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Book Review: Nevermore – Author Harold Schechter

Posted on 06/27/2012 by Jessica Brown

NEVERMORE
Written by Harold Schechter
Published by Atria
Publication Date: 2009
Format: B&W – 336 Pages
Price: $20.99

Few American writers are as famous (or infamous) as Edgar Allan Poe. Short story pioneer, literary critic and master of the macabre, Poe is often credited with the introduction of both horror and detective fiction to the American public at a time when literature was often imported from Britain. He is … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Horribles – Author Nathaniel Lambert

Posted on 04/10/2011 by Jessica Brown

THE HORRIBLES

Nathaniel Lambert

Grindhouse Press
Trade Paperback, 124 pages

ISBN-13: 978-0-9826281-5-7

When Sheldon Delaney and his parents moved from Minneapolis to small-town Poe’s Creek, Minnesota, they already stood out a bit more than most. The only black family in a predominantly towheaded community, what could have been an uncomfortable or alienating situation was nullified entirely by the warm welcome the Delaneys received from their neighbors and their immediate … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The House of Fallen Trees – Author Gina Ranalli

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Jessica Brown

HOUSE OF FALLEN TREES

Gina Ranalli
Grindhouse Press

Trade Paperback, 264 pages

ISBN: 978-0-9826281-1-9

I must admit, when I read this Grindhouse Press novel several months ago, I was expecting something very different. I’d seen Ranalli’s work before in The Bizarro Starter Kit, and she’s known as a very inventive and off-the-wall kind of alt-lit writer. For someone with a bibliography including Suicide Girls in the Afterlife … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Daybreakers (2009)

Posted on 01/03/2011 by Jessica Brown

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After an outbreak of vampirism has washed over the planet and its inhabitants have been infected for nearly ten years, supplies of human blood have diminished while demand remains steady. Few humans remain in the wild, having been rounded up by the military for use in blood supply and breeding, and the large holding facilities, where they are stored unconscious like honey in the cells of honeycombs, are not producing … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Apocalypse Shift – Author Derek J. Goodman

Posted on 12/14/2010 by Jessica Brown

THE APOCALYPSE SHIFT
Author Derek J. Goodman
Published by Library of Horror Press
Publication Date: 2009
Format: B&W- 272 pages
Price: $15.95

It is exceedingly difficult to blend horror and humor together in a way that appeases fans of both. The genres themselves are starkly different, catering to two completely separate tastes that often don’t mix well together at all. Successfully combining them takes a bit of skill, as … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Rage Plague – Author Anthony Giangregorio

Posted on 11/26/2010 by Jessica Brown

THE RAGE PLAGUE
Written by Anthony Giangregorio
Published by Permuted Press,
Publication Date: 2009
Format: B&W – 252 Pages
Price: $14.95

Horror fiction tends to come and go in cycles. One month or year vampires will be all that show up on store shelves, and once the fad wanes the subject du jour may well slide into ghosts or witches or evil houses that swallow entire families. … Continue reading →

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Posted on 08/14/2010 by Jessica Brown

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Book Review: Morning is Dead – Author Andersen Prunty

Posted on 08/14/2010 by Jessica Brown

Written by Andersen Prunty
Published by: Grindhouse Press
Publication Date: 2010
Format: Black / White – 150 pages
Price: $12.95

Rarely are readers of horror given the opportunity to laugh while wanting to throw up in their mouths a little bit. “Zombie” fiction (and the term should be used lightly here, as the lumbering corpses are never referred to as capital Zs) tends to lean more towards … Continue reading →

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