“You don’t know the pain this world has in store for you.” Forget the world; there is more than enough pain in the novel Kill Night by Maximilian Gray. Joe Martinez is a man on the edge, and his life reflects the disintegration of society...

In Kaleidoscope by Janine Pestel, one late October evening in Minnesota, a teenager mysteriously disappears while babysitting. The boy in her care is convinced she was taken by a strange tornado after he'd made a wish. Although the boy is not taken seriously, the...

"The light of consciousness is dimming. How can you reason with those beasts? There are monsters of all sizes here." Mark Anthony Smith's Keep It Inside: And Other Weird Tales uncloaks the mysteries and horrors of nature. Strange and sinister circumstances abound in 20 short...

Will Madden has created a delightful short novella about a vampire called Kevin. No longer known as Gaius Severus, Guy, Cevinus, or Qehveenoz; now it's just Kevin. Being Kevin is entirely appropriate for his new environs within the Greater American Corn Belt. Almost by accident,...

A beautifully written fantasy with an international setting, King of the Nine Hells by Dean Klein is a riveting story that will find a comfortable home with readers who enjoy well-crafted stories of dark magic and fascinating characters. It begins in the Dark Ages, with...

Killer Collector by Linda Guyan is a horror story. When her grandmother died, Paige DeWitt moved into her little house at the end of Greenapple Road. That house was next to a cemetery near to Wolf Lodge, an abandoned hospital. Paige and Grace, her best...

Ketchup on Everything by Nathan Robinson is a weird and creepy tale that had my heart pumping from page one. There are two stories that mingle within these pages. The backstory is the more normal of the two but comes in pieces later on, filling...