#DemainDecember: House of Wrax – Dane Raven – Review

“The House of Wrax really is a fantastic novella that I had a blast reading – I’m tempted to label it as something akin to ‘Mad Max meets Game of Thrones’, but that seems to do Dane a dis-service. Her novella dips into a number of different genres and subgenres and pulls together a number of seemingly disparate concepts, tropes and characterisations – 1980’s Nuclear Armageddon films, feudal dynasties, eugenics, racism, sexism and classism – to create something fresh and vibrant”

Gabriel’s Trumpet – Jon Black – Review

“…It features rich, smooth, Jazz-like language that engages and captivates, appealing protagonists and antagonists, and a central mystery that is deeply and often gleefully ambiguous about its central tenets; and not to forget the racially and class-charged atmosphere of America on the cusp of the Great Depression, intertwining supernatural chills with the far more horrifying and very human atrocities and discrimination taking place in the USA at the time. All of this – and far, far more – make Gabriel’s Trumpet a triumph for both Jon Black and 18thWall Productions…”

Dead Sky – Weston Ochse – Review

“… those experiences are the heart of Dead Sky and what makes it such a remarkable and unforgettable novel – one which has built upon its predecessor in every possible way, and therefore done what I thought impossible: surpassed it as the pinnacle of Military Horror. Dead Sky to me is not just a good novel, or a great novel – it is vital reading for anyone who wishes to read or write in the Military Horror genre, or indeed the Horror genre as a whole…”