Apex Book Company

Dark Discoveries says this about Orgy of Souls:

Ultimately, the beauty of Orgy of Souls is in the many layers that went into its composition. On its surface, it is visceral horror with splashes of blood spraying off the page. Upon deeper inspection, it is a character-driven narrative involving two brothers with conflicting worldviews trying to protect one another. Driving it all is the religious conundrum, a subtle spiritual theme that the authors skillfully leave vague and ambiguous.

Publishers Weekly reviews I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein:

This hard SF collection wears its heart on its sleeve, along with the various passions (the Holocaust, education, moral dilemmas) of its author.

Dark Scribe Magazine loves Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales:

Kudos to Apex Publications for bringing Fran Friel to a wider audience. With unflinching tenacity, Friel takes the reader to dark, discomfiting places in Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales. You want to close your eyes at times, but Friel has seen to it with her hypnotic writing that you can’t. It’s like she sticks toothpicks under the reader’s eyelids, forcing them to witness the horrors she has uncovered in the shadows of her writing lair. That she’s so unyielding in her pursuit of our imaginations is at once unnerving and enthralling – and the sign of a writer dedicated to her craft. The Friel deal.