“With Moonlight, Gunshot, Mallet, Flame, Alicia Hilton has succeeded in creating two memorable, gritty and quietly unsettling horror stories that both involve dangerous and formidable women involved with the occult and the supernatural. Each of them, especially the titular story, have a dark, brooding atmosphere that perfectly encapsulates that noir feeling that countless authors attempt to portray in genre fiction and yet so many fail to comprehend. They’re both deftly written, as well as featuring two well-developed and fleshed-out female protagonists that avoid the usual noir stereotypes, and Hilton also manages to pull off some twists that I definitely didn’t see coming.”

“Hand to Mouth is a brilliantly written and skilfully-plotted horror story that reveals more and more of itself the longer that you read. What seem to be the passionately-written pleas of a man wrongly imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit slowly becomes a multi-layered horror story focusing on the often devastating results of the anxieties that are inflicted on a family living in modern times.”

“I think that Crowded House & Other Stories might be one of the entries in the Short, Sharp, Shocks! imprint that I enjoyed the most, and which truly resonated with me as a piece of horror fiction. All three stories in the collection are superbly written, perfectly paced, and most importantly imbued with a deeply unsettling, almost existential form of horror – the kind that seeps into you and gets under your skin and won’t let you go for a long while afterward finishing them.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed Last Meal in Osaka and Other Stories and found it to be a short collection of varied, imaginative and coldly horrifying stories that deftly demonstrated Gary Buller’s skill as a writer of horror fiction…”

“Heart of Stone is a powerful piece of short horror fiction, raising some thought-provoking questions…”

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“…it has a sense of following in the same vein as legendary authors like M.R. James…”

“I found A Monster Met to be a well-written, smoothly-paced and hugely enjoyable short slice of horror fiction…”

“Engaging, thought-provoking and challenging in equal measures, Every Moon Atrocious may have left me confused and uncertain of what had occurred when I finished reading it, but I would argue that is where its genius actually lies”

“Martin Richmond has highlighted his obvious skill as a horror writer, demonstrating his ability to write in a variety of styles and subgenres, and crafting stories that all featuring cunning twists and stings in their tails”

“Monster Beach is an enjoyable slice of surreal, weird fantasy with an underlying and integral element of horror…”

“Honestly, I still don’t quite know what I read when I finished The Stranger and the Ribbon, but I know that it was incredibly weird, deeply unsettling at times, and occasionally gory with a very dark sense of humour – and most importantly, I want more of it, as soon as possible…”