The Scarlet Gospels sees the long awaited return and a crusade to the heart of purgatory for two of Clive Barkers most powerful and resolute characters. The Cenobite Hell priest infamously known as Pinhead, although he’s none too fond of that nickname and anyone using it will experience his knowledge of pain and its mechanisms, …Read More

Gehenna is the town, a zombie infestation is the game, and survival is the aim for a small group desperate for escape as the horde get closer. This story was certainly an entertaining actionfest, taking on a here and now philosophy with not much in the way of history/character depth but that’s a small complaint …Read More

The Dunfield Terror is apparently a ‘Lovecraftian horror’ from Scottish author William Meikle, not being well versed in Lovecraft I can’t comment on that but this most certainly has Fog, strange monsters and impending doom in abundance. Set over several timelines in Canada, the first in the present where Frank is part of the crew …Read More

The Rain Dancers is a stunning novella from Greg F Gifune, the author creates an absolutely gripping and intimidating tension. Coupled with the most utterly foreboding atmosphere that will play on your nerves like nothing you’ve read before. Married couple Will & Betty return to her father’s house after his death to settle his affairs …Read More

The Troop is a gripping mix of psychological and parasitic horror that will leave you wincing at some of the descriptions and rooting for some of the protagonists faced with overwhelming odds, my skins crawling just thinking back to those little fuckers at the guts of this story. Five boy scouts and their scout master …Read More

Surrogate by David Bernstein certainly explored an interesting topic but overall I felt there were a few issues that hampered the flow in an otherwise rocket paced novella. The story opens with Rebecca Hardwick doing some gardening, then a second later she gets shot in the stomach, which I thought to be a bit random …Read More

The story starts with an anecdote on the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale, telling the events that inspired the child friendly fable but this version lacks any semblance of a happy ending. In fact an altogether darker affair that develops into a tale that easily and scarily broaches modern day times and I was definitely hooked by …Read More

Matt Shaw writes extreme horror with explicit sex and violence that in no way overshadows the extremely clever plot’s full of twists and surprises you just never see coming. Now Whore is a story that explores, in a way three timelines, I’ve not read a story that attempts this before and Matt Shaw writes it …Read More

Cruelty is an epic horror serial by Edward Lorn, the first episode was originally released in January 2014 and the next four followed in rapid succession. The writing was crisp and flowed majestically, there was a great amount of depth to this story, coupled with some truly memorable characters and I for one was hooked. …Read More

May 2015 will see the return to horror of both one of its masters and one of its most iconic denizens of hell. Clive Barker’s Scarlet Gospels sees the long awaited comeback of Pinhead from the Hellraiser series along with private detective Harry D’Armour. So it’s fitting to go back to where it all started …Read More

Within is Keith Deininger’s take on the fabled town of deceit and deception nurturing the evil within its walls. Existing almost through a tear in the fabric of reality, a place where nightmares are born and clutch at the borders of reality. Mesa Rapids on the Colorado River, houses many of the art fraternity, wealth …Read More

Some Kind of Cu*t from Matt Shaw’s black cover extreme horror series is a seriously troubling and sickening story, it was just too much, crossed to many boundaries that I feel strongly about and in the world of shocking stories. This one exploded way off the scale. A Family, maybe Cult serves better, starts with …Read More

Don’t Read is the latest book from Matt Shaw’s black cover series of extreme horror and this one features a pretty twisted individual writing a book, of sorts anyway. A story that could quite easily sit alongside Matt’s, the only difference, hopefully anyway, is that this one is more of a biography. Chris is writing …Read More

Isaac’s parents have gone out, left him to it, after all, it’s his 16th birthday and he’s invited everyone to his house for a party. Only his close friends have bothered to turn up though and this is fast becoming a disaster. Inexplicably the lemonade bottle is full of vodka and things are looking up, …Read More

Another novella in the extreme horror category, although I do have to ask how they decide it’s extreme because in most cases, it isn’t what I would call extreme. I mean have they never read Edward Lee or Wrath James White, now that’s extreme and this, well I beg to differ. Home Intruder starts off …Read More

The story, well its kids antics as usual until they come up against Officer Mack and see the ugly side of the law, 4 cherry bombs and a missing girl later, with our young protagonists the last to see her alive and the story just rockets along at a frantic pace, one of those you …Read More

Sadie works at the supermarket, hates her job, wants to kill her boss and interspersed with various recipes we embark on a darkly funny journey where we see the world through Sadie’s eyes and the eyes of her alter-ego Sadie the sadist. Told in first person, life’s certainly a lot more interesting and gruesome when …Read More

You know what you’re going to get with a Brian Smith novel, a rip-roaring, blood soaked horror with loads of sex and some wickedly entertaining violence. With Depraved we have a backwater redneck town called Hopkins Bend that really doesn’t like visitors, in fact they have a nasty habit of preying on people travelling through …Read More

If Quentin Taratino decided to pen his take on Charlie’s Angels laden with blood, brutality and some of the most psychopathic, take no prisoners, female characters you’re ever likely to meet, Go Kill Crazy would be the end result. The story is about three female protagonists Lana, Desiree and Echo, they are tattooed strippers, hard …Read More

Header is a story of sheer depravity set in Russell County, centred on the hill folk or rednecks of Kentucky and family revenge going back decades. Travis Tuckton finishes a lengthy prison sentence and returns home, there’s not much of his family left and the only place left to turn is his Grandpappy and his …Read More

The Midnight Order is a novella from Christopher Fulbright and the start showed some definite promise. Nikki Lane star of over 150 of the hottest porn flicks around is living on borrowed time it seems, in the twilight of a career riddled with drugs and alcoholism, she shows up drunk to the latest Linda Lix …Read More

Severed by Gary Fry contains some good ideas but the execution was lacking a little in certain areas. London is in the grip of a chemical weapon attack as a substance dubbed Agent Descartes is released in the capital. The effects of the weapon cause a severance in the body, separating the soul and leaving …Read More

Nightsiders by British author Gary McMahon is set in the Lake District where I’ve holidayed many times, intriguing and certainly grabbed my attention immediately. The Mitchell family bought a house in the Lakes and then went on holiday with the intention of fully moving in on their return, it’s a new start for the family …Read More

I had high expectations with The Three after seeing some of the excellent reviews and why not this was a major release, but in the end was left feeling well, absolutely nothing. The story didn’t hold my attention in any way except the last 50 pages, by then I’d almost given up twice and was …Read More

Succulent Prey is an insanely fast paced gruesome killfest, containing some of the most graphic descriptions of a cannibalistic killer I’ve read, all the killings go hand in hand with a sexual appetite that well … just isn’t right. Joe, our protagonist was kidnapped and just a little bit tortured in his childhood. He believes …Read More

Deadlift is a weightlifting term that refers to the action of lifting a weight from the floor to a standing position, gripping a bar. That’s the opening line from this excellent novella from American publisher Darkfuse and British author Craig Saunders but don’t fear, there’s no sweaty participants labouring in a gym in this story, …Read More

Not for the faint hearted Kin is an emotional gut wrenching ride into the minds of the abused, those seeking retribution and a cannibalistic redneck family that hunt and kill people. You won’t find more of a hard hitting, brutal and compelling opening than the image of Claire, severely tortured both mentally and physically, running …Read More

PORN is a seriously addictive read, one you will not be able to put down. Disturbing just doesn’t quite cover a story that seems to be going in just the direction your head and heart need it to go, only to pull the chair away just as you’re about to sit down and buckle in …Read More

Simon Kurt Unsworth’s new dark and savage thriller, The Devils Detective is a searing vision of hell, dark and dirty, man living with demon, forever hoping for ascendancy, hard work, rife with prostitution and murder. A true land of sin, almost a free for all, with no thought for consequence. The only form of repercussion …Read More

Sunblind is another thriller which skirts into psychological horror and with Michael McBride you just know you’re going to get a book that encompasses microscopic attention to detail and levels of research that are sometimes staggering. Sunblind gives us two protagonists the first and main character is Mayra Visari, who pays a large sum of …Read More