"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by John R. Little; Lisa Morton “If I was tried for murder, I’d just demand a jury of my peers. Every parent understands wanting to kill the miserable kids once in a while.” If you first experience Lisa Morton through the outstanding anthology Dark Delicacies, you'll see the book’s opening story by heavyweight Ray Bradbury... Continue Reading →
by Guy Endore "And thus was the silver bullet cast." There's a synopsis somewhere stating this book can be read in two different ways--from a supernatural angle or from a psychological one. While there are numerous examples of the supernatural, they're often downplayed while mental illness counterpoints. That being said, The Werewolf of Paris is... Continue Reading →
by Various Authors, Tim Pratt (Ed.) "I don’t think there was a nine-year-old that ever lived who would have been able to convince his father he’d seen the Devil come walking out of the woods in a black suit." -Stephen King In terms of average rating, anthologies have a significant challenge pulling off a high... Continue Reading →
by Michael McDowell “How children survive their parents,” sighed Sister, “is a thing I will never understand.” Blackwater is a sweeping, epic family drama with some horror and supernatural elements. While all 6 novels contain some of these elements, they’re mostly second fiddle to the drama with the possible exception of the sixth and final... Continue Reading →
by John Everson "I’m married to two incredible women – one dead and one alive. Is this bigamy?" Mr. Everson's first novel, Covenant, is so effective a combination of horror and erotica it can (and did) single-handedly usher a jaded reader back into the broader world of horror writing. Cage of Bones was read over a... Continue Reading →
by Joe Abercrombie "Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light." Tying together the threads of the adventures of all characters, good and bad (but mostly bad), The Last Argument of Kings is a bold masterpiece. The Bloody-Nine comes into his own as... Continue Reading →
by Joe Abercrombie “You had better stay out of sight for a couple of days.” “Out of sight? I don’t plan to see outside of a whorehouse for a week.” “Very wise.” The second novel in the First Law trilogy, Before They Are Hanged follows mainly two groups of companions through their ordeals as well as... Continue Reading →
by Clive Barker “She knew he was telling the truth, the kind of unsavory truth that only monsters were at liberty to tell.” I was speaking to a friend about the book yesterday, told him that this was where all the Hellraiser movies came from, and he naturally responded with, “Oh cool, so you get... Continue Reading →
by Tim Waggoner “You can’t have her. You don’t deserve her.” A short novella with a hell of a grip, the story takes place almost entirely on a canoe floating downstream as Alie and her sister Carin rush to preserve the life of a baby found alone on a sandbar upstream. Told in an economic... Continue Reading →
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