Monthly Archives: January 2022

Roth-Steyr by Simon Bestwick was first published by Black Shuck Books in October 2020 as one of their Signature Novellas. It’s just been reissued with a brand new cover design, as have most of the Signature range. Okay, to get … Continue reading →

Okay, probably the best S&G cover version ever, and a damned fine video.

I read fifty short story collections in 2021. Written by David Surface and published by Black Shuck Books in 2020, terrible things was my favourite. Surface is a master of misdirection and juggling disparate plot strands, often strands that don’t … Continue reading →

Originally published in 2018 by Black Shuck Books as part of their Signature Novellas line and just recently repackaged with a brand new cover, weighing in at 226 pages according to the publisher’s website, Dead Leaves by Andrew David Barker … Continue reading →

A prequel to the 2009 film.

I’d never heard of Josh Turner until I started searching for S&G covers. This is rather good, though I could have done without the advert at the end (but hey, that’s why we have a pause button, right?).

Published in 2018 by Black Shuck Books, New Music for Old Rituals by Tracy Fahey contains nineteen stories, nine of which appear in print for the first time. The collection fits rather neatly into the folk horror subgenre and most … Continue reading →

The new film from Guillermo del Toro.

Published by Black Shuck Books in 2018 as part of their Signature Novellas range, The Three Books is the first time, at least as far as I can recall, that I have encountered the work of Paul StJohn Mackintosh. The … Continue reading →

David Bowie sings America.