Reviewing: Paul Draper's Black Gate Tales: A highly-recommended work of quiet dread, wonder & loss
I often receive requests to review active writers’ horror novels and anthologies, and it is always a pleasure to be asked, but I have rarely been quite so grateful to be asked as I was with Paul Draper’s recent anthology of dark fantasy, Black Gate Tales. In his bio, Draper lists his influences as Machen, Le Fanu, Lovecraft, Blackwood, Hodgson, and M. R. James, which obviously piqued my interest and – to a lesser degree – my skepticism. I rarely encounter modern horror which