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 and recreational) and booze, ideological servitude, cuckolding of men, and sexual fetishism.  For many of us, it’s a familiar scene: [...]

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 Rye, the debut novel by Gavin Gardiner and perhaps the heaviest thing I've read in quite some time. Renata is [...]

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. So begins The Haunting of Leigh Harker, the newest novel from prolific Australian author Darcy Coates. No stranger to hauntings [...]

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 generic but the Amazon title line is absurdly overlong and descriptive, plus the cover is nigh identical to hordes of [...]

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 his victims. There's only one problem-- there's no definitive proof that Emma was assaulted by the killer (and yes, big [...]

The newest novel from Grady Hendrix is here and it doesn't disappoint! The Final Girl Support Group is equal parts a deconstruction of and a love letter to slasher movies-- there have been a few stabs at the subject matter in recent years, but this is the one that gets it right for me. Hendrix [...]

While the title may call to mind  Idris Elba's monologue from Pacific Rim, there's a whole lot more to Luke Melia's new anthology, Apocalypse Cancelled, which seeks to expand on a simple but ingenious concept-- what if the world was scheduled to end, and then simply didn't? This multi-author collection takes place in a shared [...]