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Hiatus

Things are going to be pretty quiet on the blog for awhile, but hopefully there will be more reviews, interviews, and such later in the year. Fingers crossed. In the meantime, enjoy 2017 by reading a good book Or try writing something yourself if you feel compelled. Oh, maybe even, if opportunity should present itself ... punch a nazi in the face.


2017, y'all.

Good Angels, Better Beasts: an interview with Jerome Stueart, author of "The Angels of Our Better Beasts"

JEROME STUEART'S THE ANGELS OF OUR BETTER BEASTS - The Lemmings are really researching the Arctic biologists, the werewolves sing sweet Christian praise songs, and the signing gorilla just wants someone back in the cage for a minute or two. The Gryphon can fight your war for you, and there isn’t really a problem when the man you’ve been online dating turns out to be a bear, is there? No worries. Those old lions in the canyon aren’t up to something, are they? The doctors in the red coats...

The Phantom Bride of Marcellus: a guest post by Catherine Cavendish, author of "Linden Manor"

The Phantom Bride of Marcellus

My novella – Linden Manor – features the ghost of Lady Celia Fitzmichael, about whom a scary nursery rhyme was written. This has haunted my main character – Lesley Carpenter – since childhood. In it, Lady Celia is never mentioned by name. Instead, she is referred to as ‘The Scottish bride.’ And woe betide you if you laid eyes on her ‘blackened face’.Writing this story inspired me to go in search of allegedly true reported sightings and tales of tragic brides who...

The Rhodes Less Traveled: an interview with J. Kent Messum, author of "Husk"

From award-winning author J. Kent Messum, a serial killer thriller for fans of The Straw Men and The Shining Girls.


LIFE GOES ON

For a lucky few, death is merely an inconvenience. With the help of technology the mind can survive long after a body has been laid to rest. This afterlife, however, is far from paradise...

MAKING A LIVING

Rhodes is a 'Husk'. It's an illegal, controversial and highly lucrative job - renting out control of his body and mind to the highest bidder. It's a sure way to gain...

Dream a Little Dream: an interview with Oliver Langmead, author of "Metronome"

About METRONOME by Oliver Langmead:
'You and I, we wear our wounds. I wear my scars, you wear your tattoos, and we don't forget who we are.'

It is for the entities known as Sleepwalkers to cross the doors between dreams, and hunt the nightmares that haunt sleeping minds. Theirs is a world of impossible vistas, where reason is banished and only the imagination holds sway: the connected worlds that all sleeping minds inhabit, and the doors that lead between.

But tonight, one Sleepwalker has gone r...

Ten books published in 2016 still on my TBR pile that I REALLY need to read in 2017

While I did manage to put out a list of the books I read and enjoyed this past year, there are still so many books that came out in 2016 that are sitting on my to-be-read pile that could've just as easily wound up on that list had I read them.  One of these days I'm gonna learn to speed read, so I have half a chance of reading ALL of the books on my TBR pile.
So I thought I would make another list to give a shout-out to a few of the books sitting on my TBR pile that I really should've rea...

My First Year as a Published Author: a guest post + giveaway by John Quick, author of "Consequences"

John Quick has been reading and writing scary and disturbing stuff for as long as he can remember, and has only recently begun releasing some of his creations upon the world. He is the author of the novel  Consequences  and theshort story collection  Three Shots and a Chaser . His work has also appeared in the  Full Moon Slaughter  anthology from JEA Press. His second novel,  The Journal of Jeremy Todd  is due for release from Sinister Grin Press in the su...

Thirteen Books I Read and Enjoyed in 2016

I may not be the guy to look to for a definitive list of the best books from this year, mainly because I didn't read nearly as many as I had intended to, but I can at least come up with a list of a baker's dozen that I did read and enjoyed enough to recommend to my fellow genre mutts.

So here ya go. And have a MERRY MERRY and a HAPPY HAPPY!



Resume Speed by Lawrence Block - Maybe the best noir writer out there? Maybe? Yeah, probably. This novella about a new fella in town trying to make a f...

Movie Madness: an interview with Lucas Mangum, author of "Mania"

Maniafollows controversial filmmaker William Ward as he films an adaptation of a supposedly cursed screenplay. Though he doesn’t believe in curses, he’s happy to have the hype surrounding his newest movie. But as production begins, he soon learns that the curse is all too real and the vengeful ghost haunting the script is only a piece of the puzzle.
At its heart is a shadowy cult, manipulating events behind the scenes. As dark forces gather around him, Ward and his girlfriend Rachel try to fi...

Author Insights: Balancing a Series: a guest post by Thomas S. Flowers, author of "Conceiving"

Thomas S. Flowers is the published author of several character driven stories of dark fiction. He resides in Houston, Texas, with his wife and daughter. He is published with The Sinister Horror Company’s horror anthology The Black Room Manuscripts. His debut novel, Reinheit, is published with Shadow Work Publishing, along with The Incredible Zilch Von Whitsteinand ApocalypseMeow. His military/paranormal thriller series, The Subdue Books, Dwelling,Emergingand Conceiving, are published with Lim...