by Robert Morrish | Nov 9, 2011 | Reviews
I purchased a story from Michael McBride for Cemetery Dance, I wrote a very positive review of his novel Remains, and I’ve enjoyed several other works of his, most notably Bloodletting. So it’s probably no great surprise to learn that I found much to like in his...
by Robert Morrish | Nov 9, 2011 | Reviews
Like the taut belly-flesh of its eponymous creature, the plot of Ronald Malfi’s novella Skullbelly is downright skintight, weighing in at a lean, mean 135 pages. Seattle-based private investigator John Jeffers has been hired to determine what happened to three...
by Robert Morrish | Sep 28, 2011 | Reviews
Gary Fry’s The Abolisher of Roses is the second title from the UK chapbook publisher Spectral Press. Fry is known for his publishing and editing work (as a co-owner of Gray Friar Press) but also increasingly for his fiction, which includes the collection Sanity and...
by Robert Morrish | Sep 28, 2011 | Reviews
I’ve been a huge admirer of Laird Barron’s short fiction for a while now — among many highlights, “Old Virginia” is the creepiest story I’ve read in the last few years — and was thus very intrigued to see his first novel, The Light is the Darkness, come...
by Robert Morrish | Sep 28, 2011 | Reviews
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a title from Tartarus Press, the UK-based publisher of fine limited editions and winner of three World Fantasy Awards and a Stoker. My reintroduction to the press came in the form of the novel Frankenstein’s Prescription, by Tim...
