‘Blue Demon’ is another winner for writer David Bernstein and definitely my favourite novella from him that I have read thus far. The story starts off with young Cal, a boy who loses his father in a car accident. His old man is trying to secure him a pricey action figure (the Blue Demon) but…
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The Grim Reader talks to UNNERVING MAGAZINE
The horror fiction genre is a tough nut to crack. Most genre readers are tired of their local bookstores disinterest with horror and so they need to get their kicks elsewhere. There are a ton of small publishers working magic within the genre by releasing cutting edge dark fiction and readers are overwhelmed with…
Guest post: Mark Allan Gunnells talks
Mark Allan Gunnells has been pretty busy this year on the writing front. His co-authored book with Aaron Dries, ‘Where the Dead go to Die’ is featured in my years best of 2016. It is an astonishing book that turns a familiar horror trope upside down, pulls out its intestines and devours them. It is…
Book review: An Ideal Retreat – Mike Griffin
Released as a chap book through Dim Shores, ‘An Ideal Retreat’ is a wonderful, slow-burning story centring around Noone Radox. A woman escaping her mundane marriage to her husband, Ian, she drives up to the family retreat – supposedly an old, rundown shack. When Noone arrives however, the shack has undergone something of a transformation….
2016 best of the best…according to The Grim Reader.
I’m sure you have all been hanging on the edge of your seat just waiting to see what novels would feature in my top 20 for 2016. It has been another bumper book year. My Goodreads challenge was met in September, and I anticipate cracking 200 books for this year (including novellas, anthologies and novels)….
BTB Storytellers episode 13: Michael Hicks talks REVOLVER
This week Michael Patrick Hicks steps up and talks about his novella ‘Revolver’. I read this little beauty not long ago (see my review here. ) and I can tell you that it’s an absolute doozy of a read. It is a short science-fiction tale set in a future United States where the media has too much…
Interview: Iain Ryan and Andrew Nette talk writing and Australian crime fiction.
Australian crime fiction is alive and well and Iain Ryan and Andrew Nette are leading the charge by producing gritty, hard-boiled stories you won’t be putting down in a hurry. I have reviewed both of their books this past week and you can find out my thoughts here and here. I caught up with Iain and Andrew…
Happy Halloween from the Grim Reader
A friend of mine had fun idea to invite a few folk I chat with through social media to draw an image of their favorite horror movies using a drawing program on their Mac or PC. I wanted to get as many as possible for this but unfortunately October has been a crazy busy month…
Guest post: John McNee talks about the value of crap horror!
I love it when writers whose work I have enjoyed chip in with a guest post. Today, John McNee, author of ‘Prince of Nightmares’ (Blood Bound Books) which I reviewed here talks about Shaun Hutson and crap horror, in general, highlighting the value it provided him as an aspiring writer. John is the author of the…
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