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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A show of hands: How many of you know what a psychomanteum is? If the word isn’t part of one’s vocabulary, it will be after reading Christopher Golden’s novel Dead Ringers. The narrative is filled with doppelgängers, occultists, ghosts, and ...

“I thought of myself as a work of art. I caused responses without being responsible for them. This is the great freedom of art.” The quote is from “Ashputtle,” a story written by Peter Straub, which is included in the ...