There is a horde of creatures called The Throng that roam from planet to planet through a gateway, subjugating the inhabitants for food and sport. They take all they can from the planet and then move on to the next. Right now they are on Earth. Humanity had been overconfident, thinking they were a superior race, but the monsters took over. They are soon ready to move on to the next planet, seeing as how the human race is all but extinct. But all hope is not gone quite yet. There is The Raven’s Child. Read More »

Jarrod Foster feels as though he is going nowhere. He has a student loan to pay off, but a job he could have done with no high school education. His boss, Ludwig, is a chain-smoking shark, getting all the lousy jobs of hazardous waste removal. Their current job is gutting a decades-old roller rink. Read More »

Kate seemingly has it all - a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, a fulfilling career, and an exciting hobby…it was no wonder Rosie was drawn to her. Kate was so unlike Rosie’s own mother Joanna that it was surprising they were friends, but it was to Kate that Jo turned when Rosie was reported missing and later found dead. Kate did her best to be supportive Read More »

Snow and her Zombie army have ravaged the countryside, and now her numbers are in the thousands. She has made it to the capital city of Platessa ahead of Grouchy and his group of survivors, making their quest to find an answer to stopping her that much more difficult. Read More »

Showdown at Midnight is a collection of stories set in an Old West that is chock-full of the strange, supernatural, and at times horrific. Werewolves, ghost train robbers, wendigos, bloodthirsty vampire bats, you name it. The mix is creative and fulfilling. I liked some stories more than others, but there was not a bad one in the bunch. Read More »

Grouchy and his fellow survivors thought that burning the cursed apple tree would free Snow of her curse and release the zombie “horrors” ravaging the countryside. Of course it did not work, and now the sky itself is poisoned and pouring the curse down on everything. The water is contaminated and the skeletons are rising from their graves. Read More »

That Wicked Apple begins right where book one leaves off and throws the reader right into the thick of the story. Snow is ravaging the countryside with her horde of zombie “horrors.” The dwarf, Grouchy, and his human companions are struggling to understand what is going on and finding a way to stop it. After picking up some new survivors, Grouchy finds out one of his group is actually Queen Adara, who disguised herself as an old crone and gave his beloved Snow that cursed apple. Read More »

Everyone has heard the tale of Snow White being kissed awake by the Prince and getting her happily-ever-after, but that was the version told to children so they would not have nightmares. The real story is she is kissed by the Prince and she wakes, but she does not wake up Snow any longer. She is now a Zombie Princess with a terrible hunger burning her insides and she needs to eat. She no longer sees her friends who have missed her or her true love. Read More »

Tobias leaves his home in Moscow and takes a job as security guard in a small village of Siberia called Vodka Valley. Secluded and surrounded by an icy wilderness with the wind screaming outside his door, he begins to hear and see things that may or may not be there. A sporadic knock on the door drives him outside into the cold and absolute darkness where he quickly becomes disoriented and fearful that he will not find his way back. Read More »

J. S. Bangs’s novella, The Taint, is a dark, moody affair that combines many different horror tropes into a unique, compact story.

Convicted of killing his family, Dimitris Spiridakis is sent to St. Anne’s State Penitentiary where a dark presence known as “The Old Man” roams the halls, and the most formidable inmate is called “The Wizard.” Attempting to prove his innocence, Dimitris gets in good with The Wizard, a Read More »

Roy is the High Priest for a cult of Cthulhu worshipers. They gather together to have orgies for the sole purpose of feeding the sexual energy up to the stars to Cthulhu. He has read the signs and knows the return of the Old Ones is at hand, the chosen vessel, Carol, has been found. Her only purpose is to carry the five pods that will birth the Old Ones, who will bring about the return of Cthulhu. Read More »

Restoring a long-shuttered amusement park and hotel on the shores of Lake Erie seemed like a strange choice for the family from California, but Nick and May Connors hoped that they would be able to make a fresh start. May’s guilt weighed heavily on her when she saw how unhappy her eldest daughter was, though she did her best to push the affair out of her mind and Read More »

Chief Superintendent Frankford Lucas was well aware of his importance to the police force and also of his tenuous hold on reality. After a brief stint in a mental institution in his younger years, Frankford tried his best to keep his visions and intuitions from interfering with his everyday life. When he slept, however, his dreams would take him along The Quiet Road where he learned how to tap in to his hidden powers and assure his success as the Chief. As Read More »

Sheriff Danielle “Danny” Adelman of Forest Peak, California, wakes up on the fourth of July already dreading the day. There is a community festival where she will receive the key to the mountains, she gets to judge a chili contest, she has overslept, and oh, yeah, her kid sister that she is responsible for has run away and used Danny’s vintage mustang to do it in. Read More »

One year after a nuclear blast destroyed New York, Nostradamus Greene and his daughter Naomi are still surviving, thanks to his former Spec Ops training and the fact he was always prepared for something to happen. Unfortunately, the blast wasn’t the only terrible thing to happen. There’s a disease making the rounds; it begins with a rash that spreads quickly, kills in a matter of days, and is highly contagious. Read More »

There’s an apartment in Marc Beckett’s building where the ghosts of the San Francisco Ripper are stuck in eternal torment, and they cry out for vengeance. Halfway across the country, Brennan Cooper has decided that he needs to move away to finish his senior year of high school. His life has taken a downward turn and he feels he needs a fresh start and cannot wait till college. Read More »

The world was reeling from nuclear wars that broke out in the Middle East. The natural power resources were lost in flames and radiation. Communication abilities were nearly non-existent in every nation and each struggled to survive this new era in mankind. In the United States, power became the new currency. Those states that could generate power through oil, coal or nuclear plants soon became almost fiefdoms, bleeding the riches and manpower from less-fortunate neighboring states. Humanity was struggling to adapt to this new reality when yet another blow was struck against it. Read More »

Harry and Jack are brothers taking their annual vacation flying from England to New York. They are told that there will be a delay in landing since JFK airport is not responding. This causes some concern but most people blow it off. Once they do land, the sights that await them are terrifying. Dead people are laying around haphazardly. A living guard appears and offers to help them, only to shoot the first one off the plane and then kill himself. Read More »

The Curse of the Wendigo is the second book in the Monstrumologist series and it succeeded in being even more disturbing than its predecessor. Young Will Henry, assistant and constant companion to the eminent Doctor Pellinore Warthrop, ends up in situations that would be exceedingly harrowing for a grown man, let alone a twelve-year-old. This story is told through his eyes based on a series of journals he wrote as a very old man. The language and prose is indescribably beautiful and Read More »

An ancient evil has been released in Woodbury by the Council of Demons. It once went by the name Kabul a very long time ago. A truly bad thing was done to this creature when all he wanted was to help a village with a rat problem. He knew he could play his pipe and lead the rats away, saving the villagers, but was instead betrayed. Kabul has finally been allowed his vengeance. Read More »