BY THE LIGHT OF MY SKULL BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

By the Light of My Skull is Ramsey Campbell’s newest short story collection. I always love reading Ramsey’s horror tales and this collection continues on his tradition of excellence. If forced to chose my favorites from this book, I’d pick “The Moons”, “At Lorn Hall”, Reading the Signs”, “The Wrong Game” and “Fun of the […]

13 QUESTIONS WITH JOANNA PARYPINSKI

I first became aware of Joanna Parypinski when we each had stories appear in the anthology Indiana Science Fiction 2011 from James Ward Kirk Publishing. Since then, her writing career has really taken off, having stories published in numerous high profile publications (just check out her impressive author bio after the interview to see what […]

DENNIS ETCHISON ARTICLE

Writer and editor Dennis Etchison passed away on May 28th this year following a long, storied career writing and editing in the horror genre. I first discovered him as the editor of the Masters of Darkness anthologies. Tonight, we’re going to look at several of his own short stories. My favorite of these would be […]

THE EERIE TALES OF REGGIE OLIVER

Recently, I read a few stories by Reggie Oliver in the Terror Tales anthologies edited by Paul Finch. First, I came across “Holiday From Hell”. It had a unique premise and memorable characters. It ended up being one of my favorite stories in the book. Next up was “Striding Edge”. I loved it! It struck […]

THE MARTLEDGE VARIATIONS BY SIMON KURT UNSWORTH REVIEW

The Martledge Variations is a micro-collection of stories written by Simon Kurt Unsworth which is published by Black Shuck Books. In it, we are returned to the world of Unsworth’s paranormal investigor Richard Nakata. I’m a fan of Simon’s horror tales and have featured a couple of his collections here before in Lost Places: https://horrordelve.com/2013/12/14/lost-places-by-simon-kurt-unsworth/ […]

BLACK INFINITY ISSUE #4 STRANGE DIMENSIONS

BLACK INFINITY magazine returns yet again! This time the theme is Strange Dimensions. The book contains 13 stories dealing with parallel realities in one form or another. There’s also a reprint of a vintage Steve Ditko comicbook story, editor Tom English’s always delve into the issue’s theme, a Todd Treichel weird science article, as well […]

THE DEAD SHERIFF VOL. 2 CANNIBALS AND BLOODSUCKERS REVIEW

I read Mark Justice’s first Dead Sheriff (Zombie Damnation) novel for review back in 2014 with a bit of trepidation at first due to my not being a big fan of westerns. As it turned out, Mark’s imagination and gifted storytelling ability swiftly won me over. It was so chock-full of thrilling, comic book-style, weird […]