn
Synopsis You can go your whole life in the Void without trouble ever finding you. Moss doesn’t have that kind of luck.First, there was the stowaway, the pirate, and a centuries-old mystery drifting through the void of space.Then, there was the robbery that became a rescue mission, and a race to escape the Silver Legion.Now, […]
Review: Your Beloved Remains by Quinn Connor
Synopsis As fascination turns to obsession, two women drag each other into an academic horror of forgery, murder, and rage, destined to be devoured by readers of Plain Bad Heroines and If We Were Villains. Archivist Celia Kiel has spent her life on the remote campus of Basin College in the Southern Ozarks. Once a jewel of women’s […]
Review: Happy Hour (Killer VHS #9) by Gemma Amor
HAPPY HOUR is a fantastic novella, one that perfectly captures a hectic part of recent British history, invoking such a strong sense of nostalgia.
Review: The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler
Synopsis: The dice roll. Darkness answers. House of Leaves meets Jumanji in this brilliantly original and twisted novel composed entirely of found documents, following an unwitting couple ensnared by a sinister tabletop role-playing game Cole and Lorraine playtest board games for some extra cash as they save up to buy a home. But after a […]
Review: Pictures of You by Josh Malerman
Synopsis A woman becomes the unknowing subject of an artist’s dangerous work in this intense Hitchcockian thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House.After a magical night out on the town with her boyfriend Jack, Emily wakes alone in a huge bed in a beautiful, well-lit room. But the pink ceiling, the mauve […]
Review: Puppet’s Banquet by Valkyrie Loughcrewe
Synopsis Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the “real” world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity. Of her husband, there is no trace…until weeks later, […]
Review: Crone by Keith Rosson
Crone is the best thing that Keith Rosson has written to date. I simply cannot recommend this book any more highly.
Review: Love Never Dies by Emma Cole
Synopsis: If Sinners and the 1999 cult classic The Mummy taught Emma Cole anything in the year she spent bingeing scary movies, it’s that we love to swoon, sweat, and scream. We seem to crave the uncanny and the transgressive. Emma would know: Her day job as a Harlequin book editor revolves around steamy stories […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 226: Road Stories with Stephen Graham Jones (Writing Masterclass)
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson & Greta Kelly as they delve into a writing masterclass on Road Stories with bestselling, award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. During the episode, Stephen puts the narrative into high gear, discussing what road stories are, modern road stories vs. their travel narrative predecessors, the “Americanization” of road stories, the shape of a journey along the road, catalysts for characters to leave home, the road as a vehicle for character arcs, the role of landscape/environment on the road, road story structure applied to different vehicles, pacing a road story, the vehicle itself as a character and more.
The Turbulent Appearance of Brise Collier (Folk with a Disregard for Convention #2) by Natalie Kelda
Synopsis Grief and despondency consumes every moment of Ellie’s waking hours. Or at least every moment that isn’t spent toiling away in the cramped and dark confines of an English coal mine at the turn of the nineteenth century. She doesn’t believe her dreadful existence can get any worse but then a firedamp explosion claims […]