Today is release day for GARDEN OF FIENDS! Take a look at these early reviews: For those who don’t know, Garden of Fiends is an anthology of addiction-themed horror, and it contains a tiny story by me along with longer pieces by some great writers. “There’s something here to scare anyone and everyone. Garden of Fiends […]
Tag: Horror
Truth is Darker than Fiction: An Introduction to GARDEN OF FIENDS
This is a guest post by Mark Matthews, editor and publisher of Garden of Fiends, a collection of addiction-themed horror stories. The intoxication from a pint of vodka, the electric buzz from snorting cocaine, the warm embrace from shooting heroin—drinking and drugging provide the height of human experience. It’s the promise of heaven on earth, […]
Coming in Eight Days…
Check. This. Out. Garden of Fiends is an anthology of addiction-themed horror stories from some of the genre’s best and most promising writers (only slightly marred by including a story of mine). It’s out in ten days but there’s a discount offer available for pre-orders (or so the publisher tells me). Authors in the anthology […]
Nightmares by Subscription – A Review of Nightmare Magazine Issue 44
Nightmare Magazine is one of the better things you can infect your Kindle with every month. This month was no exception. In the current issue of Nightmare Magazine, there are four stories; two reprints and two originals. The originals are The Old Horror Writer by Adam-Troy Castro and Sawing by Lisa Goldstein. The reprints are […]
Monsters, Monsters Everywhere.
When was the last time you read something truly disturbing? Well, I have a story in an anthology out in a few days from Bloodshot Books, Not Your Average Monster 2, that I think is the creepiest thing I’ve ever written. The anthology is a collection of monster short stories, but without vampires, werewolves and ghosts. […]
“Sit down. I’ll tell you”
I just read a great short story. It’s a little disturbing and I don’t think I’ll ever look at sleepwalking the same way again. The story in question is Megan Neumann’s It Must Feed, in the horror anthology Not Your Average Monster from Bloodshot Books. The story tells the tale of two sisters, Abby and […]
Read Any Good Books Lately? I Did.
I’m about to finish the last couple of stories in an anthology called The New Black, and soon so will you. I read a lot of anthologies but so far this year, The New Black is the standout. I was thrown off at first because of two things; my idea of “noir”, which all these […]
Ellen Datlow Interview
I had a few words with Ellen Datlow over email earlier this year, and interviewed her for Bookriot in conjunction with Women in Horror Month and the release of Lovecraft’s Monsters. Here is that interview now, for your reading pleasure. February was Women in Horror Month, and the first person I thought of when I […]
Are Genre Short Stories Better Than Novels?
I just interviewed Ellen Datlow for Bookriot, and that interview will be posted sometime next week (probably). In the meantime, here is Ellen on the power of the supernatural short story versus the novel, a sentiment I agree with. “I think that fiction of the supernatural works better in the shorter forms for the simple […]
A Peek Inside My Kindle
Here’s what’s at the the top of my Kindle right now; the stuff I most recently added or read. It’s interesting to see that of the fifteen items on there, only two are novels. These are Colin F. Barnes‘ gritty Artificial Evil and Barry Napier‘s Broken Skies, his latest book for Severed Press (that’s the […]
