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Best horror anthology I've read in a while. My favourites were the peculiar and surreal: What Makes a Shadow by J. Daniel stone, Last of the Clown Hunters by Andrew Wilson and Chelsea Grin by Michael Kelly. All stories were enjoyable though, some more speculative fantasy than horror. Loved this collection, it's proper work of art. I tried to buy more of this journal but it is now put of print and hard to source. Oh well, I'll keep searching! Highly recommend.
Turn to Ash, Volume 1 suffers from the same issues that every magazine and anthology suffers from: in any collection or group of stories, some will be good, others less-good, and all of them will be viewed differently based on the specific reader's tastes. In reading this collection, I was thankfully introduced to several authors whose work I deeply enjoyed, and who I soon looked up on social media in order to better stalk their careers. Most of the stories, however, left me shrugging. Perhaps I...
Even though I have a piece in this collection I took the time to go through and read the other entries, there's some nice pieces like the tight "The Monster I Became" by Betty Rocksteady or Lucy Snyder's "While the Black Stars Burn". All in all it's a nice collection that kind of hits on all the right points between weird and horror. Worth your time.
Solid debut volume of Turn to Ash, featuring a number of good-to-great quality short stories and some non-fiction, reviews, and articles. The focus is horror with a weird twist, with themes and settings ranging from fairy-tale to dream logic to modern-day. Recommended to fans of horror anthologies in a high-quality magazine format.
Turn to Ash brings back what we loved about horror in the mid 80's and early 90's. A journal that combines fiction and nonfiction, interviews and much more. That is the strength of this publication. Another strength is that there is no theme, which allows writers to not be constricted when penning their tales. For me, each story was good in their own way, but the absolute standout for originality and prose style was "What Makes a Shadow" by J. Daniel Stone. Story read like a Burroughs nightmare....
A stirring mixture of style and content, of which the undoubted highlights for me were the sharp and esoteric 'What Makes a Shadow' by J. Daniel Stone, the pitch black whimsy of 'Last of the Clown Hunters' by Andrew Wilmot and the skin crawling fever-dream of 'The Mother Chase' by Alana I. Capria. The smattering of intriguing non-fiction articles and tenebrous selection of art added just the right amount of variety to an overall fine anthology. I'll be picking up volume two imminently.
