“Fans of Sammy’s work will find much to enjoy, here – as will any who appreciate the finer side of dark/genre art and illustration.” Hailing from South Africa, freelance illustrator Vincent Sammy is rapidly becoming the go-to guy for all things dark, apocalyptic, challenging and evocative. With this collection, The Damage Museum, Sammy’s work for …
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“Scott Nicolay’s The Croaker is another stunning reason why he is quickly becoming one of the strongest new voices in Weird and Cosmic Horror.” Haunted by painful memories, Michael meets with his first crush nearly thirty years after strange events changed him forever. Something happened when he and Donna visited the Tommy Croaker Memorial Park …
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“…the reader/listener not only gets a genuine sense of threat but also of man’s smallness in the grand scheme of things.” The Revenant is a slightly odd book which most people will know as the source material for the recent multi-Oscar winning movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s odd because it’s an ostensibly true tale written …
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“Noctuidae by Scott Nicolay cements him in the annals of contemporary Weird Fiction without the trappings of the forefathers of the genre.” Three hikers are exploring a canyon in Arizona. They are experienced, yet looking for experiences beyond the ordinary. Sue-Min, her lover Ron, and his obnoxious friend Paul — tagging along practically uninvited — …
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“Intriguing, entertaining and genuinely creepy.” Lovecraftian anthologies seem to be all the rage right now so inevitably publishers are having to come up with original twists of the format in order to stand out from the crowd. Crystal Lake Publishing’s spin is to assemble five of the finest purveyors of fantastical short stories and have …
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“Thoroughly original, thought-provoking, and lingering in the mind long after the last page is turned.” Horribly burned and disfigured, Alison is barely involved in life itself. By day, she hides behind closed doors in shame, unable to handle the stares, or the words people mutter under their breath… go away, Monstergirl. When she ventures out at …
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“A worthy addition to the increasingly long list of good Australian supernatural movies.” Backtrack is an Australian film from the screenwriter and director Michael Petroni, who created (amongst other things) the short-lived and underrated US TV series Miracles. The film stars former antichrist Sam Neill as the mentor to Oscar-winning piano player and giant ape …
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“Some of the best work by the author to date.” A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson collects some of his most powerful short fiction for the first time in one spectacular volume. The collection is one piece of four books recently released from Coffee House Press. The other three books, Last Days, Father of …
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“It’s fun to be a monster.” If there was one single quote that could sum up this collection, the quote above works quite nicely. Autumn Christian writes deliciously dark fiction like Philip K. Dick mixed with Steve Erickson, cranked up to eleven with a little LSD in the mix. Ecstatic Inferno, Christian’s short fiction collection, …
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“Like all great horror authors, Grant can generate terror from monstrous beings but also from human cruelty.” Taylor Grant is a professional screenwriter and film maker; The Dark at the End of the Tunnel is his first collection of prose fiction. In writing these stories, Grant has not left his cinematic roots behind, for these …
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