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Book Review: DEAD AWAKE 12 Tales of Darkness From The New Generation of Horror
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Book Review: THE GREEN KANGAROOS by Jessica McHugh
*Editors note: THE GREEN KANGAROOS was included in our February 2020 "Horror Addiction" package
“The Green Kangaroos” by Jessica McHugh, like any addiction horror, is about feelings. Some authors explore feelings of grief and loss, others explore body horror or the supernatural. McHugh explores desperation, but gives it a twist by exploring it from different perspectives.
“The Green Kangaroos” is a dystopian novel set in 2099 Baltimore. Being local to the...
Side by Side Book Reviews: Short Stories by Jamie Stewart
Our Night Worms Group Chat is where we all enable each other to buy more books we couldn't possibly have time to read. Once someone comes into the chat excited about the latest amazing book they just finished, the rest of us have to have it. The quickest way to turn heads in the chat is to drop a line like, "I just read the sickest book I've ever read."
Within an hour, everyone will have purchased the "sick" book and already be halfway through reading it. We're a weird bunch.
In October, one of us was reading a short...
Author Interview: Mark Matthews
Night Worm Reviewer, Beth Griffith interviewed Mark Matthews for Night Worms
Are you a fan of Mark Matthews? Well, I am! I am much too antisocial to make an actual fan club, but I put aside my crippling anxiety and epic awkwardness to interview him and find out the juicy details on all the topics tumbling around in the back of my mind. Mark took my fan-girling in stride and sent back some truly insightful replies to my questions. (Please note: This interview has been edited for length.)
Side by Side Review: AWAKE: Tales of Terror by Lou Rera
Beth's Review...
This collection is a mere 201 pages, but Rera managed to pack 14 stories into this slim volume. The stories have a wide range of topics, but there are some interconnected stories, which is something I really like finding in a collection.
I didn’t dislike any of the stories (which is...