Category: Reviews

Book Review: Shadows and Tall Trees, Vol. 7, edited by Michael Kelly

June 20, 2017
7 mins to read

“A good mix of established names and relative newcomers, Shadows and Tall Trees Vol.7 is a fine showcase for some of the very best in Weird fiction.” It’s safe to say that, at the moment, horror writing is in something of a golden age; if not necessarily in terms of sales, then certainly in terms …

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Book Review: Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman

June 19, 2017
6 mins to read

“Mixes music and horror in a way that is thoroughly original and devilishly compelling.” Philip Tonka is a broken man. Every bone in his body, broken. Yet, he survived, and is healing faster than anyone anticipated. Tonka was exposed to a sound capable of crushing a man, and rendering weapons useless. Flipping back and forth …

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Book Review: The Changeling by Victor LaValle

June 12, 2017
4 mins to read

“Filled with compelling wonder and deeply-disturbing horror, The Changeling is an extraordinary novel.” In his follow up to his 2016 novella, The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle writes a beautiful, emotional, and terrifying fairy tale in The Changeling. Apollo Kagwe is a “book man”, searching estate sales and dark basement corners for rare …

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Book Review: Palladium at Night by Christopher Slatsky

June 9, 2017
5 mins to read

“Slatsky has produced a genuinely disturbing story complete with great characterisation, a creepy setting and unsettling ties to real-life mysteries.” Christopher Slatsky is a weird horror fiction author living in L.A. whose debut collection, Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales (Dynatox Ministries, 2015), was universally praised by fellow horror authors such as Adam Nevill, Michael Wehunt, …