Richard Thomas’s short story collection Spontaneous Human Combustion was published in February of 2022, but I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy from Turner Publishing several months prior to its release. Richard Thomas was another author I wasn’t all that familiar with, although since he’s had about 150 stories published in various horror … More Books: Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas
Since I mentioned on a recent video that I’d been trying to watch some of the newer films that have recently been added on Shudder, I was happy to get a recommendation along those lines from a listener, who told me I should watch the 2022 film Speak No Evil, which premiered earlier this year … More Movies: Speak No Evil (2022)
Jeremy Ray is an author I hadn’t encountered before; according to his bio, he’s found success as a playwright and with a few of his screenplays, but his first love is short prose. He’s not exclusively a horror writer, as he likes to hop genres, but his 2021 novella Petrified Women is undoubtedly a horror … More Books: Petrified Women by Jeremy Ray
I chose Brandon Massey’s Dark Corner completely at random out of my Kindle Unlimited recommendations, and as usual, I didn’t read the description of the book; I just dived right in. The book is actually older than I thought it was when I first started reading it, having come out in 2005. Now, I will … More Books: Dark Corner by Brandon Massey
Not long after my recent post where I revisited both seasons of the iconic 2006 & 2007 Showtime anthology series Masters of Horror, a friend of mine reminded me of something that I had, for some reason, completely forgotten about: that there was technically a third season of Masters of Horror, after a fashion. Following … More Revisiting Fear Itself (2008 TV Series)
Look on almost any substantial list of “best horror novels of the 2000s,” and the odds are fairly good that Scott Smith’s 2006 book The Ruins will be on it. It’s a grim, ever-escalating survival nightmare of cruel and heightened nature, and it’s pretty damn gross, to boot. It was made into a decent film … More Books: The Ruins by Scott Smith
Not too long ago, I chose Grady Hendrix’s 2016 novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism as one of my favorite horror novels of the 21st century so far, so it was with some measure of…trepidation? cautious excitement?…that I took the news that Amazon Studios was producing a film adaptation of it. I was pretty sure that … More Movies: My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022)
Award-winning author Bryan Smith is largely known for his splatterpunk works, and although his 2021 novella The Unseen definitely has some slasher-type gore, it’s actually more character-focused, and has an absolutely great premise that I had a lot of fun with. I also have to give a shout-out to Scott Cole, who did the cover … More Books: The Unseen by Bryan Smith
Initially slated to premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival (which was cancelled due to COVID), Jonathan Cuartas’s feature-length debut My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To was instead picked up by Dark Sky Films, and in the autumn of that year appeared on several streaming services simultaneously, including Shudder, Amazon Prime, and … More Movies: My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020)
Pennsylvania-based author and poet Oliver C. Seneca recently contacted me by email and offered to send along an ebook of his latest novel, Faces in a Window, for me to review. Of course I agreed, because hey, who am I to turn down free horror books? Faces in a Window, published by Sunbury Press in … More Books: Faces in a Window by Oliver C. Seneca
The Scare Salon 