The Ancestors – L.A. Banks, Brandon Massey and Tananarive Due

This trio of stories from African American authors doesn’t exactly deal with the sins of the fathers but focuses, instead, on their legacies -those who come after, and their methods of making sense of the past.  Every person, every family, every country has dark moments that they have tried to bury under the weight of…

The Grin of the Dark

© 2007 by Ramsey Campbell — Tor Books Let’s face it: clowns are terrifying.  It’s not just the makeup, the costumes or the unpredictability; it’s the gleeful way clowns indulge in near-sadistic slapstick shenanigans and then laugh hysterically at their own antics.  The horror genre teems with evil or killer clowns, and any horror buff…

Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance

The plot is simple, and familiar: an Evil Madman rides into a small town with a pack of berserkers and they wreak bloody havoc on the citizenry. In D. Harlan Wilson’s hands, this simple and familiar plot becomes something utterly bizarre, wickedly satirical, and downright hilarious.