“Wicked Brew: Nine Tales of Misdeeds and Regrets” is an anthology of short stories by Allison M. Dickson, and it provides just what the title promises: entertaining tales full of characters doing very bad things, often to disturbing […]

Short stories really have a chance to shine in the horror genre, and the gems in Billie Sue Mosiman’s The Subway Collection do not disappoint—the four tales are atmospheric, surprising, and pack a visceral punch! In “Dark Reality,” […]

The Endlands is the first volume in a short horror story anthology featuring seventeen stories by twelve different authors. Many of the stories have a strong Twilight Zone feel, with unexpected endings and twists that will definitely shock […]

Shades: Eight Tales of Terror has a classic theme: ghost stories. As the author points out in the introduction, true, good-old-fashioned ghost stories have fallen by the wayside. Now, the horror section is often filled with books about […]

Joe Hart’s Midnight Paths: A Collection of Dark Horror is an anthology of ten short stories that span the range of horror, from the supernatural to the evil within seemingly ordinary people. In the opening story, “PCA,” Eric […]

David Fingerman’s Edging Past Reality: A Collection of Short Stories is a compilation of some previously published works and some new works, cleverly arranged into the stages of maturity: childhood, adulthood, middle age, and later in life. The […]

Carnival of Cryptids Anthology by Matt Posner is a horror anthology that captures, as one carnie in the book puts it, the “mystery and majesty of the world”—as well as this reader’s imagination! The book begins in the […]