"Choosing a Master" is fun vampire fare, with surprisingly deep relationships and a uniquely twisted mythology. A human with a unique gift threatens the status quo in the straightforward, engaging urban fantasy "Choosing a Master" by S.... Read More

"Errant Gods" blends science fiction, fantasy, and horror elements for a compelling adventure. An ailing cop hot on the heels of a supernatural serial killer team seeks to rescue his family in "Errant Gods" by Erik Henry Vick, a unique,... Read More

Two Bodies One Soul: Brothers breaks with tropes of vampire stories, and does so with strength and vision. Two Bodies One Soul: Brothers by Alannah King focuses on experimentation on vampires and the nature/nurture conundrum. The... Read More

Claire’s self-image underscores the notion that anyone could be a violent psychopath. "My Pet Serial Killer", by Michael J. Seidlinger, is an unsettling and deeply graphic thriller focusing on the overlap between sex and violence.... Read More

As trends in genre fiction go, you’d be hard pressed to find a more indelible example than the paperback horror novels of the 1970s and 1980s. All manner of depravity, from Nazi leprechauns, psychic spawn, ghost trains, and... Read More

The images evoked in this reframing of vampire legends are both familiar and strange. Lee Markham’s cross-genre "The Truants" pulls no punches in its paradigm-shifting treatment of vampire legends. An unnamed man sits on a park bench... Read More

Those who enjoy prehistoric monster stories may find it hard to swim in their local lake without wondering what lurks beneath the water. Drawing from scientific research, Native American legends, and prehistoric fossils, Dalton Mire’s... Read More

Scary stories set in an Irish locale are packed full of grim deeds and unceasing violence. A bloodthirsty collection of madmen and murderers fill the Dublin woods in John C. Lukegord’s campy and violent The Haunted Trail. Dylan, a... Read More