All Hail the House Gods by Andrew J. Stone Review by Shane Douglas Keene In this edition of “What the Hell Did I Just Read” I take on the sophomore work of […]
Of House Gods and Aphrodisiacs
Shane Keene
A book reviewer, author, columnists, and musician living in Portland, OR.
The Women We Should Be Writing – by Renee Miller
The Women We Should Be Writing By Renee Miller Until I focused on writing speculative fiction, I never thought about my gender. Never identified myself as a “female” writer. I didn’t […]
Unreliable Noir – by Alan Baxter
Until recently–literally just a few days ago–I’d not read the work of Alan Baxter. I’ve had his novel Hidden City waiting in my review queue for quite some time but haven’t gotten […]
Coming Soon from Alan Baxter and Grey Matter Press
To say that I’m excited to hear another Alan Baxter release, this time a full-length novel, is coming from Grey Matter Press would be an understatement at best. I just finished his […]
Darkly Dreaming: Ten Amazing Female Horror Authors
Though we focus on all different varieties of dark genre fiction on Ink Heist, it’s no stretch of the imagination to say that our first literary love is horror, and we’ll be […]
My Monster: A Short Film by Izzy Lee
My Monster: Written and Directed by: Izzy Lee Starring: Brea Grant, Steve Johansen, and Adam Egypt Mortimer Length: 8 mins I think it was just last year I had my first experience […]
Taking Death Away from the Undead by Jeaneen K. Kish
Taking Death Away from the Undead: The Metamorphosis of the Vampire from Folklore to Now If as Dale Townshend argues in his essay “Gothic and the Ghost of Hamlet” that the gothic […]
Brass Knuckles: Five Hard-Hitting Crime Novels for Summer
One of our favorite things here at Ink Heist is well written dark crime, especially that which is penned with literary voice and flavorings of neo-noir. And summertime seems a perfectly well-suited […]
Michael Griffin’s The Human Alchemy
Michael Griffin is one of those new-to-me authors that became and immediate go-to choice for me last year when I read his first collection from Word Horde, THE LURE OF DEVOURING LIGHT […]
Book Review: The Mortuary Monster by Andrew J. Stone
Death. The most mortifying of subjects, the final rodeo, ultimate loss of self and identity. The end. For most of us it’s a terrifying concept, one that fills us with dread and […]
