Bob Pastorella

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Book Review: Great British Horror 1: Green and Pleasant Land, edited by Steve Shaw

  • February 3, 2017

  • 8 mins to read

Great British Horror, vol 1: Green and Plesant Land - cover

  “Great British Horror will, no doubt, be the standard for which all other annual anthologies will be measured against.” Horror seems to be in something of a small ascendancy at the moment, with writers all over the world gaining measures of recognition, readers, and accolades. Whilst much of this is occurring in the US, …

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Midnight Mix-Tape: February 2017- When the Women Come Out to Dance

  • February 2, 2017

  • 5 mins to read

Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow - cover

  Uncle Jake’s here to hook you up with some of the latest and greatest horror short stories available online right now. Stories that will challenge, evolve, and redefine what horror is, and what it will become. These are themed mix-tapes of fear, dread, danger, and gore, lovingly curated just for your reading pleasure. February …

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Book Review: Conceiving by Thomas S. Flowers

  • February 1, 2017

  • 4 mins to read

Conceiving -Thomas S Flowers - cover

“Thomas S. Flowers delivers an old-school monster story that’s easy to jump on board.” Typically, the third book of a trilogy is laced with glossed-over characterizations and missing puzzle pieces that confuse and confound new readers, but with Conceiving, the third book in his Subdue series, author Thomas S. Flowers delivers an old-school monster story …

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Book Review: Little Heaven by Nick Cutter

  • January 25, 2017

  • 4 mins to read

Little Heaven by Nick Cutter - cover

“Cutter’s latest novel might be one of the strangest and wildest reads of 2017.” In Little Heaven, Nick Cutter gives his readers an audacious 20th Century horror-western epic. Cutter’s latest novel might be one of the strangest and wildest reads of 2017. Micah Shughrue, Minerva Atwater, and “The Englishman” Eb Elkins are killers, and like …

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