The Spare Room and Other Stories by brothers Joshua Danker-Dake and Sean Danker-Smith is an anthology of 26 original short stories across a variety of genres from fantasy to horror. The Gibbins Tree by Sean Danker-Smith is one of my favorites. It’s definitely on par...

The Nightingale Circus by Ioana Visan is a short story collection in the Broken People series. It tells the story of the fascinating members of the circus. We learn about their past, how they ended up at the circus and the work that they do,...

The advent of rail transformed mankind's opportunities to explore his world. Yet we are subconsciously aware of a dark side to this innovation that expresses itself in uneasy images, such as the stereotypical damsel tied to the railway lines and whispered tales of trains bound...

“The three o’ clock in the morning sessions” is described as a book on loss and unrequited love. However, several poems at the beginning paint love beautifully and are full of joy. Whether the tone is bittersweet is largely up to the reader’s interpretation. There...

Keith Gouveia takes every reader into a world where serial killers come together in a form of social media in The Snuff Syndicate. Instead of just one gruesome story about murder, this book offers readers several short stories combined into one. In The Snuff Syndicate,...

In The Mountain of Long Eyes: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Thomas Hamilton takes us to amazing places from the other side of the galaxy to our own backyard. There are stories of shamans battling terrorists in a decidedly Native American influenced story;...

Written by Andy Garner, The End of the Line is an anthology of short stories and a couple of poems. The stories are diverse, ranging from tragedy to humor, even children’s tales. The book includes a number of award winning pieces, including the prize winning...

“The Speed of Dark” is a horror anthology of short stories written by an assortment of authors, and published by Chase Enterprises Publishing. Editor Clayton Clifford Bye states in his Introduction that “horror” means many things to different people. It can mean an intense feeling...

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I began listening to this audio book but what I got was one of the funniest books I have ever listened to. I picked out my favorite short stories and shared them with my husband. He laughed out...

Fans of Jeffery Deaver will be thrilled with his latest offering “Triple Threat: 3 Original Short Stories.” Fans will be thrilled with the return of Kathryn Dance, a police officer with a special talent for reading body language, in 'Fast'. In this short story she...