Tag: review

• March 1, 2022

  [REVIEW] The Nightmare Brigade (Vol.1) The Girl from Deja Vu

  The Nightmare Brigade is a comic that comes in volumes roughly the size of five individual issues (though they are only broken in two). This first volume introduces the characters at first and provides us a hook that curl through our cheeks for future volumes in the series. Though designed to be kid friendly, there’s […]
• March 1, 2022

  [REVIEW] Mestiza Blood by V. Castro

  I recently experienced V. Castro for the first time with Queen of the Cicadas, which was great. Though Mestiza Blood is equally unsettling, violent, and sexy, I didn’t feel hooks in me during its reading. Part of the problem was the use of first-person narrative in every single story. It made the vibrations of the […]
• March 1, 2022

  [REVIEW] Elken by Jay Alexander

  Jay Alexander (RIP Nick Harper) is making his folk horror debut with “Elken,” a short story that is beautifully haunting and heavy with atmosphere. The prose are deep and descriptive, poetic and unsettling. This reads like a Harper story, but why wouldn’t it? In fact, it might even be stronger than a Harper story, because […]
• December 22, 2021

  [REVIEW] Lily – Nightmareland Volume 6 – by Daniel Barnett

  This is why people read. Books like Lily. Books that knock your socks off. Books that excite you, scare you, fuck you up and leave you emotionally and physically drained. The Nightmareland series has been reinforcing this expertise in my mind since its debut, Nightfall. What sets Lily apart from the volumes that came first? […]
• November 27, 2021

  [REVIEW] Clown in a Cornfield – by Adam Cesare

  I don’t generally read YA, so I didn’t know what to expect from this (especially seeing horror icons like Barker were raving about it). Turns out you can get away with a LOT more in YA than I realized. This slasher novel reads like an adult novel for the most part, complete with bloody violence […]
• November 12, 2021

  [REVIEW] The Waiting – by Hunter Shea

  I was first lured into Hunter’s writing with Creature, which hooked me right out the gate with its use of the disease, Ehlers Danlos. Not only is it rare, but I have it. This allowed me to connect with the main character and her story in a special way. As it turns out, that novel […]