Eminence Front by Rebecca Rowland
Clash Books (January 20, 2026)
Review by W.D. Gagliani
If you’ve ever been freaked out by blizzard conditions and outrageously large snowfall totals, this short novel is likely to bring its share of shivers to bear on your chionophobia.
Titled after a relentlessly driving Pete Townshend song from The Who’s It’s Hard album, Rebecca Rowland (Optic Nerve, The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, and numerous splatterpunk short stories) makes the most of this exercise in mostly “quiet horror” by casting a vaguely Lovecraftian shadow over its story, in which the cosmic dread is almost tangible.Continue Reading
