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 →
It's always going tricky when a house, be it haunted or not, is the main setting of the story. This is because it's been done countless times, and the author needs to be very clever in how they approach the way the story is told. The main concern is that it can be easy to... Continue Reading →
Page Count: 143 Publisher: Matador Release Date: August 2018 _____________________________ I've always said that reading and reviewing debut works can be tricky. The reason is that the author intends to focus on being over-decriptive (style over substance) in the way that they tell the story, and as a result, the core essence can get lost.... 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 →
Ah, you can't beat a good, old-fashioned ghost story. Not the one where the ghost is terrorising a house, but one where it has a purpose. And that's what Hope and Walker is -- a story with a purpose. Em's father owns a funeral parlour where she grows a fascination with talking to and drawing... Continue Reading →
Twilight Hotel Vol 1 is the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign consisting of the team, story writer RA X, artist Michael Aryn and editor Darrell E. Smith. It's the first of an intended four part series. However, it also has a tough job to accomplish. Not only does the comic have to be good... Continue Reading →
Debut works from writers can be tricky, especially the ones that are self-published. With new technologies, the market has become over-saturated in recent years. However, since releasing his collection of short stories, ITCH, A.A. Medina has gone on to release his novella, Siphon, via Hindered Souls Press, making it an exciting year for him already... Continue Reading →
The Horror Club speaks to Canadian-based artist, Kendra Sartorelli, about her work, influences and plans for the upcoming year. Tell us about yourself? I'm a Toronto-based artist who creates original monster paintings. I have a home studio where I work, and I've shown my artwork in several solo and group exhibitions. I love the horror... Continue Reading →
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