Fast Women and Neon Lights: Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir is uneven like most short story anthologies are but it features rock solid contributions from Eryk Pruitt, Sam Wiebe, Kat Richardson, Will Viharo and editor Michael Pool.
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Fast Women and Neon Lights: Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir is uneven like most short story anthologies are but it features rock solid contributions from Eryk Pruitt, Sam Wiebe, Kat Richardson, Will Viharo and editor Michael Pool.
My review of S.W Lauden's new Greg Salem novel: Grizzly Season. Maybe not the breath of fresh air Bad Citizen Corporation was, but a strong addition to a building series nonetheless.
Josh Malerman's novella A House at the Bottom of a Lake is thinking man's horror. Let it crawl under your skin.
T.E.D Klein's novel The Ceremonies sure is a cult classic. How does it hold up today? Read my review to find out.
In case you didn't know it already, Laird Barron's always been this awesome. The Imago Sequence is just as solid as anything he's written.
Livia Llewellyn's short story collection Furnace will challenge what you know and what you think you know about cosmic horror.
Brian Evenson's Last Days is everything is promises to be. A powerful and entertaining detective novel about the process of worship. It already has a proud place in my book collection.
Philip Fracassi's single serving horror novelette Mother is meant to get under the skin of whoever has foolishly been chasing the happily ever after and it is quite apt at what it does.
Gateways to Abomination became a cult hit with horror fans over the last two years and I'm here to confirm it is a glitchy, fragmented and nasty good time!
Nick Mamatas' I am Providence is challenging and iconoclast satire that will dare you to look at Lovecraft's legacy with a more critical eye. Fantastic novel.
Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham's Nameless is an unforgettable experience in cosmic terror. Not for the squeamish or light sleepers.
Greener Pastures transcends its collected stories format only occasionally, but it is foreshadowing the inevitable rise of Michael Wehunt as one of the best new voices in weird fiction.
Michael Griffin's debut short story collection The Lure of Devouring Light doesn't always shine equally, but it offers several subtle, nuanced and thoroughly unique thrills to its readers, which is a rare thing. Great mood reading!
Phlip Fracassi's novelette Altar is more of a portrait than a complete narrative, but it doesn't make its vision of nightmare less effective.
Ecstatic Inferno by Autumn Christian is a beautiful, dislocated and tragic short story collection of speculative fiction with cosmic horror elements.
Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's Transmetropolitan is a quintessential read for scorched 21st century idealists like me. It should be taught in schools all over the world.
Devil's Pocket would be a great young adult novel if it didn't get in its own way trying to convince you of the moral superiority of its own protagonist. Because of that, it's just an okay book.
Robert Brockway's debut novel The Unnoticeables doesn't feature sweaty, shirtless shapeshifters or hypersexual huntresses wearing uncomfortable-looking leather outfits. Well, it's pretty good. Check it out.
John Jeremiah Sullivan is undoubtedly one of America's finest essayists. His collection Pulphead is both incredibly elating and frustrating, but he DOES have the total package: wit, empathy, observational skills. Impressive stuff.
