Smithy is the debut novel by Inkshares author and paranormal connoisseur Amanda Desiree. The novel is an epistolary record of an animal language acquisition study centered on the titular chimpanzee Smithy (or Webster, if you're feeling formal) and the students who are teaching him American Sign Language. The researchers and their ward have taken up [...]

It really sucks that zombies have been beaten back into the ground they rose from across the entirety of horror media for the last decade and a half or so. I'm sure there are legions of people who still adore shambling, rotting corpses, but at this point, it's really hard to ignore the oversaturation of [...]

Do you ever read something and know right away that it's going to be...shall we say...divisive? The first issue of Eisner-winning cartoonist Ed Piskor's new horror anthology series, Red Room, released this week through Fantagraphics Comics, and it's one of those releases that you're either going to love or hate-- I can't see many people [...]

The Valiant Comics series Shadowman returns with a new iteration to coincide with the release of Nightdive Studio's  Shadowman: Remastered, a revival of the enigmatic 1999 video game. This new entry into the Shadowman universe is written by Cullen Bunn of Harrow County and Venom fame with grisly art supplied by Jon Davis-Hunt. Shadowman #1 is [...]

If you, like me, haven't been paying as much attention to comics and graphic novels in the past few months, you may have missed out on Afterlift, a ComiXology Original by Sex Criminals and Daredevil alum Chip Zdarsky. Luckily, thanks to a very successful run and a slew of awards including the Eisner for Best [...]

Lord of Order is a neo-western set in a world destroyed and ruled by a fundamentalist Christian cult called The Crusade. This is the second novel by author Brett Riley, whose previous work includes screenplays and a paranormal mystery called Comanche. There's nothing supernatural this time around, but there's enough brutality and gore to keep [...]

Can you think of a more iconic American horror villain than Jason Voorhees? Released this past October by University Press of Mississippi to coincide with Friday the 13th’s 40th anniversary, Wickham Clayton’s See! Hear! Cut! Kill! Experiencing Friday the 13th provides readers with 238 pages of generous overview and detailed analysis on the popular horror franchise. [...]