Fidelis Angela Tan has done an excellent review of DEMONS OF THE NEW YEAR over at The POC's Pinoy Pop channel. You can read the complete text here. You can still check out the DNY antho here. Salamat ng marami!
Below is an excerpt from Tan's review.
Demons of the New Year (for mature audiences only), the entirely free, entirely online horror anthology fromEstranghero Press edited by Karl De Mesa and Joey Nacino is worth perusing just to get a taste of a different kind of horror. These are not the kind of stories where you take a bunch of “good people” (pure-hearted, or at least innocent people), pit them against the forces of darkness (the “demons”) and then count on the light of day to save them in the end.
Instead, the anthology (which features short stories, a comic and a hypertext fiction piece) comes with a variety of perspectives on ‘demons’, tackling the idea in a multitude of twisted, sometimes subversive ways. We’re familiar enough with the faces of the demonic – we know them as ghosts, or aswangs, or those creatures that crawl out of Biblical Hell. But the stories show demons don’t just belong to the night – they’re hiding behind religious icons, or at desks in multi-national corporations, or in karaoke bars, or in the walls of old buildings, or old cities. More importantly, they aren’t the kind of demons one can exorcise with prayers and good intentions.
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