Farrenkopf’s writing style is fresh, creative, and appreciably direct, generally putting the reader right into the story without laying out too much behind or ahead…The prose is polished and accessible, the pacing smooth, and Farrenkopf offers some wonderfully new perspective on creature horror.

Bury Me Cold is not the book that puts Mohr on the awards map and primes him for mainstream success, but it is a publication that gives me full faith that, if he keeps hustling and honing his craft, he’ll produce that pivotal work very soon. I struggle to think of another collection from a single author that shows such thematic and narrative versatility while also being so consistently and captivatingly original. The stories in Bury Me Cold are not only uniformly strong, but diverse in their strengths, and Mohr’s ability to impart a well-developed voice to what is a very diverse array of fiction left me deeply impressed.

‘For me, I AM AI was less about the nefarious creep of technology and potential negative impacts of generative artificial intelligence than it was about a very realized, widespread hardship that is already well-proliferated today: the near-inescapable compulsion to sacrifice our innate desires and personal ambitions in the name of financial prosperity or security.’

‘Collage Macabre is an elegant and incisive anthology that showcases some of the best young talent in speculative fiction today. Spanning eighteen stories and as many authors, the collection tries on all manner of form and circumstance with the only true unifying element being that each tells the story of a creator.’

The passages are vibrant and forward-pressing, blessed with the energy that wells from a cast of mid-twenties characters with mid-twenties concerns, and I find myself struggling to put the book down