"With the debut of Richard Gavin's first collection, it seems clear that a renaissance of the horror story has secretly been taking place in the small presses. These are stories that bear witness to a Golden Age of the past and evidence a new resolve in the present. Gavin's writing serves as a testament that great masters once crafted great stories...and as evidence that they shall do so again."
--- Thomas Ligotti
"[A] horror writer’s horror writer, with chops galore and a vision to boot."
--- Matt Cardin
"Gavin writes in a style that suits the Gothic horrors he conjures. Readers of antiquarian ghost tales and classic horror fiction will find this book a fine extension of those traditions."
--- Publishers Weekly (on Omens)
"Richard Gavin's tales are genuinely evocative of the strange and alien."
--- Ramsey Campbell
"Canadian master of the weird horror tale."
--- Jeffrey Thomas
"Richard Gavin is a major find; someone who can shake up horror's world with a whisper."
--- Hellnotes
"Richard Gavin pens tales of grimness and melancholy, of ghosts and things much darker than ghosts...He knows how to get under your skin and haunt you."
--- Laird Barron
"Richard Gavin is one of the most distinctive writers of weird fiction to emerge in the past few years, with a voice that has echoes of Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti and Clark Ashton Smith in its prose sensibility and baroque imagery, but remains uniquely his own [...] this is a generally excellent collection, shot through with original concepts and vivid prose, the work of a writer whose fiction is definitely worth keeping an eye out for."
--- Black Static (on The Darkly Splendid Realm)
"[Gavin's] voice blends hints of Arthur Machen, M.R. James and H.P. Lovecraft, yet updates all three of them ably into the 21st century. Like Poe and Ligotti, he’s fond of declarative statements which sound normal on first reading, then twist into something dreadful and alien when you try to parse them further."
--- Gemma Files
"Finding horror collections and novels that embody a healthy balance of all that the genre offers can sometimes be challenging, but Richard Gavin's Omens offers something for every horror aficionado. And we're talking about the intelligent, quiet and disturbing without leaving out the powerful punches and gory goodies."
--- Fear Zone
"Richard Gavin undoubtedly deserves a place in the front rank of weird fiction authors. His work is an example of the very best that the literary Gothic has to offer."
--- Mark Samuels
"I honestly believe there is no one writing like Richard Gavin today."
--- Simon Strantzas
"Gavin has the narrative strength and the imaginative power of a veteran."
--- Mario Guslandi
"There is writing here of dreams and darkness. Stories of nightmare blended with poetic eloquence."
--- L.H. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims
"Mr. Gavin's work pushes particular boundaries of weird fiction in a way that feels unique. While most weird fiction by definition involves some aspect of the weird impinging on everyday reality, Mr. Gavin's stories go further and portray the working of vastly powerful forces that could do far more than merely impinge and at whose mercy we all exist.
"This is the only work of Mr. Gavin's I've read, but it was enough to make me incapable of picturing weird fiction without him."
--- "The Speculative Fiction Junkie" on The Darkly Splendid Realm
"Gavin creates evocative tales that work on the imagination as much as they do on the nerves."
--- Rue Morgue magazine
