Rating: 4 out of 5 Ronald Kelly’s The Halloween Store and Other Tales of All Hallows’ Eve is a collection of seven stories (plus an essay). As you might guess from the title, they all have to do with Halloween…
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Review: “Dead Awake,” ed. by Stanley Wiater
Rating: 4 out of 5 Dead Awake: 12 Tales of Darkness contains–you guessed it–12 short horror stories by a bunch of excellent authors. Sisters of Slaughter bring us “To Burn the Black Church.” It’s a brief exploration of an evil…
Review: “Midnight in the Pentagram,” ed. Kenneth W. Cain
Rating: 4 out of 5 As a note, I end up giving most multiple-author anthologies a 4/5 largely as a result of the fact that most people’s personal tastes won’t wholly match up with those of the editor, but the…
Review: “Dig Two Graves, Volume II” Various Authors
Rating: 3 out of 5 A horror anthology full of revenge stories: how could I go wrong? Dig Two Graves:An Anthology Vol. II presents a wide variety of horror styles, and this becomes a negative. When I hang out on…
Review: “Lucid Screams,” Red Lagoe
Rating: 5 out of 5 Red Lagoe’s Lucid Screams is a delightful collection of 16 horror short stories. A few of them are creature features, but sometimes the horror is closer to home, and there are also plenty of horrific…
Review: “Graveyard Smash,” from Kandisha Press
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 I enjoyed reading Graveyard Smash: Women of Horror Anthology Volume 2, but thought volume one, Under Her Black Wings, was a little bit better. Once again, I have to knock them just a little for…
Review: “Her Body and Other Parties,” Carmen Maria Machado
Rating: 4 out of 5 Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties: Stories is a bizarre and arresting collection of short stories. “The Husband Stitch” is one of my favorite stories in this volume. It’s about a girl’s journey…
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Review: “The End Is Now,” ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey
Rating: 5 out of 5 In volume one, The End Is Nigh [review], the stories led up to an apocalypse. In The End is Now (The Apocalypse Triptych Book 2), the apocalypse is upon us. The third volume will be…
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Review: “The End Is Nigh,” ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey
Rating: 5 out of 5 John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey have edited the glorious anthology, The End is Nigh (The Apocalypse Triptych) (Volume 1). The idea is that the first anthology deals with the events leading up to the…
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Review: “All That’s Fair,” S.H. Cooper
Rating: 4 out of 5 This is a really enjoyable collection of short horror stories by S.H. Cooper: All That’s Fair. (The author was kind enough to give me a copy.) I think I like a couple of her other…
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