“The cover art is gorgeous, the editing top-notch, and the anthology has so many stories that stand out for a variety of reasons, not least because of the variety and high level of quality on display…”
Tag: Horror
Revelation: A World at War – Dark War – Mark H. Walker – Review
“there’s some impressive world-building and imaginative thinking going on, allied with an increasingly tense atmosphere as the fighting goes and the more explicit occult elements become involved…”
Hell Ship – Benedict J. Jones – Review
“A fascinating blend of military and occult horror – and with an ending that hints towards a move into alternate history-based horror – Hell Ship is a title that I can highly recommend…”
Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From The Road – D. Alexander Ward (Ed.) – Review
“Another brilliant anthology from Crystal Lake Publishing, Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From The Road is a title that the publisher, editor, illustrators and authors should be extremely proud to be involved in…
The Thing in the Vault – David Hambling – Review
“The Thing in the Vault is a fantastic piece of hard-boiled detective fiction, perfectly blended with Lovecraftian creatures and threaded through with cosmic horror, and definitely left me wanting more…”
Bond Unknown – Neil Baker (Ed.) – Review
“If the Fleming estate, and all others involved in licensing Bond fiction, had any sense then they would immediately license April Moon Books to produce further titles in the genre. I can only hope that, if the stars align correctly, we will see further stories published….”
The Elder Ice – David Hambling – Review
“The Elder Ice is a brilliant achievement by David Hambling, rich with atmosphere and a keen eye for characterisation…”
Terror in 16-Bits – Jonathan Raab (Ed.) – Review
“It’s a deeply enjoyable anthology, with some fantastic cover art, and I’m a Good Person, I Mean Well, and I Deserve Better by J.R. Hamantaschen and The Drunkard’s Dream by Orrin Grey are the two star stories of the anthology; they are both brutal, haunting pieces of horror fiction, both deeply personal in their own ways, even transgressive at times, and these two alone justify purchasing the anthology.”
North Sea Hunters – Brad Harmer-Barnes – Review
“North Sea Hunters is another winning title from Mr Harmer-Barnes – full of tension, atmosphere and blood-spattered action, allied with excellent writing and a well-researched narrative…”
Lost Films – Max Booth III & Lori Michelle (Eds.) – Review
“If Lost Films represents the general quality of horror fiction that Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing are submitting to the marketplace, then I believe they have a very bright future in front of them…”
Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes – J.R.Campbell & Charles Prepolec (Eds.) – Review
“…including stories that provide moments of genuine horror, frank interrogations of the nature of gothic fiction and Sherlock Holmes as a character, and some genuinely unnerving endings. If only all Sherlock Holmes anthologies could be of this quality….”
Xinners – Wayne Simmons – Review
“Unabashedly pulpy, deftly written with some impressive world-building, and featuring enough blood, gore, zombies and action scenes to satisfy any reader in the horror or undead genres, I cannot recommend Xinners enough…”
Welcome To The Show: 17 Horror Stories – One Legendary Venue – Doug Murano & Matt Hayward (eds.) – Review
“Deserving to be on the shelf of any discerning horror fan, Welcome To The Show might just be the best anthology that Crystal Lake Publishing have ever published, and highlights just how much of a mark the publisher is making on the genre…”
Vietnam Black – Brad Harmer-Barnes – Review
“A brilliantly evocative cover, a simple but engrossing plot that draws the reader in, characters that are deftly written to actually make them interesting to the reader, and an antagonistic creature that is genuinely terrifying, all come together to make an excellent, first-rate novella…”
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