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Book Review: The Siren and the Specter by Jonathan Janz

Title: The Siren and the Specter Author: Jonathan Janz Publisher: Flame Tree Press Page Count: 304 Pages Publication Date/Year: 2018 Genre: Horror Jonathan Janz is one of the more prominent horror writers to emerge over the last half decade or so. His name has been floating around social media as…

Book Review: Come Closer by Sara Gran

Title: Come Closer Author: Sara Gran Publisher: Soho Press Page Count: 166 Pages Publication Date/Year: 2003 Genre: Horror Possession. One of the more rife subjects explored in horror novels. Sara Gran’s Come Closer takes a powerful approach to examine how easily such a possession can destroy a person. Amanda and…

Book Review: The Winter People (Audio Book) by Jennifer McMahon / Women in Horror Month

Title: The Winter People Author: Jennifer McMahon Publisher: Audible Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Kathe Mazur Lenth: 10 hrs and 45 min Publication Date/Year: 2014 Genre: Horror Jennifer McMahon is a best-selling writer of suspense novels, some of which easily fall into the horror genre, like this particular novel, The…

Book Review: The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn / Women in Horror Month

Title: The Bird Eater Author: Ania Ahlborn Publisher: 47 North Page Count: 267 Pages Publication Date/Year: 2014 Genre: Horror Over the past few years, I’ve come to be a fan of Ania Ahlborn’s horror novels. Some are flat out horror stories featuring ghosts and demonic children, others feature serial killer…

Book Review: The Return (Audio Book) by Rachel Harrison / Women in Horror Month

Title: The Return Author: Rachel Harrison Publisher: Audible/Berkeley Page Count: 304 Pages / 9 Hours, 34 Minutes Publication Date/Year: 2020 Narrator: Sara Scott Genre: Horror Rachel Harrison’s debut novel, The Return, has been on my radar, probably since it published a couple of years ago. Three friends are surprised when…

Book Review: HIDE by Kiersten White

Title: Hide Author: Kiersten White Publisher: Del Rey Books Page Count: 256 Pages Publication Date/Year: 2022 Genre: Horror We all played Hide and Go Seek when we were kids, right? How many of us played in an amusement park, let alone an abandoned and closed amusement park? Probably very few…

The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock – Definitive Edition from Saga Press

Michael Moorcock is one of the towering giants of Speculative Fiction, he’s been writing and publishing stories and novels since the 1950s, both of his own creation and as an editor. His most famous creation, Elric of Melniboné first appeared in a story called “The Dreaming City” in 1961. Since…

The Completist: Duncan M. Hamilton’s Dragonslayer Trilogy

I’ve decided to resurrect one of my old columns, at least for this particular post. The column in question: The Completist from the sadly closed SFSignal (still available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine). As I said almost a decade ago: I’ve read a lot of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror…

Book Review: Son of the Poison Rose by Jonathan Maberry

Title: Son of the Poison Rose Author: Jonathan Maberry Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Page Count: 687 Pages (including appendix/glossary) Publication Date/Year: January 2023 Genre: Epic Fantasy / Epic Horror / Grimdark I was a big fan of Jonathan Maberry’s first foray into Epic Fantasy last year, Kagen the Damned; which…

In Search of Darkness: 1980s Horror Documentary Trilogy

I’ve been a horror fan for years, I cut my reading teeth on Stephen King, just as many “children of the 80s” did, as well as early Dean Koontz and Robert R. McCammon. I sort of skipped all the Goosebumps and Christopher Pike books, I was already on King early…