Graeme Davis is an editor who clearly likes women. More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror is dedicated to his wife: “who proves to me every day that women are amazing.” To put it simply, the ...
Read More »Book Review: Beneath (2017)
When I heard that Kristi DeMeester’s first novel Beneath had Southern Gothic leanings and a damnation of religion, I knew I had to read it. In the book, reporter Cora Mayburn is handed a brow-raising assignment: coverage of a fundamentalist ...
Read More »The Influence: A Retro Read
The Influence by genre master Ramsey Campbell falls into the sub-category of Horror in the Household. Weird Aunt Queenie reigns over her kin financially and psychologically. Her malevolent matriarchal superiority was established when her nieces Hermione and Alison were just ...
Read More »The Last Harvest (Book Review)
The Last Harvest (2017) by Kim Liggett, is published under the “Tor Teen” imprint of Tor Books. The narrative, which includes detailed depictions of sacrificial violence and a bovine massacre, makes one want to shout “Holy Cow!” Are today’s kids psychologically ...
Read More »The Terminal (Book Review)
Out now from Fresh Pulp Press, The Terminal is Amber Fallon’s first book — or rather, at 105 pages — her first novella. It’s about the unlikely protagonist Dirk Bradley, whose name, I must admit, reminds me of the name Dirk Diggler, ...
Read More »French Cinema and the Great War: Remembrance and Representation
In these last few particularly trying months — which have included Brexit and Trump winning the US presidential election — there seems to have been a desperate scramble to make comparisons between current events and historical tragedies. In a time ...
Read More »Retro Reviews: Harvest Home
Sheila Merritt’s Retro Reads reviews books from years past that continue to deserve attention and are still readily available to readers in some format. This time around, in conjunction with Diabolique’s collaborative project examining the American Gothic, here’s a look back at ...
Read More »Dead of Night (Book Review)
Dead of Night, the classic 1945 British film that epitomizes the horror anthology in cinema, is given an in-depth study courtesy of the Devil’s Advocates book series. Each volume in the series examines a particular movie within the genre. It is somewhat ...
Read More »The Ballad of Black Tom (Book review)
It is well known that iconic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was a racist. Last year, the World Fantasy Awards decided to cease having Lovecraft’s image on its trophy for that reason. Lovecraft died in 1937. Many who opposed the banishing ...
Read More »The I in Evil: Accepting and Embracing the Monster You Are (Book Review)
I’d like to preface this review by noting that while I’m sure there’s a beautifully designed jacket out there for Ken W. Hanley’s satirical self-help book The I in Evil: Accepting and Embracing the Monster You Are, I can only review ...
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