Around three months ago, I saw a notice of the upcoming anthology, Midnight in the Graveyard, from Silver Shamrock Press. The book featured a highly talented group of contemporary horror authors, including Kealan Patrick Burke, Elizabeth Massie, Chad Lutzke, Catherine Cavendish, and many others. I marked it on my calendar and began counting the days…
Category: Scary Stories
Prey
Dustin pulled over and hit the brakes. His car, a rusted out but still functional ’78 Olds Cutlass Supreme, screeched to a halt. He wasted no time getting out of his safety belt. The girl turned her head to look at him as she darted across the lawn of an old house with faded green…
Interview With Elizabeth Massie
Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning and Scribe Award-winning author of novels, short fiction, media-tie ins, and nonfiction. Her novels and collections include Sineater, Hell Gate, Desper Hollow, Wire Mesh Mothers, Homeplace, Afraid, Naked on the Edge, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (co-authored with Mark Rainey), Versailles, The Tudors: King Takes Queen,…
The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz
I’ve been looking forward to reading one of Jonathan Janz’s novels for a while now. The buzz I’ve seen on social media about him and his work has been nothing but positive. When Flame Tree Press offered me an advance reading copy of his upcoming novel, The Dark Game, I jumped at the chance to…
Kicking Off Women in Horror Month
It’s February 1st, and Women in Horror Month has begun. I’m starting my celebration of all the talented women horror writers out there with Devil’s Call, by J. Danielle Dorn. At this moment, I’m only a few pages into the novel, but already I’m loving this story. My attention was captured from the very first…
Thirteen Reads for Women in Horror Month
A little over a week to go till we begin the 2019 Women in Horror Month, and I am excited! I’ve been compiling a list of books to read, review and promote as part of the celebration of WIHM at my blog. It was a challenge compiling this list; there are just so many talented…
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…
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 