Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue 1 adheres to a format that has to be familiar to many fans of speculative fiction, combining a selection of short pieces of fiction with author interviews and reviews. As such, it lays out a feast of ideas that will appeal...

Down Ballantyne Road (Alice and Porkbelly) by Jane McBride is a ghost investigation story with a touch of humor. Alice Gregg took over the running of the diner when her husband died, but she has no real purpose or direction in life anymore. It’s just...

Vampires, fae, spriggins, nymphs and more are taking up residence in greater Manhattan. Of course, as long as they obey the rules and laws of The Vault, that’s just fine with the Regent in charge. When humans start turning up dead and the creatures of...

Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project by Daniel P. Douglas is a thriller with a science fiction twist. William Harrison used to work for the FBI. Now a private investigator, he is on surveillance one night, watching a cheating wife, when he spots something strange...

I read Gristle and Bone: A Short Story Collection written by Duncan Ralston shortly after Halloween, a fitting time for such a read. This anthology begins with Baby Teeth, the tale of a woman unable to have a child...or is she? Just how far would...

Siren’s Call is a mythological fantasy written by Jessica Cage. Syrinada is just an ordinary young woman, as far as she’s concerned. She’s an orphan and was raised by her Aunt Noreen. Everything changes when she’s attacked on her way home by a van load...

Some surprises have more impact than others and what Aysel learns about her life and ‘family’ couldn’t be more of a bombshell! Reluctant Gods IV – Aysel - The Prequel by A.J. Aaron begins the story of Aysel, the sheltered ‘daughter’ of the immortal Varick,...

Wind River Refuge is a romantic suspense novel written by J.M. Anton. It's 1973, and Jax is on her way home for Christmas break to Wyoming, from the east coast where she attends college. She's expecting her friend Dexter to be picking her up from...

The Guardian by Aneta Cruz skillfully combines historical fiction, mystery and the paranormal in one fascinating package. In Prague in 1939, Dr. Josef Stein, the head psychiatrist at a sanatorium called the Chateau, seems to be the epitome of upper-middle-class respectability. However, he has lost...

If we’re sick, we have medicine and doctors to treat us. What about the otherworldly creatures? Where do they go for medical assistance, if they ever need it? David Gelber’s Night Clinic is a series of short stories set in an inner city clinic, where...