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Shortwave Publishing

Review: Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy

April 2, 2025 by chilcottharry Leave a Comment

Rest Stop is like the best A24 movie in novella format, a story crying out for a screen adaption, and frankly, a super exciting literal edge-of-your-seat scream of a tale. I can’t wait to read more Nat Cassidy!

Filed Under: Fear For All, Psychological, Reviews, Slasher, Weird Tagged With: #FearForAll, Book Review, FanFiAddict, Horror, Horror Novellas, Nat Cassidy, Novella, Rest Stop, Review, Shortwave Publishing, When the Wolf Comes Home

Review: Cicada by Tanya Pell

February 22, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: “The modern day Goosebumps for adults.” –Horror Obsessive Ash is stranded at a rural horror film festival about a giant killer cicada and can’t decide what’s worse, the movie or her idiot boyfriend, until she realizes she’s starring in the bloody sequel when people start dying and the locals won’t let them leave. Review: […]

Filed Under: Creature Feature, Fear For All, Monsters, Reviews, Weird Tagged With: Cicada, Killer VHS, Killer VHS Series, shortwave, Shortwave books, Shortwave Publishing, Tanya Pell

Review: The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling

February 20, 2025 by Michael Hicks Leave a Comment

Synopsis “Todd Keisling is already a mainstay of modern horror, and this book proves why. A wildly original and unsettling tale, The Sundowner’s Dance is an unforgettable journey of grief, cosmic horror, and making the most of the time we’ve got left. Pick up a copy of this book immediately.” -Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Reluctant […]

Filed Under: Cosmic, Fear For All, Grief, Lovecraftian, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Horror, Shortwave Publishing, Todd Keisling

Review: Candy Cain Kills Again: The Second Slaying by Brian McAuley

December 5, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: She’s making a list… and chopping it twice! After surviving the horrors of Christmas Eve at the Thornton house, Austin, Mateo and Fiona head to the Church of Nodland to get some confessions from Pastor Wendell and his congregation. Little do they know that Candy Cain is coming to town to wish one and […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Religious Horror, Revenge Story, Reviews, Serial Killers, Slasher Tagged With: Brian McAuley, Candy Cain Kills, Candy Cain Kills Again, shortwave, Shortwave books, Shortwave Publishing

Review: Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley

December 4, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he’s less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this family on the rocks will have to fight for their lives against a legendary […]

Filed Under: Body Horror, Fear For All, Religious Horror, Reviews, Slasher Tagged With: Brian McAuley, Candy Cain Kills, Killer VHS Series, shortwave, Shortwave Publishing

Review: Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy

November 28, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by an unseen assailant, caught between the horrors on the other side of the door and the horrors rapidly skittering down the walls inside. Review: Grisly and absurd in more ways than a centipede has legs, “Rest […]

Filed Under: Bizarro, Body Horror, Fear For All, Psychological, Religious Horror, Reviews, Serial Killers, Weird Tagged With: Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop, shortwave, Shortwave books, Shortwave Publishing

REVIEW: Candy Cain Kills Again: The Second Slaying (Killer VHS Series #5) by Brian McAuley

September 25, 2024 by Seanchalant Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS She’s making a list… and chopping it twice! After surviving the horrors of Christmas Eve at the Thornton house, Austin, Mateo and Fiona head to the Church of Nodland to get some confessions from Pastor Wendell and his congregation. Little do they know that Candy Cain is coming to town to wish one and […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Religious Horror, Reviews, Slasher Tagged With: Book Review, Brian McAuley, Candy Cain Kills Again, Christmas, Horror, Killer VHS Series, Shortwave Publishing, Slasher, The Second Slaying

Review: Stay On The Line by Clay McLeod Chapman, with Illustrations by Trevor Henderson

September 12, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-of-service payphone in hopes of talking out their grief and saying goodbye to loved ones, only for it to begin ringing on its own. As more townspeople answer the call, friends and family believed to have been lost […]

Filed Under: Demons, Fear For All, Grief, Reviews Tagged With: Clay McLeod, Clay McLeod Chapman, shortwave, Shortwave books, Shortwave Publishing, Stay on the Line

REVIEW: When You Leave I Disappear by David Niall Wilson

July 3, 2024 by Seanchalant Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS USA Today bestselling author David Niall Wilson’s When You Leave I Disappear is a literary horror novella in which a bestselling author’s imposter syndrome draws her into a darker and darker world from which she may never escape. REVIEW And the Mindfuck of the Year Award goes to…..When You Leave I Disappear by David Niall Wilson! A […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Meta horror, Psychological, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, David Niall Wilson, Fear for all, Horror, Novella, Shortwave Publishing, When You Leave I Disappear

REVIEW: Face the Night by Alan Lastufka

June 20, 2024 by Seanchalant Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS She has an eerie gift for drawing faces. Will one terrifying vision tear apart everything she loves? Ohio, 1987. Adriana Krause hasn’t slept in weeks. Desperate for work to keep her three-year-old son out of her powerful father’s controlling clutches, her vivid illustrations land her a job as a police sketch artist. But the […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Ghosts, Paranormal, Reviews, Supernatural Tagged With: Alan Lastufka, Book Review, Face the Night, fearforall, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Book, Shortwave Publishing, Small Town

REVIEW: Cicada (Killer VHS Series #4) by Tanya Pell

June 18, 2024 by Seanchalant Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS Ash is stranded at a rural horror film festival about a giant killer cicada and can’t decide what’s worse, the movie or her idiot boyfriend, until she realizes she’s starring in the bloody sequel when people start dying and the locals won’t let them leave. REVIEW For the fourth time, the Killer VHS Series, […]

Filed Under: Anthology, Body Horror, Fear For All, Meta horror, Monsters, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Cicada, Found Footage, Horror, Killer VHS Series, Monster, Shortwave Publishing, Tanya Pell

REVIEW: Teleportasm (Killer VHS Series #3) by Joshua Millican

June 6, 2024 by Seanchalant Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS Four friends unearth a unique VHS tape that, when viewed, causes short-distance teleportation with euphoric after-effects, inadvertently launching a perilous trend. As copies of the original tape are made, the results become less predictable and ultimately gruesome due to analog generational decay. Despite the danger, some will risk everything for just one more trip. […]

Filed Under: Anthology, Body Horror, Cosmic, Fear For All, Lovecraftian, Monsters, Reviews, Sci-Fi Horror, Supernatural, Weird Tagged With: Body Horror, Book Review, Horror, Joshua Millican, Killer VHS Series, Sci-Fi Horror, Shortwave Publishing, Teleportasm

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