Book review: Garden of Fiends – Tales of addiction horror.

Mark Mathews’ Wicked Run Press has assembled quite the cast to share these stories of addiction horror. A mixture of novellas, short stories and a flash fiction piece, ‘Garden of Fiends’ is not a happy reading experience but it is an incredibly fascinating and at times grim one. These are dark tales set against a…

Book review: Unnerving Magazine #2

I was really impressed with issue #1 of Unnerving Magazine, so much so that issue #2 was always going to be a bit like the difficult second album by your new favourite band. My initial worries were laid to rest when I saw that Stephen Kozeniewski *checks spelling*, James Newman and Jessica McHugh had jumped…

Book review: 44 Lies by 22 Liars – Flash fiction from Post Mortem Press

Your mileage will definitely vary with this collection of flash fiction from Post Mortem Press. I almost gave up on this book. I was deep into two novels at the time and decided to read the odd flash piece as a break. It didn’t really work for me so I left it alone until I’d…

Book review: Home Birth – Jessica McHugh

I absolutely adore the artwork that is being created for this series of Kaiju novellas from Apocrypha. These novellas are not your usual Kaiju stories. Yes, there are huge monsters with razor sharp teeth, bulging bodies and multiple appendages but these Kaiju stories are very different. Jessica McHugh’s ‘Home Birth’ is novella number two and it…

Interview: Max Booth III & Lori Michelle talk PMMP

I recently had a sit down with Max Booth III and Lori Michelle to talk about their adventures with Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing (Is this the longest named publisher in the industry?). Anyway, Max and Lori at PMMP have been grafting away since the summer of 2012 releasing a string of quality books that range…

Book Review: The Green Kangaroos – Jessica McHugh

When a book starts with a scene involving substance abuse by way of an injection into the testicles, you know that you’re going to be in for a strange read. This is my first high with Jessica McHugh and I sort of went into this not really having a clue what to expect. I love…