Essence Asunder by Feind Gottes –  welcome to body horror! About Essence Asunder A gut-wrenching, stomach-churning journey into one man’s private hell – Essence Asunder is...

Food can serve many functions in crime fiction, from being used directly as a weapon to expressing cultural belonging, gender or class. from...

Deadly Woman Blues by Clinton Walker was pulled from circulation after various factual errors were revealed.  NewSouth Publishing Seldom does a book about music attract...

Horror fiction takes many forms. Good horror is an art form, one that requires considerable mastery and imagination. Psychological horror shades into dark fiction...

I’ve taken a short break from horror to review Stripped to the Bone: portraits of Syrian Women by Ghada Alatrash, a short story collection peppered...

I can’t describe what sort of taste was left in my mouth after reading James H Longmore’s …and Then You Die, a novel that marks my...

Continuing my horror novel reviews, I’m delighted to share my thoughts on J.P. Willie’s Blood in the Woods. Horror fiction comes in many forms and this...

Fran Cooper’s debut novel, These Dividing Walls, is a meditation on the way ordinary lives are impacted by racism, Islamophobia, terror attacks and the far...

A REVIEW BY COLIN TALBOT IN THE VALLEY OF THE WEED by MICHAEL WILDING, (ARCADIA)   Michael Wilding is/was/is a Sydney University academic, a reader in literature...

It’s getting on for two years since The Drago Tree was released by Odyssey Books. Reviews still trickle in and feedback is always warm, sometimes...