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Book Review: Gutmouth – Author Gabino Iglesias

Posted on 06/18/2013 by seanofthedead
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Gutmouth – by Gabino Iglesias
Eraserhead Press – 2012

Published in 2012 as part of the New Bizarro Author Series by Eraserhead Press, Gutmouth is author Gabino Iglesias’ first book. The New Bizarro Author Series has become known for birthing a number of sick and twisted new voices into the world, including Steve Lowe (Muscle Memory), Kirsten Alene (Love in the Time of Dinosaurs), Kevin Shamel (Rotten Little Animals), and Patrick … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Girlfriend Game – Author Nick Antosca

Posted on 06/18/2013 by seanofthedead
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The Girlfriend Game – by Nick Antosca
Word Riot Inc – 2013 (Publication Date: June 30, 2013)

Nick Antosca has been all over the place lately. He was the writer of the 2012 horror film The Cottage, starring David Arquette and Kristen Dalton. His name can be found among the writing credits of ABC’s Last Resort as well as MTV’s Teen Wolf. His first novel, Fires, came out in 2006, followed … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Last Whisper in the Dark – Author Tom Piccirilli

Posted on 06/15/2013 by Anton Cancre
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My Mother had never turned her back on anyone in the family for a minute. I swallowed down a surge of hatred for her parents. I wanted to meet these people. Along with that came a vague anger toward my father for falling in love with her and stealing her away.My Mother had never turned her back on anyone in the family for a minute. I swallowed down a surge of hatred for her … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Last Kind Words – Author Tom Piccirilli

Posted on 06/14/2013 by Anton Cancre
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“The last kind words ever spoken to Jesus were spoken by a thief.”

Normally, I’d start off with some kind of hook, a generalized statement that ties into my feelings about the book being reviewed. Summary. A well reasoned list of pro’s and con’s. Professional and clean, if a bit self-conscious at times.

That’s not what you’re getting today, because this isn’t that kind of book.

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Book Review: Plow the Bones – Author Douglas Warrick

Posted on 06/12/2013 by Anton Cancre
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A common complaint in the genre is that Weird Fiction is no longer weird. That Speculative Fiction no longer speculates. Instead of the bright, dimensional boundary shattering work that started the genres, we’re getting stale, staid and bland rehashes that stick to the established formulas. Nearly every fantasy is a copy of either Tolkein or Howard. Far too much Sci-fi is trying to be Herbert, Asimov or Heinlein. And if I get one more … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Simon and Kirby Library: Science Fiction – Authors Joe Simon | Jack Kirby

Posted on 06/11/2013 by Alex DiVincenzo
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The Simon and Kirby Library: Science Fiction spans more than 20 years, beginning with the first stories Joe Simon and Jack Kirby ever produced together (beginning in June 1940)–their ten-issue run of Blue Bolt adventures. Then the Cold War years will be represented by Race For the Moon, featuring pencils by Kirby and inked artwork by comic book legends Reed Crandall, Angelo Torres, and Al Williamson.

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Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are among … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Kyoto Man – Author D. Harlan Wilson

Posted on 06/10/2013 by seanofthedead
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I first encountered the writing of D. Harlan Wilson in the pages of The Bizarro Starter Kit –Orange (Bizarro Books, 2006), which opens up with a handful of his short stories. In those pages, I visited the worlds of home-invading bodybuilders, mysterious characters battling for the rights to a piece of used chewing gum, and an entrepreneur who starts his own business selling facial hair as pets. The writing was fantastic and the images … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Flash Gordon: The Fall of Ming

Posted on 06/10/2013 by Alex DiVincenzo
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Continuing the comprehensive library of the greatest science fiction hero of all time, this brand new collection of library editions feature all new restorations that will preserve these legendary adventures for generations to come. Starting with revered writer-artist Alex Raymond, this volume continues the adventures of pulp hero Flash Gordon on the planet Mongo and his ongoing battles with the deadly and heartless Ming the Merciless.

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Book Review: Emergence – Author William Vitka

Posted on 05/30/2013 by Steven Chope
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Well, here we go again with Mr. William Vitka. We last visited his world in a stellar end of days account in Infected. His new tale is a prequel to Infected. Something I was very excited to hear about because Emergence Day is spoken about in Infected but you never really find out any details. Well, kiddies, the details have arrived.

While Emergence is advertised as a “Dark, gritty young-adult horror fantasy”, I found it … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Dead Klowns – Author Jarrod L. Dodson

Posted on 05/22/2013 by HorrorNews.net
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Having read Jarrod L. Dodson’s Terrorklowns, I knew what to expect when I was reading his latest graphic novel release Dead Klowns. Total anarchy in Klown form. Only these Klowns are dead, as in zombified and hungry for human flesh. Whether you love or hate the sight of killer klowns, you’re going to fear them even more in this graphic novel featuring the likeness of Brian Vollmer … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Killing Kind – Author Bryan Smith

Posted on 05/22/2013 by John Rizo
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Bryan Smith has brought us some good horror literature in the past, House of Blood, Queen of Blood, The Freakshow and many others. The Killing Kind is one of those novels that could not be put down. The book itself was fast paced and thrilling, the characters themselves were rich, full of life and often times, one would find themselves caring for them and the situations they were in. To say The Killing Kind … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Only the Thunder Knows / East End Girls – Authors Gord Rollo | Rena Mason

Posted on 05/17/2013 by Dave Gammon
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ONLY THE THUNDER KNOWS/EAST END GIRLS:
Double Down Series: Authors Gord Rollo and Rena Mason
JournalStone Publications
154 & 113 Pages

JournalStone continues to exercise its creativity and innovation, thinking outside the box with its Double Down series. Although far from a new concept, the two books in one method has fallen from fashionable trends in recent years. Now horror enthusiasts get double the chills, double the thrills and double the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Shatnerquest – Author Jeff Burk

Posted on 05/17/2013 by seanofthedead
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Shatnerquest – by Jeff Burk
Eraserhead Press, 2013

When a Magic: The Gathering tournament at Baltimore’s SuperCoolCon is interrupted by the beginning of the end of the world, Gary, Janice, Benny, and Benny’s cat Squishy find themselves on a mission, to boldly go where no cosplay group has gone before. To do what any self-respecting fan should do, given the circumstances. To do the right thing. They steal a DeLorean modified to resemble … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Monster Files – Author Nick Redfern

Posted on 05/15/2013 by HorrorNews.net
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Monster Files: A Look Inside Government Secrets and Classified Documents on Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals

From the creator of several fringe subject matter books arrives a new edition titled “Monster Files: A Look Inside Government Secrets and Classified Documents on Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals” (wow..now that’s a mouth full!). Nick Redfern is certainly a busy writer these days sometimes creating books faster than I can read them.

This one in particular will … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Life Rage – Author L.L. Soares

Posted on 05/11/2013 by Anton Cancre
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“I hear all this bullshit about road rage, air rage, black rage, white rage, male rage, female rage, kid rage. Fuck, man, I got fucking life rage. Just being alive makes me pissed off all the fucking time.”

Modern Society seems to leave many of us just plain pissed off most of the time. Maybe it has to do with the lack of much honest to goodness fighting or flighting, resulting in too much … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Evolutionist – Author Rena Mason

Posted on 05/11/2013 by Dave Gammon
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THE EVOLUTIONIST
By: Rena Mason
Nightscape Press
256 Pages

Stacy Troy is just your ordinary everyday upper middle class suburbia housewife. While Jon her physician husband is busy tending to his practice and an abundance of fundraisers and her teenaged son becomes emotionally distant she succumbs to a series of hauntingly realistic nightmares. As her frightful visions begin to eclipse into her ability to cope in regular life she agrees to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Cornerstone – Author Anne C. Petty

Posted on 05/09/2013 by Dave Gammon
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THE CORNERSTONE
By: Anne C. Petty
JournalStone Publishing
240 Pages

While a small theatrical company, Janus Theater is in production of Christopher Marlowe’s play Dr. Faustus strange, eerie things begin to transpire. Cast members disappear at random without a trace. Accidents occur without reason or explanation. An earthquake virtually shatters a busy downtown street while the producer seems beyond eccentric and erratic with his obsession with what lurks in the basement. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Shifting Fears – Author Eric A. Shelman

Posted on 05/08/2013 by Dave Gammon
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SHIFTING FEARS
By: Eric A. Shelman
Dolphin Moon Publishing
298 Pages

Luke is a mild mannered auto mechanic with passions in life for the simple things. He loves his family, his girlfriend Terri, his business and his borderline obsession with restoring his 1958 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special. Working on it since childhood he pours blood, sweat and tears into his project proud of the fact it contains all if its original … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Grimalkin Manor – Author S. Roit

Posted on 05/05/2013 by Andrew Hawnt
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GRIMALKIN MANOR
by S. Roit
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Known chiefly around the world for her acclaimed Paris Immortal series of vampire novels (and if I may add, vampire novels with a difference – not the run-of-the-mill stuff), it is refreshing to enjoy a novel by her which doesn’t feature bloodsuckers. As great as vampires can be, the world of genre fiction is at present awash with clones of clones of clones when … Continue reading →

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