Synopsis In the city of Queen Mab, nothing is quite as it seems. Pariah, spy and Inquisitorial agent Alizebeth Bequin is all of these things and yet none of them. An enigma, even to herself, she is caught between Inquisitors Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor, former allies now enemies who are playing a shadow game […]
Horror
Review: Carry Me To My Grave by Christopher Golden
Synopsis From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden comes a high concept horror novel about a man trying to protect his dead mother’s body from the evil that is hunting them.Maggie Wise will take your eyes. When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother, claiming she was a witch. […]
Review: Alicia is in the Basement by Santiago Eximeno (translated by Alicia L. Alonso)
Gone Girl… Synopsis One summer afternoon, Santi and Maria’s daughter disappears from a public park without a trace. After months of agony and fruitless investigation that only serves to tear his life even further apart, Santi learns of a being that unleashes an entirely new kind of horror on the young family’s life: “He Who […]
Review: Dopefoot by Joshua Millican
Synopsis When a college drop-out accepts work on a cannabis farm in the woods of Northern California, he realizes almost immediately that the harsh realities of this life won’t match his naïve fantasies. He’ll have to work hard-and watch his back. Dubbed “Harmless” by his cultish cohorts, the young man learns the logistics of cultivation […]
Review: Traps & Specters by Philip Fracassi
I knew I was going to get a bunch of well written horror stories, but I wasn’t ready for how many – if not all – of them turned out to be nasty, biting, sharp tales that really pull no punches
The Other (The Outsiders Sequence #2) by Annie Neugebauer
The Other, the next novella in The Outsiders Sequence from Annie Neugebauer, is even more electrifying than the first!
Review: Love Shots by Travis M. Riddle
Synopsis They’re dying for a chance at love. America’s #1 dating show, Love Shots, gathers young, sexy singles in a tropical villa to compete in cheeky challenges, find love, and win a huge cash prize—with no small amount of drama. Things go off-script when a recently ejected competitor reappears in the villa. But she isn’t the […]
Review: Wellspring by Douglas Wynne
Synopsis When they were young they dreamed of finding the source of their favorite band’s inspiration. Now they can only pray it doesn’t find them. In 1973, at the peak of their stratospheric fame, the members of the classic rock band Bad Mother posed for an iconic photo gathered around an old stone well in […]
Author Interview: Alethea Lyons
Alethea Lyons (ze/she) is a queer writer of various types of SFF, including the Seer of York series published by Brigids Gate Press, and a number of short fiction works published by Eerie River Publishing, Bag of Bones Press, and others. She’s also the British Fantasy Society Event Coordinator for Greater Manchester. She live in […]
Review: The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean
Synopsis: From the USA Today bestselling author of The Book Eaters comes The Girl with a Thousand Faces, a Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive. When Mercy Chan washed up on the shores […]
Review: Molka by Monika Kim
Synopsis From the award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part, praised by The New York Times Book Review as “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original,” a provocative journey into a perilous world of voyeurism, scandal, female rage, and vengeance . . . pursued with a very sharp kitchen knife. Molka: an abbreviation of molrae-kamera, a “sneaky camera” […]
Review: Neon Moon by Grace R. Reynolds
Rootin’ tootin’, screamin’ dyin’ Synopsis Darlene Boone is a survivor. For more than a year, she’s been bartending at the famous Teegarden Saloon, a honky tonk in the Texas Hill Country, while attempting to put her life back together in the wake of an abusive past. But when an axe-wielding maniac descends on The Teegarden […]