The Summoning by Mark Lukens one of those stories it’s easy to lose yourself in. Ryan Freeman awoke in a strange motel room, with absolutely no memory of anything that had happened in his life up until the point at which he awoke. His sole...

Keith Gouveia takes every reader into a world where serial killers come together in a form of social media in The Snuff Syndicate. Instead of just one gruesome story about murder, this book offers readers several short stories combined into one. In The Snuff Syndicate,...

The Dead Lands by Rick Hautala is one more in a long string of top-notch horror stories by this author. Megan McGowan didn’t come home with her brother, Mike. Megan never came home again. Young Mike saw something, but his mind had buried it, because...

The Gothic Shift: American Gothic Vol. 1 is a macabre collection of novellas by award-winning author B.D. Bruns. This book includes four darkly twisted novellas that are sure to intrigue, thrill, and spook even the bravest reader. In the story “The Ghost of Naked Molly”,...

The Safe Harbor is a horror novel written by Renna Olsen. Annie and Lee are burnt-out bartenders in rural Texas, whose friendship is about all they have good going for them. Everything abruptly changes when Annie gets a phone call from a lawyer who informs...

The Dust: Book II: Pursuit by David H. Sharp picks up right where The Dust: Book I: Bloodlust leaves off. This episode of the series is every bit as captivating as was the first book, and I’ll be mighty surprised if Book III isn’t also...

The Demon’s Wife by the late, great Rick Hautala is the first story I have read by Hautala, but it catapulted Rick to the top of my list of favorite authors. With a touch of humor, a touch of romance, and a whole lot of...

The Thirteenth Child by David Dean is a gripping horror story that will leave you alternately with a bad taste in your mouth or wanting more. It’s the story of children who go missing on dark nights and an alcoholic ex-professor who witnesses the snatchings...

The Dust. Book 1 – Bloodlust by David H. Sharp is a post-semi-apocalyptic-dystopian inaugural volume of The Dust series. Something utterly foreign and unknown has caused a massive cloud of ash, later determined to be dust, to settle over the British Isles, fouling machinery, halting...

I usually do not read sequels of books unless I have read the first book in the series, but the cover and description of The Horseless Horsemen: Rita (Volume 2) by R.C. Miller convinced me to read the book. The story begins with a killing,...