News — September 2020

Benefits of Reading Horror

We always hear about the benefits of reading. Reading helps to decrease anxiety, depression, improve vocabulary and prevent cognitive decline (i.e. Alzheimer’s). These are the benefits we’ve heard all our lives. Most people read books for these reasons alone but what makes horror so special or unique. What are the benefits we can gain from reading horror? I found an article that promotes teachers to include horror in their curriculums (Teaching Horror Literature in a Multicultural Classroom). If someone has written...

“An Apology (of Sorts) from the Doldrums”

A dispatch from the apocalypse from Ronald Malfi 

Ah, good children: We are here, together, in the thick of it, staring at our quaking palms, sweating, casting sideways glances at a darkening sky, suddenly distrustful of the crude proximity of our fellow humans. Are we all going to die? Yes; eventually. Soon? Some of us, yes. You or me in particular? Hell, anything’s possible. But maybe not likely.

This, friends, is a dispatch from a universal Ground Zero, an S.O.S. flare-gun burst charging through...

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Side By Side Book Review: RECALL NIGHT by Alan Baxter

RECALL NIGHT by Alan Baxter

Publisher: Grey Matter Press

𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 follows Eli Carver. Eli is hiding in Canada following the events of 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭. When he returns to the States, he meets Bridget, a mysterious woman, on the subway that gets him deep with another mobster. ⁣Bridget owes a mob boss named Paul Lombardi 40K and she hires Eli to be her bodyguard during the...

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