It's the end of the year, and The Horror Club has decided to share the top three books the site has given the highest review ratings to throughout the year. 1) Hope and Walker by Andrew Cull: Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Our thoughts: Exhilarating prose shrouded within a mysterious story, topped off with an interesting character,... Continue Reading →
Novels that have a house as one of their main settings need to avoid the trap of cliches. It's easy to say that, but with countless stories starting off well, only for them to fade away due to cliches, it needs to be said. Tim Meyer's The Switch House, as you can tell, deals with... Continue Reading →
Short Story Collections allow writers to have a larger scope, in which they can mix a number of different genres into one overlapping work, giving the reader a taste of different kind of stories. John Claude Smith's Occasional Beasts is an example of this. However, the one key aspect of Smith's collection is consistency. Too... Continue Reading →
Short Story Collections can be tricky. The author must find a perfect balance with each story, and in a way, each of them must complement one another. That Which Grows Wild offers us sixteen tales, each unique in their own way, of dark and wild fiction. Eric J. Guignard is no doubt a talented writer, backed up... Continue Reading →
John F.D. Taff is a Bram Stoker Award®-Nominated author with more than 30 years experience, 90+ short stories and five novels in print. His first fiction collection, Little Deaths, was named the best horror collection of 2012 by HorrorTalk. Jack Ketchum called his novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, “one of the best novella... Continue Reading →
Love reading fiction, but just can't take a plunge on a magazine full of writers you may not be aware of? Or would you just like to broaden your horizons and find new writers? Then, we have the magazine, or ezine rather, for you. And the best thing about it? It's completely FREE. Yes, that's... Continue Reading →
Aphotic Realm have been operating for just over a year now, and since then, they have released three issues (including Classified), Mandi Jourdan's Shadows of the Mind, and a new short story collection called Tales from the Realm Vol 1. When it comes to Classified, which is the subject of this review, it shows just what a... Continue Reading →
The best thing about reviewing books sent to you is that you don't know anything about them. There is no particular biased because you're not a fan nor have you read anything from the author previously. And that's the case with Saga, book one in the Possessions of the Human Kind series. I'm saying this because... Continue Reading →
It's the weekend, which means that you may have some spare time on your hands. If you're looking for a good book with nail-biting suspense, then J. L. Bourne's Day by Day Armageddon is a book you must read. The synopsis goes: An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the... Continue Reading →
The Horror Club recently had a chat with S. G. Browne, who is the acclaimed author of the novels Less Than Hero (2015), Big Egos (2013), Lucky Bastard (2012), Fated (2010), and Breathers (2009), as well as the novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus (2012) and the e-book short story collection Shooting Monkeys in... Continue Reading →
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