Scary Horror
Haunted house entry taking. 3.5 out of 5
A photographer has dreams that seem to predict the future. A family, too. It is worse than it seems, though, despite the dream ability allowing him to make money from excellent photo opportunities. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Dreams In Black and White – John R. Little
I go both ways this time. 3.5 out of 5
Serial death role. 3.5 out of 5
A short novel of two strands Birth of an Artist and The Present All of which leads Henry to a confrontation with a monster below. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about The Painted Darkness – Brian James Freeman
American Futurity missing. 3 out of 5
An excellent anthology of good horror stories at 3.60, with a couple reaching greater heights. Gateway Drug : Timing Chains of the Heart – Scott Nicholson Gateway Drug : In The Family – Scott Nicholson Gateway Drug : The Cutting Room – Shane Jiraiya Cummings Gateway Drug : Work In Progress – Scott Nicholson Gateway [...]
Pet cemetery monster affection. 3.5 out of 5
Mum does the big D for me to Rock. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Devil’s Doormen – Scott Nicholson
Murder Avoidance Queen. 3.5 out of 5
China doll volcano knife. 3.5 out of 5
The not quite dead ones, servant. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about The Cutting Room – Shane Jiraiya Cummings
Mum didn’t appreciate all the death stuff. 3.5 out of 5
One year murder deal renege. 3.5 out of 5
Sort of stuffed. 3 out of 5
At 3.38 this group of horror works is his strongest collection, with one very strong story. Ashes : Homecoming – Scott Nicholson Ashes : Haunted – Scott Nicholson Ashes : The Christening – Scott Nicholson Ashes : She Climbs A Winding Stair – Scott Nicholson Ashes : Must See To Appreciate – Scott Nicholson Ashes [...]
Poe Mary. 3 out of 5
Watching the dead line. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Endless Bivouac – Scott Nicholson
Murder is easy if you are a ghost. 3.5 out of 5
Nasty smell. 3 out of 5
Executed boy back. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about The Night Is An Ally – Scott Nicholson
War money. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Three-Dollar Corpse – Scott Nicholson
The Engineer and the Jilted Lady. 3 out of 5
Son fade. 3 out of 5
Wreck arrival. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about She Climbs A Winding Stair – Scott Nicholson
Ghost Stamey baby save. 3.5 out of 5
Definitely not mice. 3.5 out of 5
“It owned her. Maybe it—the fear, the darkness, The Creep—wouldn’t take her this morning, but she knew it was out there. No, not out there. In here. In her head. The worst place of all. This was an inside job all the way. The monster rummaged in the rooms of her mind, hid in cramped [...]
The old get to go back and solve your own murder story. 3.5 out of 5
The old get to go back and solve your own murder story. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Dead Love Longer – Scott Nicholson
Another 3.30 type anthology from Nicholson – with one dead sheep standout. Zombie Bits : A Farewell to Arms – Scott Nicholson Zombie Bits : Bleeding Ink – Scott Nicholson Zombie Bits : Need – Scott Nicholson Zombie Bits : Survivors – Joe McKinney Zombie Bits : Carnival Knowledge – Scott Nicholson Zombie Bits : [...]
This is pretty bad and gray Daddy. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about You’ll Never Walk Alone – Scott Nicholson
Zombie sheep food, mate. 4 out of 5
Munch out, honey. 3 out of 5
Finishing her bones. 3.5 out of 5
Zombie Freak showing. 3 out of 5
Hell it is, like a turtle shell. 3.5 out of 5
Want Page. 3 out of 5
Sons of Lazarus story. 3 out of 5
Too many zombies to kill, so guess my kids get eaten. 3.5 out of 5
A horror anthology this time, however only a 3.22. Head Cases : Fear Goggles – Scott Nicholson Head Cases : Beggar’s Velvet – Scott Nicholson Head Cases : The White House – John Everson Head Cases : Heal Thyself – Scott Nicholson Head Cases : Metabolism – Scott Nicholson Head Cases : Letters and Lies [...]
Write revenge someday. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Do You Know Met Yet? – Scott Nicholson
Slab birth horror. 3.5 out of 5
SIDS problem. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about The Weight of Silence – Scott Nicholson
Century past. 3.5 out of 5
Hammer down. 3 out of 5
Dust end. 3.5 out of 5
Dark now. 3 out of 5
On the proper colour of gelatin and the right pie for dealing with death. And for dealing with dead people that want to deal with you. 3 out of 5
Blood and nails. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about How To Build Your Own Coffin – Scott Nicholson
Night Owl killer caller. 3.5 out of 5
Jetcar freedom. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Taste of Clouds – Scott Nicholson
Time withdrawal. 3 out of 5
Mass suicide special. 3.5 out of 5
Sculpting trial. 3.5 out of 5
Tapeworm rocked. 3.5 out of 5
Temple Aeolus. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Floating Cathedral Song – Scott Nicholson
Warrior creation. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Way of All Flesh – Scott Nicholson
Highly consistent spooky short story collection at 3.30. Flowers : The Vampire Shortstop – Scott Nicholson Flowers : Thirst – Scott Nicholson Flowers : When You Wear These Shoes – Scott Nicholson Flowers : Invisible Friend – Scott Nicholson Flowers : The Night the Wind Died – Scott Nicholson Flowers : Scarecrow Boy – Scott [...]
Dead friends. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about In the Heart of November – Scott Nicholson
Dad is a sun eater. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about The Boy Who Saw Fire – Scott Nicholson
Appalachian monster Barry food. 3.5 out of 5
Maker Moon. 3.5 out of 5
Storm girl. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about The Night the Wind Died – Scott Nicholson
Crazy-brain dummyhead half-dead. 3.5 out of 5
Rain girl unhappy. 3.5 out of 5
We’re not aliens, just werewolves. 3 out of 5
The US government has a demon in a hidden complex. Or what may be a demon, but could be an alien. People work there that are desperate enough have agreed to work on studying this thing that eats whole sheep like hamburgers and as it turns out is really smart, knows many languages and has [...]
That’s enough killing and eating the ex, really. Let’s get married. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Hunting Season: A Love Story – Blake Crouch and Selena Kitt
Another of the Crouch gun collections. This one has several good stories. SIX IN THE CYLINDER : PERFECT LITTLE TOWN – BLAKE CROUCH SIX IN THE CYLINDER : SERIAL – BLAKE CROUCH SIX IN THE CYLINDER : THE NEWTON BOYS’ LAST PHOTOGRAPH – BLAKE CROUCH SIX IN THE CYLINDER : THE METEOROLOGIST – BLAKE CROUCH [...]
A four story collection, all average – which also explains the Fully Loaded title of another. Four Live Rounds : Remaking – Blake Crouch Four Live Rounds : On The Good Red Road – Blake Crouch Four Live Rounds : Shining Rock – Blake Crouch Four Live Rounds : Four Live Rounds – Blake Crouch [...]
This is a solid novel of the good old Satanist menace variety. I like it rather more the second time around. The protagonist has a dysfunctional love life, and is in therapy for her issues. We come to realise that there is something a little off about her as the novel goes along, and she [...]
Continue reading about The Skull Ring Bonus Edition – Scott Nicholson
Ouija planchette, Daddy. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Through An Eyeglass Darkly – David Niall Wilson
Me and the kid definitely might get eaten by a bear. Like the puppy. 3.5 out of 5
Feeling hole. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Where Sunlight Sleeps – Bryan James Freeman
Dark Country, sister. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about A Dreamlike State – Bryan James Freeman
Basement people under. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about What They Left Behind – Bryan James Freeman
Captive choice chew. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Punishment Room – Bryan James Freeman
Ghost fight. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Answering the Call – Bryan James Freeman
Plenty of dead teenagers. 3.5 out of 5
No end of bombs. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Walking With the Ghosts of Pier 13 – Bryan James Freeman
A graveyard has something not living subsisting there – plenty of bodies to eat. Three boys are friends – the violent father of one of them being a graveyard minder. Add in the girlfriend of a man who was eaten very recently and is rather fancied by the Ghoul for procreation purposes and you have [...]
“Have you heard of the Jekyll-Frankenstein serum?” 3.5 out of 5 http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/alternative-history/lavie-tidhar/the-stoker-memorandum
A detective working on some murders finds something disturbing – a vampire. He also ends up as one and ends up trying to trace the vampire, bringing him deep into another world and also a change of cop career locations. 3.5 out of 5
A young man goes back to the old town. Well, the old hamlet if you like. His problem is what goes on at the church there. A good, new-fangled snake cult. Complete with supernatural entities and rituals involving such. Young women, bad things, etc. Snakes, supernatural and crazy Californian hillbillies in this polished horror novel. [...]
The Langoliers meets Invasion of the Zombie Body Snatchers. Or a few people left around after a strange electromagnetic incident find out that the fellow that all wear shades and gloves are out to get them. And something is in their heads. 3.5 out of 5
A man is swallowed by a giant undead ape and his spousal unit has to try and get him back. 3.5 out of 5
A man goes on holiday, looking for a fairdinkum old fashioned Welsh put to stay it. He finds one including the odd inhabitants who don’t look too happy. The couple that owns the place are happy to feed and beer him but when he asks for a room they encourage him not to stay. As [...]
Continue reading about The Bell – Paul Lewis and Steve Lockley
Dead Man 1 A man goes skiing with his more competent girlfriend and ends up getting caught in an avalanche. Some history found out in flashbacks of the relationship between him and his best friend as three months later he thaws out and comes back to life. His best friend now something evil that needs [...]
Continue reading about Face of Evil – Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin
A special forces operation in Afghanistan comes across something disturbing. Taliban enemies that don’t die if you shoot them. Also like to bite their foes. As tends to happen in these things, this disease spreads exponentially. Those affected show the ability to actually learn. Use tools like rocks and then guns and even vehicles. In [...]
Maggots are arse. 3.5 out of5
Pounding your head might fix it. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Pounding your head might fix it. – Mark McLaughlin and Kyra M. Schon
Corpse raising problem. 2.5 out of 5
Bodies to use good, fire, a Franken problem. 3.5 out of 5
A decent short horror collection with the title story the strongest. Anything Can Be Dangerous : ANYTHING CAN BE DANGEROUS – Matt Hults Anything Can Be Dangerous : FEEDING FRENZY – Matt Hults Anything Can Be Dangerous : THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH – Matt Hults Anything Can Be Dangerous : THE FINGER – Matt [...]
Continue reading about Anything Can Be Dangerous – Matt Hults
Possibly not dead. 3 out of 5
Arrowed and shot down in the good old burial ground. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Through the Valley of Death – Matt Hults
Cook not eaten. 3 out of 5
Blind dates and bad plastic bags. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Anything Can Be Dangerous – Matt Hults
Old one story end. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Interview With A Psycho – Billie Sue Mosiman
