Wealthy Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockheart) has installed the ultimate security system on his sprawling country estate. The house has cameras galore (all but the bathrooms), the grounds and woodlands have subterranean pressure sensor grids as well as numerous cameras and microphones. He will be aware if anything is moving on those grounds and track it […]
Read more "Hunters and Prey: The Beast Must Die"There is a point early on in Ken Greenhall’s first novel, where the titular protagonist and narrator asks the reader a rather pointed and blunt question: Have you ever thought about mirrors? Maybe you have. In your bathroom, perhaps, on a quiet Saturday night while you were performing one of those personal acts that you […]
Read more "Upon Reflection: Ken Greenhall’s Elizabeth"Living ain’t cheap in New York City. Never has been. But in 1977, with tenements cluttering up valuable real estate, it gets mighty expensive, indeed. Especially when the fat cats of Iguana Realty, Inc., a dummy company whose real owners are interested in cutting multimillion-dollar real estate deals, have come into possession of a ton […]
Read more "That’s A Promise: Death Promise"Maya (Tara Basro) and Dini (Marissa Anita) are best friends, sassy women who chat via mobile while working late shift at tollway booths on two different roads. They are good friends, trying to scratch together enough money through the rotten night jobs to reach their dream of opening up a clothing boutique. One evening, their […]
Read more "Skins of the Fathers: Impetigore"When a bunch of college kids decide to road trip to a remote lake, they get lost. Turns out Tony (Greg Rhodes) who claimed to know the way to their final destination really doesn’t. Luckily, a hitchhiker appears with a better sense of direction, but Jack (Clark Tufts) also seems to have a hidden secret. […]
Read more "Rotten Hosts and Rotten Guests: Deadly Manor"We all know the white supremacists are horrible people. In the novella Ring Shout, author P. Djèlí Clark asks, “What if they weren’t people at all?” In fact, some of them are people, hateful, driven to a frenzy by such propaganda as white supremacist Thomas Dixon, Jr’s works The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the […]
Read more "When the Devil Comes to Town, You Betta Watch How You Get Down: P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout"It all starts in Santa Del Mar, Mexico when ruthless real estate douchebag Leslie Chase (Robert Patrick) hires some local military types to gun down a troublesome tribe of Totecs who are protesting Chase’s billion-dollar hotel by offing his workers in gruesome fashion—slices across the Achilles tendons and then throat cutting and finally devouring parts […]
Read more "Poke Around As Much As You Want: Last Gasp"In 1974, as blackouts dominate the evening hours, Valerie (Rose WIlliams) begins her new job as a nurse at an established London hospital. The Matron (Diveen Henry) is a domineering sort, who dictates uniform skirts be three inches below the knee and threatens to measure them, her colleagues are a bunch of bitter types, and […]
Read more "Valerie in the Dark: The Power"There’s something rotten in rural Paddock County, California. An axe-wielding maniac is cutting down women one at a time in the most horrible way possible. The killer is an unstoppable maniac, striking as easily on a remote pig farm as in the middle of a car wash. Young guys Gerald Martin (Barton Faulks) and Richard […]
Read more "Dull Blades Hurt Worst of All: Edge of the Axe"As one might expect from the title, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s sixth novel is an eerie exploration of gothic romance and gothic horror tropes set against a rural Mexican background. Mexican Gothic is a period piece, set during the 1950s. There’s a strange country estate, a family with dark secrets, a terrible (and possibly plague ridden) past […]
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