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HORROR FICTION REVIEW: CROW SHINE BY ALAN BAXTER

6/12/2016

BY LAURA MAURO

atmospheric and engaging; the humid air and dark,
smoky bars are almost tangible in their evocation.

FICTION REVIEW CROW SHINE BY ALAN BAXTER

One of life's small pleasures is discovering a new author for the first time. How exactly I have managed to miss Alan Baxter's weighty back catalogue is a bit of a mystery to me, as to date he's had around 70 short stories published across a range of genres. I can only imagine that paring them down to 19 for his debut collection must have been a hell of a challenge.

UNSUNG HORRORS BY ERIC MCNAUGHTON

5/12/2016

By Joe X Young

Eric McNaughton keeps nostalgia in a cage.

For me it’s personal.

Memories. The man that is the boy who was. The cardboard oblong the colour of sun-parched earth contained another oblong of petrol blue, the combination of which was a key to other worlds.

The boy who was now owned a library card.

FICTION REVIEW: They Don’t Come Home Anymore BY T. E. GRAU

1/12/2016

BY TONY JONES

If you die out in the open, before you are ready,
they will find you and take you away”

‘They Don’t Come Home Anymore: a Novella’ continues the fine run of quality horror fiction currently being published by ‘This is Horror’ and Ted Grau’s debut release for them is a first rate companion piece to Josh Malerman’s ‘A House at the Bottom of a Lake’ which hit the shelves on Halloween. I stepped into this very entertaining novella deliberately blind, knowing nothing of the plot and am pleased to say I was enthralled until the very last page. Actually, I pretty much read this enticing little story in one sitting and late into the night. Did it take me where I was expecting it to take me? No, and that’s much of the fun of reading great dark fiction; the plot often weaves into unexpected areas.

HORROR FICTION REVIEW: OFF SEASON BY JACK KETCHUM

1/12/2016

by Tony Jones

"Who's the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum." – Stephen King

HORROR FICTION REVIEW OFF SEASON BY JACK KETCHUM

You have to love the often used Stephen King quote: "Who's the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum." Whenever Halloween, in particular, comes around ‘Horror Royalty’ such as King are often asked who their big favourites are, and we all know what an incredible student of the macabre King truly is…. Sure as fate when Halloween 2016 was upon us this superb quote resurfaced once again and this time I decided to take heed and check out Steve’s “scariest guy”.

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HORROR FICTION REVIEW: CROW SHINE BY ALAN BAXTER

UNSUNG HORRORS BY ERIC MCNAUGHTON

FICTION REVIEW: ​They Don’t Come Home Anymore BY T. E. GRAU

If you die out in the open, before you are ready,they will find you and take you away”

HORROR FICTION REVIEW: OFF SEASON BY JACK KETCHUM

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FICTION REVIEW: They Don’t Come Home Anymore BY T. E. GRAU

If you die out in the open, before you are ready,
they will find you and take you away”