Regulars here will be familiar with my affinity towards metal, and it’s the blackest of metal on most occasions is what I can be found listening to. Yes, that abrasive, caustic stuff where singers shriek, garggle and howl into the microphone, guitars cut and scythe and drums blast you into a state of perpetual…
Tag: Word Horde
Corpsepaint – David Peak and Word Horde get kvelt
April 30th sees publisher Word Horde unleash David Peak‘s latest novel, Corpsepaint – a black metal inspired horror novel! To say I’m excited about reading this is an understatement (so much so, I immediately hit Word Horde‘s Ross Lockhart up for a review copy!). I love metal, especially black metal, and so what better way to…
Book review: An Augmented Fourth – Tony McMillen
Tony McMillen’s latest novel, An Augmented Fourth, is a cosmic horror love letter to Birmingham’s finest heavy metal act, Black Sabbath. When the bass player from rock band Frivolous Black awakens to a vicious snow storm trapping him inside his hotel, things soon take a bizarre and cosmic twist as our ageing musician becomes locked…
Book review: The Raven’s Table – Christine Morgan
To quote one of my favourite movies, it’s time to “Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.” The Raven’s Table is a GREAT collection of Viking stories from the pen (mightier than the sword?!) of Christine Morgan and publisher Word Horde. I think that the cover art and…
Spiders, art and horror – an interview with Betty Rocksteady
I hope to bring you at least one interview a month in 2017. I love talking to people about their art and I feel like these people deserve a much bigger audience, so let’s see how we go. Last week I spoke with UNNERVING MAGAZINE and today I’m chatting with Betty Rocksteady. Betty is a…
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)….
Book review: Eternal Frankenstein – Anthology
Ross E. Lockhart takes on the role of Victor Frankenstein and in doing so assembles a number of quality contributors to bring forth this anthology of inhuman horror. Lockhart’s press Word Horde is responsible for bringing us a string of consistently quality books over the past few years. Chief editor Ross E. Lockhart certainly has…
Book Review – The Fisherman – John Langan
I feel truly blessed as a reader for some of the books that have come into my possession during 2016. It has been the best year yet, as far as I am concerned and we are only 6 months into it! Another home run comes in the shape of ‘The Fisherman’ by John Langan. I…
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