Category: Reviews

Book Review: We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III

  • April 14, 2020

  • 5 mins to read

We Need To Do Something by Max Booth III

“Exceptional, fearless, and, much to our benefit, only getting better with every story.”   Fresh from “destroying” independent horror publishing with his last anthology (Tales from the Crust, 2019, co-edited with David James Keaton) and before the release of his forthcoming novel, Touch the Night, from Cemetery Dance, Max Booth III has surprised us with …

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Book Review: Arterial Bloom, Edited by Mercedes M. Yardley

  • March 18, 2020

  • 8 mins to read

Arterial Bloom, edited by Mercedes M. Yardley, cover by Todd Keisling

“Following on from Crystal Lake Publishing’s hugely successful Tales From The Lake series, Arterial Bloomwill sit proudly alongside those tomes and, undoubtedly, the best anthologies that 2020 has to offer.“   In the introduction by the ever-eloquent Linda D. Addison, the Stoker award-winning author and poet touches on the bravery in editor Mercedes M. Yardley’s …

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Book Review: The Dregs Trilogy by Chris Kelso

  • March 11, 2020

  • 7 mins to read

The Dregs Trilogy by Chris Kelso

“[Kelso] weaves threads of each individual character, their complex histories, the overarching nightmarish theme of Ultra-Realism and the horror of being human together to create a bleak work of nihilistic art.” Chris Kelso is a chameleon, literarily speaking. The young Scot has written fiction with wide-ranging genre tags, from bizarro to science fiction, horror to …

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Book Review: Everything Is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here by Michael Wehunt

  • January 15, 2020

  • 5 mins to read

Everything Is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here by Michael Wehunt -cover

“Thanks to the talent of a gifted storyteller, it is easy for the reader to relate to the main character’s journey, from her sheltered beginning to the final, difficult revelation.”   He has been writing and publishing short stories for almost a decade, to great critical acclaim as evidenced by the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award …

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