"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
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 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 →
by Cherie Priest “And if there are gods after all, perhaps we should not struggle so hard to get their attention, if this is the attention they would lavish upon us.” The Lizzie Borden murders shocked the world, and now we get the real scoop on what happened. Yes, madness was present, and yes, as... Continue Reading →
by Unknown “Inform, repleat, instruct, restore, correct, and refine me, that I may be made new in the understanding of thy Precepts, and in receiving the Sciences which are profitable for my Soul and Body, and for all faithful believers in the Name which is blessed forever, world without end.” Edited by Joseph H. Peterson... Continue Reading →
by H.P. Lovecraft “. . . do not calle up That which you can not put downe” Dependent upon your specific definition, this is the only novel written by Lovecraft. His other works of some length beyond short stories do not reach the word count of this tale and are generally considered novellas. Charles Ward,... Continue Reading →
by Clive Barker "This was my father you just murdered!" "Yes. I see the resemblance." Originally published as 6 very short short stories, Tortured Souls was written to back up a line of 6 toys Barker released. These backstories helped fill out the characters of his toys and work together surprisingly well considering their origins.... Continue Reading →
by Thomas Cranham “Because outside the walls the monster (no dragon but pain) had arrived and it struck the barrier with tooth and claw, fire and fist, and little Emily’s defender, her knight was nowhere to be seen.” Consisting of six dark tales and a novella and written by one of the CD forum’s very... Continue Reading →
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