Reviews and Critique

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Critical Thoughts on Thomas Ligotti’s fiction

a tremulous tenor in the choir of sleeping grotesques“: on Songs of a Dead Dreamer

opening the voice box“: on Grimscribe

if all the world’s a stage, where’s the proscenium arch?“: on Teatro Grottesco


Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, by Keith Rosson, reviewed November 2024. Posted to Goodreads.

All We Want is Everything, by Andrew F. Sullivan, reviewed February 2022. Posted to Goodreads.

Rules of the Road, by CB Jones; reviewed January 2022. Posted to Goodreads.

The Art of the Knock: Stories, by Philip Graham; reviewed December 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

Jagannath: Stories, by Karin Tidbeck; reviewed December 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories, by Robert Aickman; reviewed December 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

Bloodlines: Four Tales of Familial Fear, by Chris O’Halloran et al., reviewed December 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

The Open Curtain, by Brian Evenson, reviewed August 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

Skullcrack City, by Jeremy Robert Johnson, reviewed August 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

In the House in the Dark of the Woods, by Laird Hunt, reviewed August 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

Appleseed, by Matt Bell, reviewed July 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination, by Wallace Stevens; reviewed July 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

Heartfelt Horrors: Nine Stories, by Michael Sellars; reviewed July 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

Incarnations: Three Plays, by Clive Barker; reviewed June 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

A Course in Demonic Creativity, by Matt Cardin; reviewed March 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

The Weird and the Eerie, by Mark Fisher; reviewed March 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

The One That Got Away (Women in Horror Anthology 3), Jill Girardi, ed., Kandisha Press; reviewed February 2021. Posted to Goodreads.

The Loop, by Jeremy Robert Johnson; reviewed October 2020. Posted to Goodreads.