Author Robert E. Hirsch creates a mixture of paranormal, crime drama, dark fantasy, horror, and suspense in his book Contrition. The setting is a small town in Mississippi, close to the Gulf Coast; the culture is French and Slavic. Brother Placidus was filled with fear...

The Loved, the Lost, and the Dreaming, by Michelle Browne, is an exploration of what it means to fear. Her horror anthology takes readers to vastly different landscapes and societies. In The Underlighters, the first story in the collection, and easily a stand-alone novel, Earth’s...

Dr. Vincent Masterson and his fellow scientist are commissioned with a huge amount of money by the military to revolutionize a compound to create super soldiers. Under pressure for the success of the secret project, the scientists give their very best. Unfortunately, the serum turns...

Love Zombies of San Diego by E.Z. Graves is a young adult zombie story that's a bit different. Josh is a zombie but he knows he's different from the grunting, mindless dead things he sees wandering all over the streets of San Diego. Josh doesn't...

Red Moon is a deliciously frightening horror book written and read by author Benjamin Percy. In this horror fantasy, Lycans/werewolves and humans live together…but for how long? The Lycans are infected with a highly contagious plague, causing them to lose all control and become violent....

High Moor 2: Moonstruck by Graeme Reynolds is the second episode in the High Moor series, and may be even better than the first episode. Graeme Reynolds is a master of the werewolf legend, and Moonstruck is one of his brilliantly detailed narratives. The name...

High Moor by Graeme Reynolds is a superbly refined story of werewolves, and the surprisingly structured werewolf social hierarchy. Unstable rogue werewolves are sought out, hunted down, and killed by “the pack” in order to protect the anonymity of their existence. As long as everybody...

Transformed by Rene David Rivero is an esoteric tale of several men who set out to hunt and kill a Wendigo in the winter of 1885. While most motile living organisms either were going, or had already gone south for the winter, these intrepid adventurers...

Mile Marker by Terrill L. Davis is about a serial killer who kills people and then hides their bodies in the woods near the mile markers. One day he is trailed by a state trooper which leads to some bad happenings for him the next...

Pawnee Buttes by Rene David Rivero is an odd story, but one which is oddly engaging. In the basic background part of the story, and even through the midway point, this appears to be a simple tale of two young men, Jack and Tom, who...