Category: Reviews

Film Review: Backtrack (2015)

  • March 17, 2016

  • 4 mins to read

“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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Book Review: A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson

  • February 19, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

“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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Book Review: Ecstatic Inferno by Autumn Christian

  • February 16, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

“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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Book Review: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel by Taylor Grant

  • January 26, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

“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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