by Robert Morrish | Aug 13, 2012 | Reviews
Bryon Morrigan’s Acheron, published by zombie specialist Permuted Press, benefits from an unusual milieu — it’s set in Iraq and literally starts with a bang when Captain Nathan Leathers’ small convoy is hit by an IED that leaves several members of the convoy...
by Robert Morrish | Aug 13, 2012 | Reviews
Shadow Publishing’s collection of Richard Davis’ short fiction, The Female of the Species And Other Terror Tales, is the type of book that I love to see from small presses — a gathering of never-before-collected tales by an overlooked writer from...
by Robert Morrish | Apr 17, 2012 | Reviews
“A curtain of gnarled skeleton oak and pine hides it from the rest of the world. The hotel is not well-lit, there is no sign, and night comes early here. The main highway bypassed its access road nearly half a century ago. From the air…the hotel appears to...
by Robert Morrish | Apr 17, 2012 | Reviews
When I reviewed James Cooper’s The Beautiful Red several months ago, I briefly lamented the fact that the stories contained in that collection were for the most part surreal in nature, while I preferred Cooper’s work that features more of a realistic bent. I’m happy...
by Robert Morrish | Nov 9, 2011 | Reviews
The Pan Book of Horror series ran for 30 volumes, between 1959 and 1989, with the first 25 installments edited by Herbert van Thal. The series was notable both for its emphasis on contes cruels (and some would say too strong of a reliance upon tales of outright...
