Tales From The Realm: Volume One is a collection of stories taken from the first few issues of Aphotic Realm Magazine. Aphotic Realm is said to be home to the strange and sinister and there are certainly a few strange and sinister stories hiding within… Aphotic Realm is a themed magazine featuring fiction, non-fiction,…
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Book review: The Way We Came In – Kelby Losack
Hot on the heels of the excellent Heathenish, The Way We Came In tells the story of brothers trying to make ends meet after one is released from prison. How do they do this? They both get jobs at the local store packing groceries, right? Wrong! Drugs, poor decisions lie at the centre of this…
Magazine review: Black Static #64
The July/August issue of Black Static features the usual excellent reviews/interviews and non-fiction from regular contributors, but it’s the stories I always like to focus on. It’s a rarity that this particular issue didn’t resonate with me as strongly as previous ones. The stories weren’t bad, I simply found a couple of them meandered…
Book review: Timeshift: Tales of Time – Anthology
As Cher’s Greatest Hits sang from my speakers I knew it was time, time for a change at beavisthebookhead.com. Timeshift: Tales of Time is perhaps unsurprisingly a collection of time travel stories from such luminaries as Robert Silverberg, Kevin J Anderson and others. Science fiction isn’t really my bag, particularly in the long form….
Book review: Bones – Andrew Cull
Andrew Cull has pulled together his recent short stories and the novella, Knock and You Will See Me into one collection called Bones. Cull is a writer I’m only just becoming familiar with. The novella, Knock and You Will See Me was a hit for this reader. I enjoy character driven horror stories and that…
Book review: The Sea Was A Fair Master – Calvin Demmer
Calvin Demmer’s debut collection features 23 stories in which the author leaves no stone unturned. Demmer runs the gamut of genre fiction and in doing so gives us a varied, often stunning journey through his imagination. Flash fiction is something that either works for you or it doesn’t. Unlike a recent drabble anthology I…
Magazine review: Black Static #63
On the back of finishing the excellent Simon Avery novella, The Teardrop Method, I was eager to jump into the latest issue of Black Static Magazine #63. I’ll be honest, I was pretty wrung out from finishing that book and after excellent non-fiction from the ever-reliable Lynda E. Rucker and Ralph Robert Moore I…
Talking publishing and Stephen King with Max and Lori.
It’s been a while since I last talked to Max and Lori, owners of the fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. Since we last spoke, many books they have published, and as is often the case with PMMP variety is the spice of life. I caught up with them both recently to find out how…
Magazine review: Black Static #62
Issue #62 of Black Static is once again chock full of deep, thoughtful dark fiction. This is fiction that will squirm inside of you, leaving a dark stain on your memory and things get off to a bleak dystopian beginning with Sanguinary Scar by E. Catherine Tobler. This is a pretty grim tale where a future New York-one…
Book review: Little Deaths – John F D Taff
I have often talked about the writing talents of John F. D. Taff. Well, I’m about to do so again. Little Deaths has arisen from the ashes. It has a splendid new cover, it’s been re-edited and there have been some new stories included. It all adds up to a collection of modern horror…
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