I opened up a package a couple of weeks ago to find several advance reading copies sent my way from Flame Tree Press. One of the novels in the box was The Haunting of Henderson Close, by Catherine Cavendish. I took it and the other books and put them on the bookshelf down in my…
Category: Horror
Mayan Blue: A Bloody Good Tale
2018, book-wise, has been an interesting year for me. I’ve ‘discovered’ lots of new authors and novels I hadn’t heard of before. As far as horror fiction went, in the past my reading largely consisted of the old stuff, by Lovecraft, Poe, Bierce, Bloch, Blackwood, and other like authors. My knowledge of contemporary authors…
Coyote Songs: A Tale of Savage Beauty
Several weeks ago, I was listening to an episode of the Three Guys With Beards podcast, and one of the guys mentioned he was reading Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias. The praise he gave the book, and the tidbits he mentioned piqued my curiosity, and I proceeded to Amazon to check out the novel. …
Bird Box: Josh Malerman Delivers, and Then Some
Last night, I finished reading Bird Box by Josh Malerman, and all I can say is…Damn. Just, damn. A little about myself, in regards to horror fiction. I grew up reading the classics: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Bloch, and others from that era. Contemporary horror fiction, save…
Horror and Me Part One: The Finger From the Chest
Do you remember the first scary story you ever read? Can you remember where you read it? I do. It was a fiendishly frightening tale titled The Calamander Chest by Joseph Payne Brennan, and it was in an anthology titled Ghosts and Ghastlies, edited by Helen Hoke (more on her later). The book was one…
S.D. Vassallo 