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Book Review: Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology edited by Ellen Datlow

  • February 8, 2017

  • 12 mins to read

Black Feathers - Ellen Datlow - cover

“With this anthology, Datlow has further cemented her reputation as an editor with an eye for quality and her finger on the pulse of the horror genre.”   If you ask most horror authors of any sub-genre which editor they would most like to work with, the name “Ellen Datlow” is almost always top of …

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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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