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From Below

Ghost Ship Blues Author: Darcy Coates Darcy Coates is best known for her haunted house stories . . . but when she steps outside of the ghostly confines of vine choked houses into her more creative works, she truly shines. I discovered Coates through Parasite, a sci-fi horror compilation of interrelated short stories that captured the nature of isolation and the slow dread of a villain that can literally wear your face, as in John Carpenter’s The Thing. In From Below, that otherworldly aura of isolation and abonnement truly shines.  A team of five divers, each in desperate situations, have accepted [...]

2023-03-05T12:00:28-07:00March 5th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

From a Buick 8

A Car, A Mystery, A Dark Legacy Author: Stephen King An odd man brings an old car into a gas station, asks for a fill-up, and disappears. The car sits there with a new tank of gas and no owner until the members of Troop D from the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Western Pennsylvania arrive to impound it. What they discover is unutterable, horrible, beautiful, and inexplicable, all in one. A mystery that will keep on taking for decades. The car – a beautiful Buick 8 – isn’t quite right. It’s a near perfect mimic of a car, but there [...]

2023-02-13T20:50:54-07:00February 13th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Black Mouth

Confronting the Childhood Boogeyman Author: Ronald Malfi Jamie Warren’s life is filled with wreckage: the effects of his long alcoholism, his estrangement from family, and a hometown that harbors a special hate for him. It is altogether too much, and just as he is starting to recover, a tragedy calls him back home. Back to his trusting, disabled brother, now alone, who needs him. Back to his childhood friends. Back to the consequences of what they did one summer. Black Mouth is compared to Stephen King’s classic It, and there are some surface similarities, from the weirdness of the supernatural menace [...]

2023-02-07T20:14:27-07:00February 7th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |
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