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Dark Tide Horror Novellas #16
PsychoActive: Transformative Horror Novellas
Unleash the transformative power of horror with Transformative Horror Novellas, a chilling anthology that delves into the darkest recesses of the human psyche.
“Love is a Monstrous Death” by Ryan C. Thomas & Anthony The residents of Sunshine Spires, a dilapidated apartment building, are thrust into a nightmarish Valentine's Day party where survival means confronting sexually-charged parasites, mutated neighbors, and a relentless middle-manager.
“The Secret Eater” by Cody An Alaskan farming family discovers an addictive substance that triggers a catastrophic metamorphosis in their town, unleashing unspeakable dreams and bodily transformations.
“Black Rings” by Ed Kurtz follows an aspiring musician's quest to find her missing sister in a Connecticut red-light district, only to stumble upon a cryptic conspiracy lurking beneath the surface of a strip club and an hourly motel.
Discover the transformative horror of PsychoActive and embark on a journey through twisted narratives and spine-chilling suspense. Fans of Lovecraftian horror and dark fantasy will be captivated by these terrifying tales of metamorphosis and madness.
This anthology of horror novellas is perfect for fans of The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle, Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies by John Langan, and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Don't miss out on this gripping anthology—dive into the darkness today!
Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.
“Love is a Monstrous Death” by Ryan C. Thomas & Anthony The residents of Sunshine Spires, a dilapidated apartment building, are thrust into a nightmarish Valentine's Day party where survival means confronting sexually-charged parasites, mutated neighbors, and a relentless middle-manager.
“The Secret Eater” by Cody An Alaskan farming family discovers an addictive substance that triggers a catastrophic metamorphosis in their town, unleashing unspeakable dreams and bodily transformations.
“Black Rings” by Ed Kurtz follows an aspiring musician's quest to find her missing sister in a Connecticut red-light district, only to stumble upon a cryptic conspiracy lurking beneath the surface of a strip club and an hourly motel.
Discover the transformative horror of PsychoActive and embark on a journey through twisted narratives and spine-chilling suspense. Fans of Lovecraftian horror and dark fantasy will be captivated by these terrifying tales of metamorphosis and madness.
This anthology of horror novellas is perfect for fans of The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle, Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies by John Langan, and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Don't miss out on this gripping anthology—dive into the darkness today!
Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.
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260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 28, 2024
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June 20, 2024
Dark Tide 16 will be published next week and I enjoyed my early copy.
Psychoactive contains three grisly novellas in one gruesome book.
In Love is a Monstrous Death A dishonorably discharged veteran who enjoyed killing just a tad more than normal, along with other residents of an apartment building. take part in an experiment on how to love your enemy, If you're into body horror you'll love this one.
Next up, a farming family finds that secrets are sometimes better kept when they unleash their special wine after their father dies in The Secret Eater. Body horror and folk horror combined made this one my favorite.
A young woman goes above and beyond to discover what happened to her missing sister in Black Rings. What she uncovers is an eldritch horror she may not escape from.
If you like your horror on the brutal and bloodthirsty side this is for you.
My thanks to Crystal Lake Publishing
Psychoactive contains three grisly novellas in one gruesome book.
In Love is a Monstrous Death A dishonorably discharged veteran who enjoyed killing just a tad more than normal, along with other residents of an apartment building. take part in an experiment on how to love your enemy, If you're into body horror you'll love this one.
Next up, a farming family finds that secrets are sometimes better kept when they unleash their special wine after their father dies in The Secret Eater. Body horror and folk horror combined made this one my favorite.
A young woman goes above and beyond to discover what happened to her missing sister in Black Rings. What she uncovers is an eldritch horror she may not escape from.
If you like your horror on the brutal and bloodthirsty side this is for you.
My thanks to Crystal Lake Publishing
June 13, 2024
This book contains three awesome novellas which are plenty terrifying, goopy body horror and all, while also telling great stories.
The first one takes place in a crappy cheap apartment building where the residents are unwitting test subjects for something alien. When they're locked in, things are going to get horrifically gory as they begin changing and morphing into visceral creatures, willing to do rather disgusting things to each other and any non infected person they come across. It's a tremendously gruesome body horror novella that you don't want to read while eating!
The second is more subtle but has body horror elements mixed with a folk horror vibe. When the grown children come back to a farm after the death of their father, they decide to keep the farm going by harvesting an extremely poisonous weed and distilling it into a sort of moonshine. This drink will transform people after awhile into barely recognisable creatures who will do anything for another bottle. Even the siblings aren't immune. But they have to keep going in order to please something that lives on their land and demands sacrifice.
The last novella has a cosmic horror feel to it as something of legend lives in the hidden tunnels underneath a strip bar in a seedy part of town. When a woman goes looking for her missing sister, she's going to accidentally discover the secret underneath and a terrifying truth could be the end of everything.
I absolutely loved this collection. If you like your horror bold, bloody, and fast paced, I highly recommend this.
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher with no consideration. This review is voluntary and is my own personal opinion.
The first one takes place in a crappy cheap apartment building where the residents are unwitting test subjects for something alien. When they're locked in, things are going to get horrifically gory as they begin changing and morphing into visceral creatures, willing to do rather disgusting things to each other and any non infected person they come across. It's a tremendously gruesome body horror novella that you don't want to read while eating!
The second is more subtle but has body horror elements mixed with a folk horror vibe. When the grown children come back to a farm after the death of their father, they decide to keep the farm going by harvesting an extremely poisonous weed and distilling it into a sort of moonshine. This drink will transform people after awhile into barely recognisable creatures who will do anything for another bottle. Even the siblings aren't immune. But they have to keep going in order to please something that lives on their land and demands sacrifice.
The last novella has a cosmic horror feel to it as something of legend lives in the hidden tunnels underneath a strip bar in a seedy part of town. When a woman goes looking for her missing sister, she's going to accidentally discover the secret underneath and a terrifying truth could be the end of everything.
I absolutely loved this collection. If you like your horror bold, bloody, and fast paced, I highly recommend this.
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher with no consideration. This review is voluntary and is my own personal opinion.
June 28, 2024
Release June 28
This 16th installment in the far-ranging DARK TIDES Series offers extreme and very gory, blood-spattering Horror, not for the faint of heart nor the easily dismayed. As the subtitle promises, these are stories of "transformative horror." No exaggeration here, folks. Caution: do not attempt to read while or following food consumption. These are not bedtime tales: do NOT peruse before sleeping.
Honestly, this is the kind of Horror that makes me long to go at my brain cells with scalding water and a Brillo pad; but I guess that would be a transformative Horror Story all in itself.
This 16th installment in the far-ranging DARK TIDES Series offers extreme and very gory, blood-spattering Horror, not for the faint of heart nor the easily dismayed. As the subtitle promises, these are stories of "transformative horror." No exaggeration here, folks. Caution: do not attempt to read while or following food consumption. These are not bedtime tales: do NOT peruse before sleeping.
Honestly, this is the kind of Horror that makes me long to go at my brain cells with scalding water and a Brillo pad; but I guess that would be a transformative Horror Story all in itself.
August 19, 2024
My podcast interview on this book... https://youtu.be/KMxDbDlTJ3g
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I suppose this year I unintentionally read books in bunches. Two books in a row by locals. Well, ⅔ of this book is local. This is my first book in the Dark Tide series, which is a series of novellas from Crystal Lake Publishing, an outfit I am familiar with but have yet to drive into their work to any great depth. It has been on my list to do so, and I am going to request many of these through my library system, as I like to do.
This one must get into the library system, with three authors out of four so connected to San Diego. Yes, these are friends. Anthony Trevino was a longtime co-host of the Dickheads podcast and co-author of a novel with me (Nightmare City – get it!). If I couldn’t write an honest review, I just wouldn’t review it. Despite a little internal bias let me get into this collection and why you should want to pick it up.
Psychoactive is a collection of extreme horror novellas that collectively explore the themes of Transformation, that is the theme and all three novellas have their own feel. As a good anthology does, it highlights the strengths and skills of the authors represented. I’ll be honest this is my first time reading Ed Kurtz and his reputation is very solid, and that bore out..
Ryan and Cody are authors I have known and read for 20 years now. Anthony, I have known a shorter amount of time, but we collaborated on a novel, and I have great respect for all three. I am happy to report this is a book you should track down.
Cody Goodfellow is an author I have written about on this blog many times over the years. He is one of my favorite writers of my generation. It is wickedly frustrating to read his work and realize that he is not a household name. As talented as he is, the man should have way more sales and metric tons of awards. When I read his work the diabolical genius, I shared tables with fests and events drips off the page. In conversation with Cody, you know he is too smart for this world, and it comes out in his amazing fiction.
Ryan C. Thomas is the author of many cult-hit extreme horror novels. His career started with the ultra-violent survival horror novel “The Summer I Died.” It is a classic around here and has almost become a movie several times for obvious reasons. It would be a classic. That book spun into a trilogy, and so did his body horror zombie bizarro fest Hisser, which he spun out into a trilogy, the third Hissers is when Anthony and Ryan first worked together. Ryan is a smart writer with a cult sensibility. He writes B-horror movies in A+ prose. He knows how to push buttons.
Anthony is a smart writer, I wanted to work with him myself because we share similar interests but approach art differently. He has become very good at working with others and developing that third voice. He brings to his partnership with Thomas a precision of prose and a push to reach artistically further with their gore-drenched works. It is a good mind meld as all partnerships should be.
Since the book opens with the Thomas & Trevino joint let's get going there. Love is a Monsterous Death is around one hundred pages of gore-drenched body horror and very subtle social commentary.
“A civilization swirled in Theo's lap. The once microscopic organisms were now the size of pinheads. Tethered together by the faintest strings of vibrant red, Theo’s new biological family coiled over themselves, desperate for affection from those before them. They lashed out across the crotch of his jeans, and the tattered fabric of his couch cushion. Their love had been rejected but Theo knew this trio of insects just needed coaxing. Once they felt the rush of bliss that came with sharing their bodies, they'd be unable to resist the passion.”
Ironically the closest comparison I can think of is Cody Goodfellow’s extreme horror masterpiece ‘Perfect Union’ which has recently been re-issued by Ghoulish Books. This novella shares the breakneck ability to go from vile descriptions to a sense of love and belonging that carried the brutal disease around the setting, in this case, a shitty apartment building filled with a bunch of characters forced together by circumstance. One of the most interesting characters was a vet with PTSD.
But we are talking about extreme horror…
“Not all heroes wear capes or uniforms. The government thanks you for your service, citizen.” Ron saluted the freshly decapitated head in his hand, warm blood still dripping onto the carpet. He briefly wondered if he should remove the GIMP mask before packing it up but decided it really didn't matter when he could hear Theo getting closer.”
If you have a strong stomach, and a sense of humor that will laugh at fart similes, then this novella has those too. Sentences like “When the stench of burst bowls and rancid-fuck juice finally became too much…” wouldn’t work for me if the authors were not displaying a deeper story at times. Thankfully that is the case. I am not saying this is Shakespeare, but this is smarter horror if you will allow yourself to vibe with it.
Cody Goodfellow’s novella The Secret Eater feels less extreme in comparison to the first novella, but it is a disturbing tale as you’d expect. It is built on Cody’s ability to create rich settings that feel lived in. His Alaska in this story might convince you he lived there, and these were characters he knew. And maybe Hulder's family farm is based on some east county San Diego family moved up north, but this story feels like it had some real-life seeds.
“We buried Dad in the backfield of the Hulder family farm on the 4th of July. It was perfectly legal, but naturally, there were rumors in town that we murdered him. The suspicion became certainty when half the town showed up for the memorial service. That's what the trashy books and podcasts will say, if and when such things are written we respected dad's wishes as a lapsed Catholic by forbidding an autopsy; but entering their mortal remains on the farm, we were keeping a promise he had made to the land.”
I feel Alaska is a haunted land, and this family farm certainly jumps off the page. The best thing about reading this one is the characters.
“We all knew the old gossip, it was the notorious bedrock of Hulder family legend some people went blind from drinking Grandpa Hulder’s shine, and it was local vigilantes who burned his fields, but the smart gossip was that they burned him out because he stopped.”
That is not to say the horror elements were not effective. Cody is one of the most disturbing word smiths we got west of Laird Barron and south of Brian Evenson. This one didn’t make me laugh as much as some of his works, but I did enjoy what he was laying down.
“The earthside and split like an open cyst. It came boiling out of the soil to speak with me. The long Mama. She eclipsed the moon with her enormous head, which had five faces that raps out commands and overlapping, whispering waves.”
I think you should start with Unamerica, or Perfect Union. This is a great story but doesn’t scratch the surface with Goodfellow. If you like it keep that journey going.
Ed Kurtz’s Black Rings is a solid cosmic horror novella built around a missing stripper, and eldritch horror hidden under the club. Like Lovecraftian 8 MM. Good stuff but I admit I didn’t read it as closely as Ed is the one not coming on the podcast.
Psychoactive is well worth the investment. Cody, Ryan, and Anthony will be coming on the podcast in August. So order it now and join us for the fun.
Audio: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
I suppose this year I unintentionally read books in bunches. Two books in a row by locals. Well, ⅔ of this book is local. This is my first book in the Dark Tide series, which is a series of novellas from Crystal Lake Publishing, an outfit I am familiar with but have yet to drive into their work to any great depth. It has been on my list to do so, and I am going to request many of these through my library system, as I like to do.
This one must get into the library system, with three authors out of four so connected to San Diego. Yes, these are friends. Anthony Trevino was a longtime co-host of the Dickheads podcast and co-author of a novel with me (Nightmare City – get it!). If I couldn’t write an honest review, I just wouldn’t review it. Despite a little internal bias let me get into this collection and why you should want to pick it up.
Psychoactive is a collection of extreme horror novellas that collectively explore the themes of Transformation, that is the theme and all three novellas have their own feel. As a good anthology does, it highlights the strengths and skills of the authors represented. I’ll be honest this is my first time reading Ed Kurtz and his reputation is very solid, and that bore out..
Ryan and Cody are authors I have known and read for 20 years now. Anthony, I have known a shorter amount of time, but we collaborated on a novel, and I have great respect for all three. I am happy to report this is a book you should track down.
Cody Goodfellow is an author I have written about on this blog many times over the years. He is one of my favorite writers of my generation. It is wickedly frustrating to read his work and realize that he is not a household name. As talented as he is, the man should have way more sales and metric tons of awards. When I read his work the diabolical genius, I shared tables with fests and events drips off the page. In conversation with Cody, you know he is too smart for this world, and it comes out in his amazing fiction.
Ryan C. Thomas is the author of many cult-hit extreme horror novels. His career started with the ultra-violent survival horror novel “The Summer I Died.” It is a classic around here and has almost become a movie several times for obvious reasons. It would be a classic. That book spun into a trilogy, and so did his body horror zombie bizarro fest Hisser, which he spun out into a trilogy, the third Hissers is when Anthony and Ryan first worked together. Ryan is a smart writer with a cult sensibility. He writes B-horror movies in A+ prose. He knows how to push buttons.
Anthony is a smart writer, I wanted to work with him myself because we share similar interests but approach art differently. He has become very good at working with others and developing that third voice. He brings to his partnership with Thomas a precision of prose and a push to reach artistically further with their gore-drenched works. It is a good mind meld as all partnerships should be.
Since the book opens with the Thomas & Trevino joint let's get going there. Love is a Monsterous Death is around one hundred pages of gore-drenched body horror and very subtle social commentary.
“A civilization swirled in Theo's lap. The once microscopic organisms were now the size of pinheads. Tethered together by the faintest strings of vibrant red, Theo’s new biological family coiled over themselves, desperate for affection from those before them. They lashed out across the crotch of his jeans, and the tattered fabric of his couch cushion. Their love had been rejected but Theo knew this trio of insects just needed coaxing. Once they felt the rush of bliss that came with sharing their bodies, they'd be unable to resist the passion.”
Ironically the closest comparison I can think of is Cody Goodfellow’s extreme horror masterpiece ‘Perfect Union’ which has recently been re-issued by Ghoulish Books. This novella shares the breakneck ability to go from vile descriptions to a sense of love and belonging that carried the brutal disease around the setting, in this case, a shitty apartment building filled with a bunch of characters forced together by circumstance. One of the most interesting characters was a vet with PTSD.
But we are talking about extreme horror…
“Not all heroes wear capes or uniforms. The government thanks you for your service, citizen.” Ron saluted the freshly decapitated head in his hand, warm blood still dripping onto the carpet. He briefly wondered if he should remove the GIMP mask before packing it up but decided it really didn't matter when he could hear Theo getting closer.”
If you have a strong stomach, and a sense of humor that will laugh at fart similes, then this novella has those too. Sentences like “When the stench of burst bowls and rancid-fuck juice finally became too much…” wouldn’t work for me if the authors were not displaying a deeper story at times. Thankfully that is the case. I am not saying this is Shakespeare, but this is smarter horror if you will allow yourself to vibe with it.
Cody Goodfellow’s novella The Secret Eater feels less extreme in comparison to the first novella, but it is a disturbing tale as you’d expect. It is built on Cody’s ability to create rich settings that feel lived in. His Alaska in this story might convince you he lived there, and these were characters he knew. And maybe Hulder's family farm is based on some east county San Diego family moved up north, but this story feels like it had some real-life seeds.
“We buried Dad in the backfield of the Hulder family farm on the 4th of July. It was perfectly legal, but naturally, there were rumors in town that we murdered him. The suspicion became certainty when half the town showed up for the memorial service. That's what the trashy books and podcasts will say, if and when such things are written we respected dad's wishes as a lapsed Catholic by forbidding an autopsy; but entering their mortal remains on the farm, we were keeping a promise he had made to the land.”
I feel Alaska is a haunted land, and this family farm certainly jumps off the page. The best thing about reading this one is the characters.
“We all knew the old gossip, it was the notorious bedrock of Hulder family legend some people went blind from drinking Grandpa Hulder’s shine, and it was local vigilantes who burned his fields, but the smart gossip was that they burned him out because he stopped.”
That is not to say the horror elements were not effective. Cody is one of the most disturbing word smiths we got west of Laird Barron and south of Brian Evenson. This one didn’t make me laugh as much as some of his works, but I did enjoy what he was laying down.
“The earthside and split like an open cyst. It came boiling out of the soil to speak with me. The long Mama. She eclipsed the moon with her enormous head, which had five faces that raps out commands and overlapping, whispering waves.”
I think you should start with Unamerica, or Perfect Union. This is a great story but doesn’t scratch the surface with Goodfellow. If you like it keep that journey going.
Ed Kurtz’s Black Rings is a solid cosmic horror novella built around a missing stripper, and eldritch horror hidden under the club. Like Lovecraftian 8 MM. Good stuff but I admit I didn’t read it as closely as Ed is the one not coming on the podcast.
Psychoactive is well worth the investment. Cody, Ryan, and Anthony will be coming on the podcast in August. So order it now and join us for the fun.
June 26, 2024
I didn't really know what to expect going in, but I wasn't left disappointed. Three tales of horror that each left my skin crawling for different reasons, PsychoActive is one of my top reads for the year so far. There were characters in each tale that I rooted for, mourned, and even the ones I didn't care for (I'm looking at you, Todd!). But the cast in each was brilliantly written, and I enjoyed my time with this novel. If you enjoy some grotesque horror mixed with the inner workings of the human mind, I'd definitely recommend this for you. Great read.
*I received an advanced review copy of this book and am leaving this review voluntarily.
*I received an advanced review copy of this book and am leaving this review voluntarily.
June 28, 2024
OMG this was a mind blowing of a thriller. I was on the edge of my seat and I couldn't even put it down. It was addicted. Their were dark secrets that need to be revealed in the family moment. Could they find the family member who had disappeared in a very emotions moment of that a person will be find. It was an action packed of drama and madness. Dark dreams on the raised of horror and pain.
I highly recommend this book and you won't be disappointed. I received advance copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving my honest review. Trina Jones
I highly recommend this book and you won't be disappointed. I received advance copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving my honest review. Trina Jones
August 8, 2025
Y’all I could just not make it through the first story here. It’s not bad - it's actually very solidly written; it’s just not my cup of tea. Very very much not my cup of tea.
The other two were much more up my alley.
The Secret Eater by Cody Goodfellow concerns an an Alaskan farming family with a lot of issues and secrets who turn to making psychedelic, addictive moonshine after the death of their patriarch. They get everyone in their small town hooked, and the shine allows everyone to see everyone else's secrets and dreams. Of course, all hell breaks loose.
Black Rings by Ed Kurtz - Musician Kat investigates the disappearance of her drug addicted older sister after receiving a frantic phone call from her. This proves to not be the best idea, as there's a massive secret kept in a pit underneath the strip club where her sister recently began working.
Between this and the Urban Legends collection, I'm really enjoying Crystal Lake's Dark Tide novella series so far. I have a few more on my shelf that I plan to read soon, but so far they've been some of the most solid horror novellas I've read.
The other two were much more up my alley.
The Secret Eater by Cody Goodfellow concerns an an Alaskan farming family with a lot of issues and secrets who turn to making psychedelic, addictive moonshine after the death of their patriarch. They get everyone in their small town hooked, and the shine allows everyone to see everyone else's secrets and dreams. Of course, all hell breaks loose.
Black Rings by Ed Kurtz - Musician Kat investigates the disappearance of her drug addicted older sister after receiving a frantic phone call from her. This proves to not be the best idea, as there's a massive secret kept in a pit underneath the strip club where her sister recently began working.
Between this and the Urban Legends collection, I'm really enjoying Crystal Lake's Dark Tide novella series so far. I have a few more on my shelf that I plan to read soon, but so far they've been some of the most solid horror novellas I've read.
June 28, 2024
PsychoActive: Transformative Horror Novellas is another great anthology in the Dark Tide Series from Crystal Lake Publishing.
In LOVE IS A MONSTROUS DEATH by Ryan C. Thomas & Anthony Trevino we observe that residents of a low rent apartment building are exposed an alien species brought back to earth by a space exploration probe. This is a fast moving sexual and body horror that is genuinely terrifying.
THE SECRET EATER by Cody Goodfellow introduces us to a dysfunctional Alaskan family who brew moonshine made from a highly addictive plant.
In BLACK RINGS Ed Kurt we follow a musician as she searches for her missing sister. What she does she finds is a conspiracy in a strip club and in a seedy motel.
Altogether a thrilling and entertaining book that is worth one’s time to read.
In LOVE IS A MONSTROUS DEATH by Ryan C. Thomas & Anthony Trevino we observe that residents of a low rent apartment building are exposed an alien species brought back to earth by a space exploration probe. This is a fast moving sexual and body horror that is genuinely terrifying.
THE SECRET EATER by Cody Goodfellow introduces us to a dysfunctional Alaskan family who brew moonshine made from a highly addictive plant.
In BLACK RINGS Ed Kurt we follow a musician as she searches for her missing sister. What she does she finds is a conspiracy in a strip club and in a seedy motel.
Altogether a thrilling and entertaining book that is worth one’s time to read.
June 28, 2024
"Dark Tide 16" is a thrilling addition to the horror genre, offering a diverse array of chilling tales. From the morally ambiguous veteran in "Love is a Monstrous Death" to the dark family secrets of "The Secret Eater," and the desperate search in "Black Rings," each novella seems to bring its own unique flavor of terror. Crystal Lake Publishing continues to deliver stories that satisfy fans of intense and visceral horror. For those who revel in the macabre and the grotesque, this collection appears to be a perfect match. Remember, though, while diving into these dark waters, it's just fiction—no matter how close to the edge it takes you.
I immensely enjoyed this collection and highly recommend it to horror fans. I did receive an advance copy of this book from the publisher but these are my honest thoughts.
I immensely enjoyed this collection and highly recommend it to horror fans. I did receive an advance copy of this book from the publisher but these are my honest thoughts.
August 6, 2024
A disturbing anthology that delves into the darkest recesses of the human mind and/or soul. My favorite novella was “ The Secret Eater" by Cody Goodfellow. An Alaskan farming family discovers an addictive substance that triggers a sudden change — a metamorphosis in their town. It unleashes too horrific to speak of their dreams and bodily transformations. It is an excellent anthology to read as I did like all the novellas.
Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the publisher. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review. My opinions expressed are strictly my own.
Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the publisher. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review. My opinions expressed are strictly my own.
July 3, 2024
Cody does almost all the heavy lifting here, his novella is like a yardstick showing that the guys he shares the volume with do not really compare (and Ed Kurtz is not even on topic - what the hell?). Still, an entertaining read altogether.
June 28, 2024
Awesome collection of novellas that will leave you shaking in your boots and begging for more. Three of the world's best authors of horror are included in PsychoActive, enjoy!
July 9, 2024
These stories take you into situations where things change from normal to abnormal.
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