The Whisper Man – by Alex North Outstanding debut thriller which will chill you to the bone I read Alex North’s debut novel over three tension-filled evenings, on the final night the […]
A Whisper at the Window
It Dances in the Shadows
A Primer on the Fiction of Adam Nevill By Tony Jones In previous contributions to Ink Heist, I have featured several of my favourite ever horror writers, including Robert McCammon and Scott […]
Science, History, and Apocalypse
The Migration by Helen Marshall Book Review by Tracy Robinson “Memory is a tricky thing. It isn’t a ruler, a hard, straight line…It isn’t neat and tidy. It’s more like murmurs, voices […]
Cinderella in Detroit
The Secret History of Detroit By Joanna Koch, contributing author to In Darkness, Delight: Masters of Midnight Cinderella stories capture the imagination because they tell of transformation. The American Cinderella, contorted by […]
When Smoke is a Mirror
Smoke City by Keith Rosson Book Review by Shane Douglas Keene I’ll confess that going into the book I’m talking about today, I was somewhat of a skeptic, as I tend to […]
Go Forth and Sin
Here I am again, talking about John F.D. Taff. I’ve talked so much about John over the last five or six years, you’d think I would have run out of things to […]
A World of Kinks
Because of the way Rich Duncan and I divided the intros to these posts completely randomly and with little thought, I’m delighted that one of mine turned to be this author. Richard […]
The Hazards of a Restless Spirit
I’m not going to get in the way too much here, but I do want to tell you of a couple reasons why you should be excited to know that dark fiction […]
An Exercise in Isolation
Terminal by Michaelbrent Collings Book Review by Shane Douglas Keene I’m sitting in a hospital, in an over-comfortable chair designed for old people, or broken ones like me. As I wait to […]
Once Upon a Nightmare
The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz Book Review by Shane Douglas Keene “Lucy reached up, fingered the sweaty fabric of the blindfold. “Mind if I take this off?” No […]
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