Quinn Matthews is a thirty-something lifestyle journalist with burgeoning psychic abilities. When she scores free tickets to a video shoot for popular Goth-rock band, Mad Love, she is thrilled. Her excitement is replaced by horror after a large piece of plaster falls from the stage...

Desecrated, the second book in The Saga of Ukumog, captured my interest instantly as author Louis Puster III focused on the immediate goal of the main characters within the first words. The tension that resonated at the end of book 1 between Wracked and Brin...

Scrooge and Marley by Karl F. Hollenbach is a follow-up story to Charles Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol. The book builds on the story of Ebenezer Scrooge who had made amends for his mean-spirited ways after an encounter with the ghost of his dead business...

Mark Sheridan’s life is taking a strange turn; three curiously related murders had taken place within twenty-four hours of each other, and both murder scenes had happened within close proximity to him. The strangeness only intensifies with the arrival of Sylvia Martin from London, a...

The Reach of Children by Tim Lebbon is uniquely unlike any of Lebbon’s other books that I have read. Not a horror story, The Reach of Children is a tragically poignant study of a preteen boy and his father as they try to cope with...

An ancient evil has reawakened in modern America and the heroes of the present must find a way to connect with the powers of different realms from the past to conquer it. A number of characters discover that they have a part to play in...

Maggie has lost her father, but is he really gone? That is the question in The Weeping Willow Sings by Billie Grable. With a history of mental illness and a rough experience in the Gulf War, John is never quite the same and his daughter,...

After Darkness Falls: Volume 2 by Matt Drabble is more proof – as if proof is needed – that Matt is a master of the short horror story. The ten tales in this collection offer a glimpse at the broad scope of Drabble’s imagination, as...

Beyond the Clearing by Robin Mahle is a mixture of horror and the supernatural. The story begins with Mrs Sylva arriving at The Serenity Resort to try to come to terms with her husband's death. One evening she walks through a clearing, towards the light....

Remnants of the Damned, the first book in the Abyssal Sanctuary series by Gavin Hetherington, takes place in a little eerie town called Lakefield View. Five friends and co-workers from Pandora Café are about to experience the worst 24 hours of their lives. It all...