“My life appeared strange because it was one way and not another. Only if it had been every possibility at once would it have not appeared strange. And that is what I am now: every possibility at once. And nothing is strange.”

A look at B. Diehl's debut poetry collection.

"...a flawed but entertaining sci-fi page-turner."

Leza Cantoral's debut collection, Cartoons in the Suicide Forest, contains a wide variety of stories, but most of them are marked by a gleeful, technicolor insanity. If Lisa Frank and Shintaro Kago collaborated on a comic series, these are…

“And yes, of course, three to four a.m. is the witching hour, the hour of darkness, the hour of the wolf, the single hour of every day when demons can come out to play, when the spirit world touches our own.” Hour of the Wolf is a cycle of…

Jonathan Wind is a policeman working in Atlanta, Georgia. He's dating Monica, a strict Catholic girl, but has been seeing another girl on the side named Flora, a prostitute who practices a form of neo-paganism. When Flora mysteriously dies,…

Zeb is a train-hopping vagabond with the words “FUCK SOCIETY” tattooed on his forehead. After losing several of his supplies, he's forced to stay a short time in a small town. There he meets Natty, a biracial girl with a deep interest in…

Mike Auburn is addicted to thrill seeking, engaging in stunts that bring him close to death. He doesn't just do it for the adrenaline rush, bringing himself close to death enables him to see into the afterlife. His abilities attract the…

The other day when I was in Starbucks, Christmas music was playing. That's not at all unusual for this time of year, but I wasn't in there for even half an hour and I heard two awful renditions of “Little Drummer Boy.” I'll spare you a rant…

Stanley Donwood is probably best known as the “in house” artist for Radiohead. He's designed nearly all of the artwork for both Radiohead and Thom Yorke's solo works since 1994 when he designed the cover for the My Iron Lung single. Donwood…

As the title implies, this is a collection of poems based on horror films. They cover classic films from Friday the 13th to contemporary films like The VVitch. Each of the poems is illustrated by Joel Amat Guell. “I don't know...maybe a…

“Creepypasta” is the name for short, often anonymously written, horror stories that got their name for being copy and pasted around online communities like 4chan and reddit. MrCreepyPasta, who runs a popular youtube channel of the same name…

Martin Stone, a popular radio shock jock, and his whole crew are one of the lucky few who have survived the zombie apocalypse. They've continued the show in the compound they're holed up in, providing help to fellow survivors and working to…

In March of this year, I published my first chapbook, the sky is black and blue like a battered child. I only submitted it to one press, and when they didn't accept it I decided to self-publish it. I thought about shopping it around more,…

When Deadite Press sent me this book, I had trouble finding any information on this book or on Cooper in general. The only thing I could find was that Answers of Silence was originally published as a limited edition hardcover in 2012 with…

If you've been following my reviews, you'll notice I haven't reviewed any books from a mainstream press for Cultured Vultures. I have done reviews of mainstream books on other sites, but the vast majority of what I review have been…

A girl's shoes go missing. Then she goes missing. Her boyfriend tries to find her, gives up, but then tries again. Eventually, he finds himself thrown into a prison. “He can feel Satan in the earth below Him directly under His feet. On a…

In order to control the population, the government has divided the population into two factions, the murderous Slashers and their targets the Finals. Jason Vorheesberg, a dorky Jewish boy, is a failure as a Slasher. He has no stomach for…

Now that October is here, you'll likely be looking for some good horror books to read. Of course, there are so many out there, it can be difficult to know where to start. So here are a 13 recommendations for you. From the literary…

If you're interested in reviewing books, whether for publications, for your own blog, or just for Amazon and Goodreads, you'll, of course, need to get copies of books to review. You can always buy books to review, but many authors and…