If you are a fan of horror, then you’ve got to get your hands on Dark Screams: Volume One. This delicious little anthology features short stories by Stephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, and Ramsey Campbell. Your fearless editors are Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar. If you are at all familiar with […]

If you have a place in your heart for old ballads and folklore, you really can’t go wrong by reading “Out of Tune,” edited by New York Times Bestseller Jonathan Maberry, and published by JournalStone. “Out of Tune” is an anthology featuring all new stories that are influenced by old ballads from not only the […]

Chain of Evil, JournalStone’s Guide to Writing Darkness by Dr. Michael R. Collings, gives us 50 essays on a blend of topics related to horror writing. While the first part of the book does a good job of holding reader interest by having chapters on typical horror tropes such as vampires, werewolves, zombies, and such, […]

You will love Soda Pop Soldier by Nick Cole. And if the name sounds familiar, it’s because he is the author of The Old Man and the Wasteland. You know, the first book in The Wasteland Saga. If you missed it, please read it, too. You won’t regret it. Soda Pop Soldier is written in […]

Some books we rush through because each page is like a roller coaster, traveling up and down hills and around sharp curves at 90 miles per hour. Other books are subtle, not necessarily slow, but are full of wonderful language, ideas, and characters, and we want to absorb them piece by piece, and then start […]