NIGHTMARE ASYLUM & OTHER DEADLY DELIGHTS Sonia Kilvington This collection of stories is shot through with a gothic ambience of darkness, disease and madness in the clinical sense. From its opening story death is always close by, reading to lay a cold hand on someone’s neck. The tales seldom wander far from the haunted corridors…
Tag: Women in Horror Month
Thoughts Right Now
Fifteen hundred years right here Oh, burning witches, burning books Burning babies in their looks Yes, indeed Burning everything that’s sacred in my genes It’s a tough week for a lot of women you know, whether you know it or not. Maybe they’ve shared their horror stories with you: maybe you have some yourself. I…
Black Room Manuscripts 4 Cover Reveal
Whilst I was traipsing around the South in that wretched heat, news broke of this fabulous collection I’ll be part of (thanks to Tracy): There’s even a trailer: Out this October! Spooky nights ahead…
Out Now: Madonna of the Wasps 5 #WiHM
What better way to wrap up Women in Horror Month? The final chapter of The Blood Red Experiment is out now! Read the exciting conclusion of Madonna of the Wasps and all the gialli in this collection. The breakneck pace whips along to the unexpected end — how will all the threads be brought together? It’s a…
Horror, The Fall & other news
Out now: Over on the Fox Spirit Books blog I get to kick off Women of Horror month with a piece on The Haunting of Hill House, one of the finest novels ever written. Go read it (my piece and the novel). I have a piece ‘The Three Rs’ over at 3AM Magazine. I had written for…
The Blood Red Experiment: Part 4
It’s Women in Horror month so apropos that the penultimate part of my neo-giallo Madonna of the Wasps has just come out — the final part will wrap up this auspicious month. Murder, mayhem, ancient rites and a legendary prima ballerina all fit together somehow in the homage to Dario Argento, Mario Bava and of course,…
Women in Horror Month
Oh, the bonanza of Women in Horror Month! So many riches — Maura McHugh’s Water Helen S. Grant’s reading of Lilith’s Story and her co-production with her son, A Playmobil Warning to the Curious Lynda E. Rucker’s The House on Cobb Street A quartet of ladies from The Dark Magazine Peg Aloi on the remake…