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 […]
The Women We Should Be Writing – by Renee Miller
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 […]
Book Review: Stirring the Sheets by Chad Lutzke
When it comes to horror fiction, I love it all. Stories that deal with the supernatural, cosmic horror, monsters, and everything in between. The thrill I get reading these stories is why […]
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 […]
Horror Fiction: A Bleak and Depressing Look at Truth by Greg Chapman
Today’s guest post comes from horror author Greg Chapman, who recently released Pandemonium through the incredible Bloodshot Books. Greg’s essay deals with why his work may considered bleak or depressing and the importance of […]
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 […]
