Book Review: A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson

“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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TIH 080: V. H. Leslie on Writing Residencies, The Benefits of Writers’ Retreats and Writing Routine

TIH 080 V. H. Leslie on Writing Residencies, The Benefits of Writer's Retreats and Writing Routine

In this podcast V. H. Leslie talks about writing retreats, gender, writing routine and much more.  About V. H. Leslie V. H. Leslie’s first book, Skein and Bone, a collection of strange and supernatural tales, was released by Undertow Publications in July 2015. V. H. Leslie’s stories have appeared in a range of speculative publications, including Black …

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Look Out For… Ecstatic Inferno by Autumn Christian and Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air by Eric Schaller

Look Out For… Ecstatic Inferno by Autumn Christian “Reality in Ecstatic Inferno is malleable, with the ghost of Philip K. Dick never far away.” WARNING: THIS BOOK IS A PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE. From the moment you start to turn the pages, it will soak into your central nervous system, subtly and subversively reprogramming you at the DNA level. Each of …

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Book Review: Ecstatic Inferno by Autumn Christian

“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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