2024-09-15 08:00:30 By Tom Joyce As a novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, playwright, and theater director, John Patrick Higgins has explored the art of story-telling from many different perspectives. In this month’s edition of Nuts & Bolts, he discusses the counterintuitive…
2024-09-14 08:10:42NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: EV Knight’s “The Flannigan Cure” from American Cannibal Reviewed by L. E. Daniels Disclaimer: An author and editor, I am not a mental health professional. Trigger warning: Addiction, grief, loss, animal death. Just before the COVID-19…
2024-09-12 08:10:19NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Dream’s End” by Henry Kuttner and Catherine Moore Reviewed by Kyla Lee Ward Short story first published in Startling Stories magazine, July 1947. Variously anthologised. Story link: TRIGGER WARNING: This review addresses mental health. In…
2024-09-10 08:10:39NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: The Grief Hole by Kaaron Warren Reviewed bv E.F. Schraeder Trigger Warning: This review addresses grief and trauma. A universal of all life, death touches everyone sooner or later. With inevitable losses follow forms of grief…
2024-09-08 08:10:32NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: Shards: A Mental Health Charity Anthology edited by Kara Hawkers and Emery Blake, RavensQuoth Press 2024. Reviewed by Stevie Morley Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental health. Edited by Kara Hawkers and Emery Blake with poetry…
2024-09-06 08:10:56NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “I’ll Be Gone By Then” by Eric LaRocca Iin The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales, published by Off Limits Press; also reprinted in The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories, published…
2024-09-04 08:10:51NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Survival Ritual” by John Edward Lawson In SuiPsalms, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2012 Reviewed by E.F. Schraeder Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental health and grief. At the midsection and heart of John Edward Lawson’s…
2024-09-02 08:10:58NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: Welcome to the Black Parade Song/Poem by My Chemical Romance (musical group) Reviewed by Kevin Kennel Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental illness and trauma. “Welcome to the Black Parade” is about death, memory, and transcendence…
2024-09-02 06:21:15Disclaimer: An author and editor, I am not a mental health professional. Trigger warning: Addiction, grief, loss, animal death. Holistic Horrors: EV Knight’s “The Flannigan Cure” from American Cannibal by L. E. Daniels Just before the COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol-related…
2024-08-31 03:42:03 From October 1 through October 31, the Horror Writers Association will host an online event to celebrate the month of Halloween and help horror readers and horror writers connect at the eeriest time of the year. All…
