I'm going to use this book for the Diverse Voices square because it features stories by Wrath James White & J F Gonzalez & quite a few ladies of horror fiction. Typically collections of these sorts are filled with old white fellas and this one has a decent balance of diverse voices - all considered....
Below, I mention how I liked each story and include a favorite quote: The Empty Chambers by Neil Gaiman A poem. Very creepy but I’d rather have read a Gaiman story. The Company You Keep by Steve Resnic Tem Walking among us are the members of a secret company. I don’t know what I took away from t...
Dark Screams: Volume Seven is obviously the 7th edition of the Dark Screams anthology. Containing six stories, the first and the last story made the collection for me. LIZARDMAN by Robert McCammonThe hunter or the hunted? Tonight is the night-- he can feel it -- and it ends one way or another. My se...
This is volume 7 in the Dark Screams series. The more of this series I read the more I love it. The book is a volume of 6 short stories by 6 authors, Robert McCammon, James Renner, Kaaron Warren, Brian Hodge, Bill Schweigart, and Mick Garris. If I had to choose my favorite I think it would have to b...
Extremely well written by a true master wordsmith, Worlds of Hurt nevertheless fell somewhat flat for me - especially through the opening three "short" tales which connect to one another in direct chronological order, and feature three characters that appear in all. In this way, Hodge develops his o...
Darius Thurman was one fight away from becoming the best boxer in the world. Now that Las Vegas is a dried up wasteland, he is changing his style. Not of his choice, however. As he evolves, his trainer at Nolan's Gym and a former commentator must try and figure out what is happing to Darius and keep...
In Worlds of Hurt, Brian Hodge, horror's "green thumb", has entered the garden where the myth trees grow, and from among the roots of many legends, he has cultivated his own tree, one that has borne very strange fruit...the Misbegotten Mythos.Woven into the history of our world, these collected tale...
For most of his childhood, Damien was shunned by his sinister mother in favor of his older half-brother. Decades later, Cameron shows up, wanting help. Will Damien help him?When I read the blurb saying this was HP Lovecraft meets Carl Sagan, I jumped on it since that's a pretty clever-sounding eleva...
Question: What do a nameless narrator, mutating bones, boxing, and a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas have in common?Answer: Brian Hodge's Without Purpose, Without Pity.A strongly written and interesting novella that nevertheless never really gets out of third gear, Without Purpose, Without Pity is a pecu...
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