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Book Review: NEGATIVE SPACE Edited by Aric Sundquist

Book Review: NEGATIVE SPACE Edited by Aric Sundquist

Negative Space: Anthology of Survival horror.

The publisher is Dark Peninsula Press and this is their debut release.
It came out on June 16th
Negative Space, from Dark Peninsula Press is an anthology of survival horror. What you ask, is survival horror? Well, it’s a term coined from ps1 era games such as resident evil. It’s about atmosphere, dread, scavenging supplies. Hoping to hell that last bullet takes down that...


BOOK REVIEW: DEVOLUTION by Max Brooks- The Horror Hypothesis

BOOK REVIEW: DEVOLUTION by Max Brooks- The Horror Hypothesis

DEVOLUTION by Max Brooks

Review by The Horror Hypothesis


“They all want to live ‘in harmony with nature’ before some of them realize, too late, that nature is anything but harmonious” -Max Brooks 


I've been mired in a prolonged reading slump over the past few months.  Besides ARC’s and the occasional short story, most of my pleasure reads have fallen completely flat.  I know I'm far from alone in this slump - this year has kicked most of us into some form...


Cardboard Terror: The Top 10 Horror Board Games by Matt Redmon

Cardboard Terror: The Top 10 Horror Board Games by Matt Redmon

Cardboard Terror

Top 10 Horror Board Games


Horror is our happy place. Let’s take a short break from books to talk about another way to get your horror fix. Board games aren’t just Monopoly and Scrabble any more. If you haven’t played a board game since you were a kid, you really are missing out on some great fun. So grab some friends and gather around a table with some snacks and get ready to get scared with...


Book Review: A COMPLEX ACCIDENT OF LIFE by Jessica McHugh

Book Review: A COMPLEX ACCIDENT OF LIFE by Jessica McHugh

Zakk Madness reviews A Complex Accident of Life by Jessica McHugh published by Apokrupha June 24, 2020.

 
Blackout
 
Blackout. Deconstruction
        A calculated obstruction 
  forming
A Complex Accident
rebirth 
         flesh vs. word 
brief but powerful 
the weight of a sledgehammer brings 
   scribbles, doodles and patterns
carries 
 another heart hidden inside,
the moment
     may not appreciate 
A Complex Accident
                of a beautiful moment
...


La Belle Ajar Companion Essay for Night Worms by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda

La Belle Ajar Companion Essay for Night Worms by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda

The Other Side of Sylvia Plath

By Adrian Ernesto Cepeda


While I was crafting the cento poems that became La Belle Ajar, I felt like I was communing with Sylvia Plath. As I wrote in the afterword of my poetry collection. Sylvia Plath once said, “I want someone to mouth me.” When I started this cento project that is what I did. For hours at a time, I could feel Sylvia’s timelessly evocative voice speaking to me in...