Bob Pastorella

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Done to Death: Five Horror Clichés to Avoid in Your Fiction

  • September 16, 2020

  • 8 mins to read

Author Tim Waggoner

Writers are often told to write what we know, which isn’t bad advice, necessarily. But one of the things we know are other stories, and when we first start out, we imitate the stories we’ve read and admired—whether consciously or not—and in the process often end up repeating what’s been done before. Shared ideas, character …

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Look Out For … Helena by Claire L. Smith

  • September 10, 2020

  • 3 mins to read

Helena by Claire L. Smith - cover

“This novella, both historical and relevant to current times, combines the ghostly with the very real horror of a rampant serial killer, just in time for the creepy Halloween season.” Near London in 1855, Helena Morrigan is tormented by poverty and the burdens of her past. A mortician and funeral director, she resides in an …

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Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

  • September 9, 2020

  • 7 mins to read

Crossroads by Laurel Hightower - final cover

Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower “Hightower strikes the perfect balance between horror and drama, sadness and hope, in this tale of tragedy and the purest love.”   It has been a busy couple of years for author Laurel Hightower since the publication of first novel Whispers in the Dark (Journalstone, 2018). Not only has …

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Look Out For … Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

  • September 3, 2020

  • 3 mins to read

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark - cover

“With his latest novella, Clark takes a page from our darkest history, cranks it up to Hell on Earth, and maintains a great sense of relevancy of the world we live in now.”  It’s 1915. The film The Birth of a Nation has cast its deadly spell over America. The Klan’s ranks swell from the darkest …

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