Some Time Later: Fantastic Voyages Through Alternate Worlds edited by AJ Sikes, BJ Sikes, and Dover Whitecliff is an anthology of short stories from authors featured in Twelve Hours Later and Thirty Days Later. Three men discover the whereabouts of a vampire and a werewolf...

Without intending to disparage our contemporary writing world, I must observe that Silently in the Night by Clayton Graham harkens back well and fondly to the golden years of speculative short-story fiction collected from great masters like Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. In addition to clever...

Six Stories Up by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson is actually a captivating collection of five very short stories and one short novella. I cannot remember enjoying a collection as engaging as this one in a long time. What makes it so good is the realistic characterization,...

Short Stories IV: Fantasy & Sci-Fi is my second foray in the wonderful writings of Rich DiSilvio and to say I am impressed would be an understatement. He is a master of words; he chooses his words so wisely so that they have the best...

Spider Season by Billy Hanson is a compilation of short stories and (surprise!) three screenplays. Hanson delivers each piece accompanied by a cover-style illustration and, with the screenplays, a personal note on how they came about. Ten tales of horror in total, all narrated independently...

Seven Ghostly Spins by Patricia Bossano is a collection of brushes with the supernatural. With their basis in truth and legend, these are your worst nightmares realized. A theater with a ghost; a moonlit walk that leads to a nightmare; the legend of Flo...

Spontaneous Combustion Vol. II is a short fiction collection that features delectable and, at times, mouthwatering tales from a selection of writing talent, including Maxwell Reagan, Claudia Ionescu, et al. The composition of this collection came about in a very interesting way. The editors gave...

Bill Eckel’s Science Fiction Fantasies, Tales and Origins Volume 2, is a compilation of short stories. He tells stories of how humans evolved and where they came from. One of the stories was a bit different, as it was about a witch fighting a demon,...

Six Tales of Christmas by Jenny Twist is a collection of short stories, as the title suggests, themed around Christmas. Uncle Albert’s Christmas explores the dilemma faced by many elderly people who feel manipulated by their relatives, especially after their spouse has passed, when in...

Sweet, Sweet Stories, Some Sweeter than Others by Daniel Curzon is an eclectic anthology of short stories, where some are not actually ‘sweet,’ despite the title. Suffer the Little Children starts the collection, a story about a kind-hearted couple who are unable to bear children....