Mike O’Driscoll’s Review: THE SKELETON MELODIES

The Skeleton Melodies (Hippocampus Press, 2020)

Major props to Mike O’Driscoll at Ginger Nuts of Horror for his immersive and insightful review of The Skeleton Melodies. “At his best, his stories show us ordinary people trying and, more often than not, failing, to make sense of a fucked-up world,” writes O’Driscoll. “No matter how grotesque or unreal the situations in which they find themselves, nor how egregious their mistakes, these are men and women we can empathise with.”

Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review of THE SKELETON MELODIES

“This superior volume should garner Smith the wider audience he merits.”

I’m ecstatic that a starred review of The Skeleton Melodies has been posted at the highly regarded Publisher’s Weekly. “Fully-realized characters and evocative prose distinguish the 13 horror tales in Smith’s outstanding second collection (after 2014’s Ghouljaw and Other Stories).” Read the full review here: Publisher’s Weekly Review of The Skeleton Melodies