The Employer: A Novelization by Frank Merle is a very different psychological thriller. The Carcharias Corporation is a company that people know very little about. Five people are interviewed by 'the Employer' for a job with no description and each one is thrilled to be...

The Other Side of the Door by Jill Vance is a curious collection of seventeen diverse and absorbing short stories. Some of these shorts have a paranormal aspect, while others are more along the lines of urban fiction. Still others represent a number of distinct...

Talking Walls and Cigarettes: And Other Dark Tales is a decidedly wicked horror short story collection by Erin Beck and Kelli Beck. For these dark tales, you'd better remember to read with the light on. One thing of note was that the entire book was...

If you can't tell from the title, Zombies Eat Big Girls Too by B.K. Walker is a tongue-in-cheek, funny take on the zombie apocalypse. Like every good zombie story, the book starts off on the day that the apocalypse hits the world. Stuff hits the...

After Darkness Falls: Volume 1 by Matt Drabble is yet another fine collection of bizarre and spine-tingling short horror stories. This is at least the third short story collection of Matt’s that I have read, and his talent and genius for composing good, solid horror...

Anyone picking up Ulrica Hume's latest book, House of Miracles, is in for a treat. The author chooses to focus on three major characters and interweave them through the lives of others, as well as the limitations of time and place. We meet Janet, an...

Squirrels & Puppies: Dark Morality Tales by Russell Mebane is a collection of short stories which introduces readers to a deep, dark, gut wrenching state of emotions. Themes include morality, sexual behavior, interracial concepts, relationships, religion, futuristic technology, and superior beings. This book is not...

Memes of Loss and Devotion by Darren White is an anthology of thrilling futuristic stories that reveals our strengths and failings, as well as challenges that we human beings have to face. Darren White’s deft writing style is perhaps one of the best I have...

Fear the Reaper by Joe Mynhardt is a delicious blend of short stories with one common thread running through them: they all include a close encounter with the old man himself, the Grim Reaper. Each author in this set was asked to produce a new,...

After the war to end all wars, there seems to be something brewing in Berlin. Why would a political party need a security force? The question lingers with Will Cotton, a once popular writer, who is barely getting by on fillers for women’s magazines. It...