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Book Review: Black Butterflies – Author Kurt Newton

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BLACK BUTTERFLIES
Written by Kurt Newton
Published by Sideshow Press
Publication Date: 2009
Format: Black & White – 60 pages
Price: $12.00

I’ll admit this before I get going … I’m a bit of a Kurt Newton fan boy. I published his truly gut-wrenching mind-altering short story “Butter Red and Diamond Eyes” in my (now defunkt) online venue Horror Quarterly – (I republished it in the “Best … Continue reading

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Book Review: Real World – Author Natsuo Kirino

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REAL WORLD
Written by Natsuo Kirino , Philip Gabriel (Translator)
Published by Knopf
Publication Date: 2008
Format: Color – 224 pages
Price: $23.95

You may never have heard of thriller writer Natsuo Kirino – she’s written about twenty novels in her native language and has won just about every Japanese literary award going. Any new English translation from the author of the simply-relentless horror show “Out” is … Continue reading

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Book Review: Tower Hill – Author Sarah Pinborough

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TOWER HILL
Written by Sarah Pinborough
Published by Leisure Books
Publication Date: 2008
Format: Color – 320 pages
Price: $7.99

Dorchester Publishing’s horror imprint Leisure Books are actively supporting British horror writers like Sarah Pinborough and Tim Lebbon and that’s gotta be a good thing; spreading the word of international horror to mass-market English-speaking audience.

Well, not to put a dampener on this noble quest, but Sarah … Continue reading

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Book Review: Dark Hollow – Author Brian Keene

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DARK HOLLOW
Written by Brian Keene
Published by Leisure Books
Publication Date: 2008
Format: Color – 305 pages
Price: $7.99

I’d resisted reading any book by Bram Stoker Award winner Brian Keene since I happened across one of his short stories on the internet back in 2002 and vowed never to repeat the error. Then this book review assignment hit my desk and finally, after much ethical … Continue reading

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Book Review: Audition – Author Ryu Murakami

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AUDITION (HARD COVER)
Written by Ryu Murakami
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Date: 2009
Format: B&W – 208 pages
Price: $6.00

‘His first reaction on realising she was going to murder him was not, strangely enough, terror but the sort of feelingn of closure one gets upon finally solving a puzzle.’

Audition?

That’s that infamous cult film from Japanese director Takashi Miike, right? The really boring one … Continue reading

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