Shroud Magazine Book Reviews

Too often "dark fiction" is a cipher for stories about the meaningless of life - that it's empty and devoid of purpose, and ...

Lions and tigers and bears?  Hell, no! What’s really interesting about this exemplary collection from Robert Shearman is that most of th...

The town of Stillwater, Maryland is a tiny hamlet, surrounded by the Allegheny Mountains, where it gets dark much earlier than anywhere el...

What would you say if, in your hour of greatest need, you were offered a twelve-month job on the secluded tropical island of Meditrine, wh...

Bloodblind is the first in a trilogy that pulls the reader in with a unique, evocative and powerful voice. The suspense is reminiscent of...

Every House is Haunted   by Ian Rogers is nothing less than a brilliant short story collection, exploring the area between the world we kn...

An artifact, closely guarded by the Navajo mystics for ages is stolen by an unscrupulous psychopath, Max, who is prepared to use it to cre...