Silver Nitrate Silvia Moreno-Garcia Random House Worlds (July 18, 2023) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham Let me preface this review by saying that I really wanted to love this book. I began this book really wanting to love this book... but by the time I turned the last...

Only Monsters Remain William J. Donohue JournalStone Publishing (August 25, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Only Monsters Remain masterfully combines cosmic horror, deep character exploration, and the relentless drive of a post-apocalyptic narrative. Donahue’s...

LaundryLegs Rob Smales Weird House Press (March 20, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale Humans have never been able to answer the age-old question of whether God has a sense of humor, but readers know that Rob Smales does. LaundryLegs continues Smales’ tradition of...

Such Pretty Confusion: Nightmares from a Damaged Mind Peter N. Dudar Trepidatio Publishing (August 18, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Peter Dudar’s Such Pretty Confusion is a haunting and wide-ranging collection of dark fiction composed over the course of two decades...

Card Deck Review: Deep, Dark & Dangerous Oracle Stacey Demarco (Rockpool Publishing, October 13, 2022) Boxed set of 44 cards and guidebook Graphics by Kinga Britschgi, £17.99 Reviewed by Wendy Stokes The unknown and the Underworld feature in ancient myths and...

A Curious Cartography Alison Littlewood Black Shuck Books, 2023 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi A successful novelist and short story writer (winner of a Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction), Alison Littlewood is an eclectic author in the general area of speculative...

Wicked Sick: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers Kristi Petersen Schoonover and Scott Goudsward (eds.) Wicked Creative (May 4, 2023) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale The New England Horror Writers (NEHW) hit another one out of the park (Fenway, of course) with...

I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls Ben Farthing (August 1, 2023) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham Though the title may lead you to believe that this book is an airy, Muppet-like romp, it is as far from The Muppet Show as it is possible to get. This is a scary...

Azathoth: Ordo ab Chao Edited by Aaron J. French JournalStone Publishing (August 4, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Having read French’s previous edited Cthulhu Mythos collection, The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft, also for JournalStone, I was looking forward to seeing what...

Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising Victor A. Liaguno (ed.) Crystal Lake Publishing (June 21, 2023) Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Don’t let the rainbow fool you—it is a dark one. The rainbow is a reminder of highs and lows, of starting points and of falling back....

Gris-Gris Gumbo Rick Koster JournalStone Publishing (June 23, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Rick Koster offers us a treat: what happens when Crayton Breaux, a clerk at a tourist trap voodoo shop in New Orleans’ French Quarter, starts dabbling in voodoo and discovers...