Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts Book

When it comes to book anthologies in the horror genre, you can pick from a plethora of choices. There are collections just for vampires, zombies, werewolves, ghosts, new authors or just plain old horror. But how many times have you seen one where the theme is angels? Hell, even in film, there aren't too many horror movies devoted to God's winged servants. The fantastic The Prophecy immediately comes to mind as one of the few, as well as the not-so-fantastic Legion. On the whole, it's virtually an untapped market.

Ulysess Press' Visitants tries to fill that gap and is packed with 27 stories, old and new. While it is implied that there is a horror element to the book with the press release, the majority of the stories lack any sort of terror that you would expect to find. However, all of the tales are dark in theme, either black in comedy or just flat-out depressing, so while it may lack in scares, it does deliver in bringing something different to the genre. Couple that with the book boasting such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Graham Masterson, Michael Marshall Smith and more, Visitants is more than the typical throwaway anthology you generally find on the clearance rack at Barnes & Noble which generally contains old stories from mediocre authors.

You can read Steve's full review at Horror DNA by clicking here.