Blog Tour: Core Truths, Lisa Fox

Book Review: Core Truths, Lisa Fox Short Story Collection: Core Truths, Lisa Fox Blog Tour July 10, 2023   There exists a liminal space between fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Lisa Fox explores that space through 18 short stories in her collection, Core Truths. None of the stories are directly connected to each other, each […]

Book Review: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Book Review: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia Horror: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia   In the 1896 book The Island of Doctor Moreau, a shipwrecked man with a scientific education lands on an island populated by strange inhabitants which are part-human and part-animal. These hybrids are the creations of Doctor Moreau, […]

Book Review: The Bleeding, Johana Gustawsson

Book Review: The Bleeding, Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner   Mystery/Horror: The Bleeding, Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner Blog Tour September 23, 2022   I was a teenager when Mount St. Helens erupted. For months prior, scientists had warned that the volcano was returning to life. A swelling bulge showed where lava was […]

Blog Tour: Land of the Dead, Steven Hopstaken and Melissa Prusi

Book Review: Land of the Dead, Stoker’s Wilde Book 3, Steven Hopstaken and Melissa Prusi   Fantasy: Land of the Dead, Stoker’s Wilde Book 3, Steven Hopstaken and Melissa Prusi Blog Tour April 27, 2022   Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde are at it again. Or in this book, more Stoker than Wilde. Oscar Wilde […]

Blog Tour: The Way of the Worm, Ramsey Campbell

Book Review: The Way of the Worm, Three Births of Daoleth Book 3, Ramsey Campbell   Fiction/Horror:  The Way of the Worm, Three Births of Daoleth Book 3, Ramsey Campbell Blog Tour April 8, 2022   I may never again think of the number “three” without a chill. And I could go the rest of my life […]

Book Review: Dracul, Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker

Book Review: Dracul, Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker Fantasy/Horror: Dracul, Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker You know, I like sleeping. I like dreaming. I like pleasant dreams, with sunshine and laughing children and small animals gamboling about. Beaches are nice: warm sand and inviting waters with my wife at my side. Those are the kinds […]

Book Review: Forsaken, J.D. Barker

Book Review: Forsaken: Book One, The Shadow Cove Saga, J.D. Barker Fiction Horror: Forsaken: Book One, The Shadow Cove Saga, J.D. Barker   Indie published in 2014, J.D. Barker’s debut novel Forsaken exploded onto the literary stage. Nominated for the Bram Stoker award for best new novelist, Barker was invited by Stoker’s family to cowrite a prequel […]