Can a Horror Story Break Your Heart?
There is a terrible price to be paid if you happen to be a human trapped in a horror story. Christopher, the narrator and protagonist of Christopher Zeischegg’s The Magician, spends most of the novel [...]
Cursed Images – Grisly and Enchanted
Cursed Images, Reuben Dendinger’s short story collection, finds the grisly, the enchanted, and the horrible lurking in the quotidian fabric of hipster existence – odd jobs and trust funds, roommates, art and artists, drugs (prescribed [...]
FOR RYE is a Pitch Black Descent into Madness
Renata Wakefield is moments from committing suicide when she receives the news that her mother has been gruesomely murdered in a way mirroring the work of prolific horror author Quentin C. Rye. So begins For [...]
THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER Distorts Settings and Perspectives
There's something in Leigh Harker's home. It lurks in the shadows of her bedroom watching her with round unblinking eyes, its booming footsteps filling the night air as it waits for Leigh to fall asleep. [...]
THE GUARDIAN OF MAGIC Is a Flawed but Promising Fantasy Debut
The Guardian of Magic is the first entry in author Andrew Sharp's Stone Magic Series. I'll admit I had a fair amount of trepidation going into this one for a few reasons: the title is [...]
THE PACKAGE Is Too Absurd For Its Own Good
The Package is a psychological thriller from Germany's premier thriller author, Sebastian Fitzek. The book follows Emma, the sole survivor of a serial killer deemed the hairdresser for his fixation on shaving the heads of [...]
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