Dan Rhodes writes like Roald Dahl on some bad acid. I say that as a compliment. The story begins by introducing us to a sinister old man who survives on a diet of chocolate cake and spiders. He’s the curator at a German museum dedicated to suicide. The museum is supposed to be a deterrent. However such is the bleakness …
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Book Review: Willy – Author Robert Dunbar
WILLY (Uninvited Books) by Robert Dunbar In a school for boys with emotional problems, a disturbed adolescent struggles against a mire of superstition and oppression. Then he meets Willy … and the other boy – charismatic and strange – saves him. Or damns him. Robert Dunbar’s new book “Willy” is one of the most powerful and compelling books I have …
Read More »Book Review: The Horror of the Shade – Author Peter Meredith
THE HORROR OF THE SHADE On a warm summer night, death comes for Gayle Jern. It comes unheralded and like all of us, she is unprepared. Her mind is on her family’s recent move to a new home and she is happily filled with the promise of a new beginning. However, promises were made to be broken. In one terrifying …
Read More »Book Review: Horror Library Vol 3 – Edited by R.J. Cavender
HORROR-LIBRARY VOLUME 3 Seated in the dark confines of my bedroom which serves as my office space, I’ve just finished reading Horror-Library Volume 3. The third installment of the Horror-Library series edited by R.J. Cavender. This time around, the thirty twisted and disturbing tales written by the minds of people who are just as ordinary as we are…or are they? …
Read More »Book Review: Pop Goes Frankenstein – Author Sam Ita
Frankenstein – A Pop Up Book With its riveting blend of horror and science fiction, Frankenstein has gripped the public’s imagination since its publication in 1818. Now Sam Ita, the genius of paper engineering and art, transforms Mary Shelley’s tragic masterpiece into an unforgettable, stunning, and accessible pop-up book. For the third time, Ita—who created the magnificent Moby Dick and …
Read More »Book Review: Real Aliens, Space Beings – Authors Brad and Sherry Steiger
REAL ALIENS, SPACE BEINGS, AND CREATURES FROM OTHER WORLDS(PAPERBACK) Written by Brad and Sherry Steiger Published by Visible Ink Press Publication Date: 2011 Format: Black /White – 350 pages Price: $19.95 You’ve read the stories, seen the tv shows and heard the rumors, though it never seems to be enough. Are aliens invading, have they already or is our historical …
Read More »Book Review: Day Terrors – Editors Kfir Luzzato and Dru Pagliassotti
DAY TERRORS “I yanked her head back by her hair and sank my teeth in her neck, crunching through her esophagus, and again, and again, chewing, swallowing, her blood washing hot over my face, my neck, feeling her spasm and die, sacrificed to the new race she had created. I dropped her corpse, a gravestone over what humanity had been. …
Read More »Book Review: Zombie Bitches from Hell – Author Zoot Campbell
Let’s try an experiment. “So I was reading Zoot Campbell’s Zombie Bitches from Hell the other day.” What kind of reaction do those words evoke in you? Are you offended by the book’s title or by any of the words contained therein? If so, you should, without question, pass on this one, ‘cause it doesn’t exactly increase in political correctness …
Read More »Magazine Review: Creepy Images Magazine – Issue 6
Welcome to the world of exploitation memorabilia. Yes, indeed! It’s that time again for collectors to treat themselves to a bit of culture and hard to finds. A new issue of Creepy Images has arrived with some great scans of first time exclusive print images and some others that collectors would die for. Now as a import mag, your gonna …
Read More »Book Review: The House of Fallen Trees – Author Gina Ranalli
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 …
Read More »Book Review: Slay Bells Ringing – Edited by Jeff Chitty
SLAY BELLS RINGING Slay Bells Ringing is an anthology of Christmas-themed horror stories, most of which were written by first-time published authors. This is definitely not an anthology for children to read; quite a few of the stories were extremely violent or contained explicit sexual situations. Although some of the stories were good, the editing of this anthology needed a …
Read More »Book Review: Famous Monsters Magazine – Issue 254
Famous Monsters Magazine – Issue 254 Hey all, Welcome to a new review of another familiar face on the print scene arena. This article we review the latest release of Famous Monsters #254. First off, ….and I imagine I’ll be saying this alot, it features an amazing cover per Jason Edmiston. Yep it’s that cartoonish elongated face of our natural …
Read More »Book Review: The Chocolate Man – Author Waide Aaron Riddle
THE CHOCOLATE MAN by Waide Aaron Riddle Enter into night in this house of dark and no light Where Evil lives and ghouls and specters remember… and never forgive. This house known as Blackraven, haunted by death, where there is no God…there is no heaven. “The Chocolate Man” by Waide Aaron Riddle is something that comes along only once in …
Read More »Book Review: The Red Church – Author Scott Nicholson
THE RED CHURCH This big, fat slice of American Gothic has been haunting my Kindle for the past few nights. It’s one of those ‘can’t wait to get into bed and read’ books. Remember when you were young, and you’d be walking home, but when you got to that house, you know, the haunted one, you’d run hell for leather …
Read More »Magazine Review: Morpheus Tales – Issue 12
Morpheus Tales #12 If Ever I Should Leave You by John S. Barker Illustrated by Matthew Freyer Kid Intestines by Christopher Glazer Woodbury by Brick Marlin Illustrated by Vladimir Petkovic Misery Of the Pickled Punk by Lawrence Barker May Old Acquaintance Be Forgot by Kury Fawver Illustrated by Charlie Zacherl Deviation by Edward Rodosek Sharp Edges by John F. D. …
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