Horror Reviews
I do enjoy a good gothic novel. A tale about a once impressive house that has fallen into ruin, its location remote, its inhabitants an enigma. The tales are often full of thrills, romance and even a little horror. But what do you do about a gothic house full of horrific creatures? A story that...
It was not until I browsed my sister’s bookshelves that I realised that vampire fiction is its own genre. She is a prolific reader and seems to exclusively read vampire books. I asked her to lend me some and I realised why you can read so many ‘similar’...
Horror Library is a successful series of horror anthologies which thanks to Dark Moon Books is now finally available in Kindle format.
The latest book in the series is a huge volume assembling twenty-seven tales selected by the new editor Eric J Guignard, who also introduces the...
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
The sea represents a considerable portion of our planet and is involved in many human activities such as commercial trading, fishing, traveling, sport etc. It also played an important role in wartime when battles took place over and under its surface. But the sea and what lies at the bottom of...
It's good to see that we are slowly getting used to living our lives in a pandemic / post-pandemic society. It's a tough time for most people (unless you happen to be a space faring billionaire) but we have vaccines and some promise that with enough people vaccinated, we should at least be able...
Your love of a movie genre can often depend on your age. The current crop of kids is growing up in a Golden Age of Superhero films, but when I was an impressionable teenager, it was all about the horror films. Halloween, Friday the 13th, A...
The prolific, versatile, award-winning British author Paul Kane returns with a collection of eight novelettes, four of which reprints and four previously unpublished.Kane is a veteran in the area of dark fiction and it shows,because all of the included stories are graced by a firm,...
Some of my favourite Urban Fantasy is about a normal world that is unaware of the creatures that lurk in the night. Whilst we are all safely asleep, there is are demons and witches lurking around the corner. Most of us will never even know that these things exist,...
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Australian authors of dark fiction often remain scarcely known outside their country and that’s a shame because the quality of their work is usually very good.
The present volume is the debut collection by Rebecca Fraser, a mix of short stories, flash fiction and dark poems....
Fairies are not real. If they were we would have more evidence of them than a suspect looking photo taken by a couple of Victorian School Girls. However, Fairies are just brighter than you think. Why would they risk being seen by humans who have in recent years...
The latest collection by Anna Taborska, a British filmmaker and horror writer, includes fourteen stories, five of which previously unpublished. The volume is graced by a witty introduction by distinguished fellow writer Robert Shearman and enhanced by a number of beautiful illustrations by...
Volume 12 of Ellen Datlow’s annual “Best of” anthology is a must for any horror lover, assembling a bunch of short stories selected by this distinguished Editor from the usual annual deluge of dark short fiction appeared in print or online.
In addition the volume,as...
Horror - also known as Horror fantasy - is a genre of literature that is intended to induce fear, terror or horror in it's readers.
Horror can be be fantastic, supernatural or simply fictional in nature and is considered to be a genre that has existed in some form for hundreds of years. As with any genre there is always some ambiguity as to what constitutes horror and there does seem to be a modern predilection for a greater degree of dark fantasy and speculative fiction rather than the classic definition of Horror, however there are still some authors producing some top rate novels within the genre.
Here you can see reviews of the latest new horror books along with some of the best classics of the genre.
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