Category: creatures

• January 8, 2020

  My Adventures in Patreon: Year One

  It hasn’t quite been a year yet but close enough. Patronage has fluctuated a bit since starting up, but we seem to be at a happy spot. My goal was to get up to 25 patrons, but we haven’t gotten there yet. And that’s okay. I like the gang we do have. I wanted to […]
• November 25, 2018

  End of the Year TBR List…

  Currently reading PRACTITIONERS (Bloodshot Books) from Patrick Lacey and Matt Hayward. While I loved Lacey’s BONE SAW and really enjoyed Hayward’s THE FAITHFUL, this one maybe be the best book of the three. I’m going to try like hell to squeeze these last three 2018 releases into my reading schedule before making my end of […]
• February 2, 2018

  (BOOK REVIEW) BROKEN SHELLS by Michael Patrick Hicks

  

    “He could only watch as a pasty arm jabbed at his face. His back arched as he screamed, the spiked forelimb spearing his eye. Warm jelly oozed down his face as the orb exploded…” BROKEN SHELLS (High Fever Books, 2017), the latest by author, Michael Patrick Hicks (REVOLVER, MASS HYSTERIA), is a wild underground […]
• October 21, 2017

  OCTOBER HOUSE: Some of my Favorite Halloween Reads

  

    There’s nothing us horror writers enjoy more than sharing the horror. We write because we fell in love with reading. We fell in love with stories that moved us, frightened us, aroused us, and made us say, “What the fuck?” Horror has it all. Good horror especially. Heart and soul, ghouls that take hearts […]
• October 7, 2017

  (GIVEAWAY) WIN A SIGNED COPY OF BECOMING

  This beauty could be yours! Something ancient has wormed its way up from the earth…. A change has come today. After Michele Cote’s best friend disappears, no one believes her story about the thing responsible for his abduction. Forced to figure out the mystery for herself, Michele encounters terror she has never known, and witnesses […]
• September 30, 2017

  It’s my birthday! Have a book on me.

  

  It’s my 40th birthday, and I want YOU to get the presents… These titles are all on KU, but today only, you can get Blood and Rain and The Haunted Halls for just 99 cents each, or grab copies of Becoming, Slush, and Out of Range for FREE! Here are the link to each title: […]
• June 23, 2017

  (Review) BONE CHIMES by Kristopher Rufty

  

  A community where the mortgage is paid with blood. A man with an unhealthy devotion to his couch. A death machine that kills whoever its owner wants. A woman escapes one nightmare to find herself in another living hell. A boy learns more about his father than he ever wanted to know. Bone Chimes, the […]
• June 21, 2017

  THE BLACK ROOM MANUSCRIPTS and more updates

  Happy to share the cover for the next installment of The Sinister Horror Company’s THE BLACK ROOM MANUSCRIPTS.  I was super excited to get the invite for this one. The story I delivered, “Orson’s Gas n’ Go”, is my little tribute to Tobe Hooper. Psyched to see the roster here on the cover: Paul Tremblay, […]
• June 19, 2017

  (Review) CAVERN OF THE DAMNED by Russell James

  Broke and desperate, paleontologist Grant Coleman gets the chance of a lifetime exploring a long-sealed cave, the fabled home of a gigantic creatures. NPS Ranger McKinley Stinson discovers a rancher’s prize bull has been butchered by an airborne killer, and tracks the blood trail back to the re-opened cavern. But as she’s about to arrest […]
• May 1, 2017

  (REVIEW) WE CAME BACK by Patrick Lacey

  

  Growing up dead. Melvin Brown sees things that aren’t there. Monsters with tentacles and razor-sharp teeth. Ever the social outcast, he is bullied to the point of suicide. And his hatred of those who did him wrong does not die with him. One decade after Melvin’s death, something strange is happening to Lynnwood High School’s […]