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 […]
Darkly Dreaming: Ten Amazing Female Horror Authors
Shane Keene
A book reviewer, author, columnists, and musician living in Portland, OR.
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 […]
Book Review: Kingdom of Teeth by Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason
When I first learned that the new novella Kingdom of Teeth was a thing, I was hesitant at first. When it comes to bizarro fiction, I’m a little bit gun shy as I’ve read […]
Shiloh by Philip Fracassi
When we think of weird cosmic horror there are a few authors that traditionally come to mind. Lovecraft, obviously, and if you’re well-read Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard and Robert W. […]
On the Road Again by John C. Foster
I have a bad habit. One of the curse/blessings of the writer is enjoying the act of writing. Not just of seeing their words on the page, of reading them and being […]
Placing Your Hand into the Void by Todd Keisling
I’m not going to say much by way of preface to this one. Todd Keisling’s words speak for themselves. They are heartfelt, achingly honest, and most of all, I think, important. Read […]
