Author Archives: Sheri White

Book Review: Detritus – Editors S.S. Michaels | Kate Jonez

Posted on 05/16/2012 by Sheri White
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Detritus, Edited by S.S. Michaels and Kate Jonez

I’m a big fan of anthologies, and always look forward to new ones. Anthologies were big in the 80s, and I have a bunch on my shelf. They seem to be making a comeback; I’ve been seeing a lot of calls for submissions for anthologies recently, and that’s great.

Detritus is an okay anthology, not great. There are no bad stories; however, a lot of the tales… More

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Book Review: The Scarecrow and The Madness – Authors Craig Saunders and Robert Essig

Posted on 01/18/2012 by Sheri White
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The Scarecrow and The Madness

Craig Saunders’s The Scarecrow takes the usual creepy scarecrow story and gives it a deliciously violent twist. After the police pay a call to Madge and Bernie Rochette to let them know gypsies would be in town camping in a distant neighbor’s field, the couple finds their life turned upside down. Although Madge wasn’t too worried about the visitors, Bernie makes sure he has his shotgun to protect them from… More

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Book Review: Ghost Prints – Authors Jason Gehlert, Tammy Gehlert, Robert Milby

Posted on 10/25/2011 by Sheri White
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Ghost Prints by Jason Gehlert, Tammy Gehlert and Robert Milby
Ghost Prints is a collection of short stories by Jason Gehlert. There are also a couple of stories and poems by Tammy Gehlert and Robert Milby; however, this review will just concentrate on Jason Gehlert’s contributions.

“The Woodsman” is the first story in the book. A group of teens wandering through the woods happen upon a cabin and take shelter from the cold. But they… More

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Book Review: Twitch – Author Thomas Scopel

Posted on 06/25/2011 by Sheri White

TWITCH

In a dark and gloomy bar, T. Roberts McBaily, a carnival owner known to his employees as McB, waits for a man who will take his money in return for a new sideshow attraction for McB’s carnival. The attraction, a small, baby-like person with no limbs and a pure-white eye caught McB’s attention at a different carnival when he was eighteen. He hasn’t been able to get the poor creature, Twitch, out of his… More

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Book Review: Slay Bells Ringing – Edited by Jeff Chitty

Posted on 04/03/2011 by Sheri White

SLAY BELLS RINGING

Slay Bells Ringing is an anthology of Christmas-themed horror stories, most of which were written by first-time published authors. This is definitely not an anthology for children to read; quite a few of the stories were extremely violent or contained explicit sexual situations.

Although some of the stories were good, the editing of this anthology needed a lot of work. Every story had typos, spelling and grammatical errors, and some even had… More

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