The second part of Michael Cisco’s The Divinity Student is up over at Weird Fiction Review. It’s a pretty great site and I’d love to essentially just link everything over there, but I’ll be a bit more restrained and just refer you to it in toto. However, before I take up my new life of restraint, […]
Recently I was fortunate enough to win an e-book copy of Adam Aresty’s novella “Recovery” from the good people at Kraken Press. It’s a brief but enjoyable read. I think the less you know about the details of the plot before you read it, the better. It will suffice to say that this is a […]
The lovely people at Weird Fiction Review are currently serializing Michael Cisco’s The Divinity Student for free. Right now Chapters 1 and 2 are up for your reading enjoyment. I was previously unaware of Dr. Cisco’s work but thankfully I keep a thumb on the fluttering pulse of the weird via select Twitter feeds (@lairdbarron, @undertowpubs […]
###A Lengthy Pre-Digression### One of the other books I’ve been reading recently is David Byrne’s “How Music Works.” While its all generally interesting, I really enjoy reading the odd specifics of how artists create, so I found the sections about recording fascinating. In particular, there’s a part about how Byrne developed a process for writing […]
“This movie isn’t nearly as haunted as it is flat out Irish.” — Casey White (my wife)
Merry Christmas Eve Day! As an early present, I give you a link to Grim Blogger’s excellent review of Thomas Ligotti’s “Christmas Eves with Aunt Elise: A Tale of Possession in Old Grosse Point.” Aside from being seasonally appropriate, this review does an excellent job of really unpacking the tale. I’ll admit that I used […]
Here’s a post from the road, and happy holidays to everyone! Today I’ll be writing about Graham Greene’s short story “The End of the Party”. It’s a non-horror story but it might as well be. Since I’m pretty well caught up on most of my horror story collections back in the city and I’m eagerly […]
#The Grinding House ##By Kaaron Warren (I read this during the Halloween Super Storm Sandy break, but have been remiss in actually publishing this. Mea culpa!) First off, I should clarify that this is a review of the *novella* The Grinding House ([available on Kindle]). This story also lends it name to a collection of […]
I’ve been reading a lot of really great short horror recently. A lot of that has been courtesy of [Shadows & Tall Trees], which is a great collection of low-key horror stories. I highly recommend catching up on the back issues, but in case you’re hesitant, you can read one of the stories from Volume […]
## Gemma Files [^1] So, since I never bother to get around to doing theme updates, I’ve decided that this blog will be more catch-as-catch-can and I’ll update it more as stream-fo-conscious style. I think there is a perpetual war between quality and quantity, but since quality never even showed up to this knife-fight, I’m […]