"Life is horror and fantasy, not necessarily in that order."
After winning the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel in April, The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah Read added another honor in 2020, winning Novel of the Year at This Is Horror Awards 2019. Released by Trepidatio Publishing in February 2019, Read's debut is touted by Bird Box author Josh …
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(Editor’s note: DOUBLE FEATURE is a column where I read at least two horror books per month in 2020 and review them for my website.) July’s DOUBLE FEATURE: Dust by Chris Miller and Murder House by C.V. Hunt. Dust Billed as Book 3 in a Splatter Western series by Death's Head Press, Dust by Chris …
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Christine Morgan and Wesley Southard won top honors for their books published by Deadite Press at the 2020 Splatterpunk Awards, according to a press release by award founders Wrath James White and Brian Keene. The 2020 Splatterpunk Awards honored superior achievement in the literary sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror for works published in 2019. …
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Books by Kacen Callender, Alix E. Harrow, Ann Leckie, Tamsyn Muir, and Yoko Ogawa are nominated for World Fantasy Awards in the Novel category. The World Fantasy Convention announced the final ballot along with the two Lifetime Achievement winners for the 2020 World Fantasy Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in fantasy fiction published in 2019. …
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Sonora Taylor won two major categories and received two more honorable mentions for her short fiction in the inaugural Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards. Taylor's novel, Without Condition, shared Best Novel with Mona Awad's Bunny. Taylor also won Best Collection for Little Paranoias. Two stories from that collection, "Quadrapocalypse" and "Weary Bones," received Honorable Mentions …
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(Editor’s note: I moved from an apartment into a house starting January 1st, 2020, and I had to toss all my CDs into a big garbage bag during the move. The idea for this feature is I write a review about each CD as I unpack that bag, one CD at a time, and rank …
Five years ago today, the world lost Larry Ray Green of Arab, Alabama. I called him Dad. It was the worst day of my life, but I got to say goodbye to him as he was surrounded by all his loved ones. Gone but never forgotten, Dad still inspires me every day. I keep his …
Sarah Rose Etter's debut novel, The Book of X, won the top honor at the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards. The winners were announced July 12th in a 20-minute pre-recorded video released by the Shirley Jackson Awards. You can watch the video at the awards website HERE. The winners in the other five categories were: NOVELLA: Ormeshadow …
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(Editor’s note: Here’s an exceptional blog post by horror author Priscilla Bettis that is loaded with brief, substantive book reviews. Perfect for readers on the go! — Lionel Ray Green)
This past quarter was such a fabulicious three months for reading! (Mostly horror, but other stuff, too.) Can you believe I have X, Y, and Z authors? I’m aiming to keep each review whittled down to one sentence. Here we go…
I’m Tired of Being Ordinary, Are You? by Wm. Allen. Allen’s blog is about current topics, books, and films, and is so thought-provoking that I just had to read his book, and I found his self-improvement book to be motivating and entertaining with jokes and movie selections as it presented a focal point for each week of the year.
Frightful by Stephen Barnard. This collection of Christmas stories is all horror (clever, creepy, or gory), all fun, and would make an excellent Christmas gift for the horror fan (even for dear mom because Barnard manages to keep the stories rather clean).
Colony of the Lost by Derik…
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On Monday, I released my sixth short story on Amazon Kindle. Titled "Dead of Winter," the story is a super-quick read about a man in a van who happens upon a stranded female motorist on a country road during a wintry afternoon. "Dead of Winter" dramatizes the sometimes nerve-racking game played between a man and …
