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- Book Review: Off the Rails and Other Tales – Author Jason L. Liquori
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- Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim – Author Scott Alan Roberts
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- Interview: Marilyn Burns (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Book Review: Teeth And Talons Anthology – Author Samantha Combs
TEETH AND TALONS ANTHOLOGY
Author Samantha Combs
There have been less than a handful of stories that, upon finishing reading them, I look up from the page and think to myself “The author had better continue this!” The Ink Man is such a story.
The Ink Man is the first of four short stories in Samantha Combs’ new book entitled “Teeth And Talons Anthology” and it is by far the best of the four (and,… More
Book Review: Haftmann’s Rules – Author Robert White
HAFTMANN’S RULES
By Robert White
Grand Mal Press
“Blood is like a rainbow, like red violet when it first flows, black in the moon light.”
Every now and again a volume of literature is so gritty, so enthralling, so psychologically spell binding we tend to forget what particular genre it slides most neatly into. Robert White’s story of private dick Thomas Haftmann and his obsession with solving an increasingly complex case is if… More
Book Review: Don’t Let Them In: Six Tales Of – Author Elizabeth Fields
DON’T LET THEM IN: SIX TALES OF TERROR
Author: Elizabeth Fields
It took me about two hours to finish reading Don’t Let Me In: Six Tales Of Terror and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised with the individual stories in this collection. If cannibalism, campground horror stories come to life, selling your soul to the devil, and genetically engineered soldiers is your cup of tea, have I got a story (or six) for… More
Book Review: D.O.A.: Extreme Horror Collection – Editors: David B. Hayes and Jack Burton
Full disclosure: I submitted to this anthology and was rejected. On the other hand, my wife, who allows me access to all her soft and naughty bits, has a story on display within its pages. My hope is that the two cancel each other out and leave a relative sense of objectivity to my review. Just wanted to warn you.
Any time you call something “extreme” or “shocking” or any of those clichéd catch-phrases, you… More
Book Review: Cemetary Club – Author JG Faherty
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Faherty’s latest effort is spell binding terror with a paranormal slant with tons of twists and turns. Often thought provoking and spine tingling several prominent themes are introduced simultaneously. Who wouldn’t love a good ghost, ancestry, paranormal, zombie tale right? Toss in a few skeletons in the closet and it seems we have ourselves a blue print for thrill ride into the mind and imagination of one JG Faherty.
The… More
Book Review: TerrorKlowns – The Dark Stories – Author Jarrod L. Dodson
TERRORKLOWNS: THE DARK STORIES
So here we are again. Another review. This time it is for an anthology titled Terrorklowns: The Dark Stories. What can I say about this? The book is badass. The stories themselves are more than entertaining. Not just fucked up in a good way, but really good. Jarrod L. Dodson wrote each story featured within this one-shot. It shows how passionate he is about the genre. The artwork is disturbing. Anything… More
Book Review: Dead Hunger 2 – Author Eric A Shelman
DEAD HUNGER 2 THE GEM CARDOZA CHRONICLE
By Eric A Shelman
A clever, witty sequel pitting our vigilante survivors grappling with the continuous zombie plague in modern American society; it’s within the first person narrative this time from Gem Cardoza’s perspective. For those not yet privy to The Dead Hunger trilogy, Gem is the bad ass, shoot now ask questions later female companion of Flex Sheridan who told his own story in the original.… More
Book Review: Like Porno For Psychos – Author Wrath James White
Welcome to another book review. Today we will be talking about porn, porn for psychos. Whoever could conceive of such a clever title? Wrath James White, that’s who. The guy has a natural talent for hardcore horror and sex, graphic sex. Not just a quick sentence or two, but paragraphs of detailed sex scenes. I have to say that I thought I’d read it all, but this, this tops all the usual horror novels that… More
Book Review: Population Zero – Author Wrath James White
Population Zero
One man, one goal. One’s own demented method of stopping the overpopulation of earth by sterilization. This novella, short but sick as hell in a good way, was an entertaining read. The story was fast paced and disturbingly brutal as hell. Wrath James White has a knack for freaking out his readers, in the end leaving them craving for more.
Wrath’s tale of demented obsession with trying to save the earth… More
Book Review: Decayed Etchings – Author Brandon Ford
DECAYED ETCHINGS
Author Brandon Ford
If you love gore with a touch of irony you will love Decayed Etchings written by Brandon Ford and published by Black Bed Sheets Books in 2011. This book is a collection of eighteen short stories that will leave you horrified and aghast.
Ford uses his grisly imagination to weave these delightfully gruesome, sinister, horror-struck, bloodthirsty tales. Ford goes beyond the normal boundary’s, producing a delicious page turner. I have… More
Book Review: Rough Cut – Author Brian Pinkerton
ROUGH CUT
Author Brian Pinkerton
Synopsis:
Harry Tuttle is your average B-movie director. He makes low-budget horror movies that are usually panned by the uppity film critics who only give positive reviews to mainstream Hollywood films. Still, he has a small fan base and has made money from directing these movies, but he wants more. You see, Harry wants to make a brilliant film that everyone loves so that he can earn the one thing… More
Book Review: Home – Author Carson Buckingham
Following the deaths of her mother and beloved aunt, Kate Kavanagh inherits the family homestead in the Irish enclave of Three Oaks, Conneticut; but once she moves in, Kate begins a gradual but terrifying biological transformation that is part of her inheritance, too; though not mentioned in the Will. With the help of a Rottweiler that’s more human than animal, a new friend whose farm stand is only open dusk to dawn, and the… More
Book Review: Z-Boat – Author Suzanne Robb
Suzanne Robb’s Z-Boat is a novel based in the future wherein the Earth has been severely ravaged due to pollution. There is no clean drinking water in site and the rest of the world’s resources have been severely depleted. Even the sun’s rays are blocked by a layer of smog, casting a dark shadow over the Earth. The only way to salvage humanity is to explore the depths of the ocean for necessary resources.… More
Book Review: The Daily Death – How I Killed My Co-Workers in 30 Days – Author Thomas Scopel
THE DAILY DEATH – HOW I KILLED MY CO-WORKERS IN 30 DAYS
Author Thomas Scopel
I must admit, I was intrigued by this book simply by the name. I mean, everyone has probably wanted to kill a co-worker or two in their lifetime. But still, lamenting over well placed break room knifes and scalding coffee only gets you so far so let’s read some good stories, shall we?
While reading down the books Table of… More
Book Review: Horror Mavericks – Author Danny Draven
“A big film that has the luxury of a $150 million ad budget will certainly educate the public as to what the title means or what kind of film it is. But when you have no money and you’re at the video store or scrolling down the menu on iTunes or Apple TV, the title has to be understandable so people get it. If you can tell a story without even a log line, you’ve… More
Book Review: The Demon of Renaissance Drive – Author Elizabeth Reuter
By Elizabeth Reuter
Annabelle a succubus nestled comfortably in the confines of eternal damnation is bored and restless. Her primary role is to deliver a multitude of incubus unto the Lord of Darkness. Gestation ordinarily lasts twenty four hours. Feeling a constant void she longs to experience the emotions of a mortal and devises a plan to stow away on a voyage to earth through a possible porthole.
Often witty, whimsical… More
Book Review: Steamy Screams – Editor Jack Burton
Indie outlet Blood Bound Books has been attempting to make a name for itself in the publishing world. Their goal is to release genre fiction that can provoke readers and offer high-quality writing. I reviewed one of their publications, K.J. Moore’s Monster Porn, and felt it an attention-grabbing but uneven tale. I’m pleased to say their anthology Steamy Screams is far more consistent and rarely fails to keep its momentum. Steamy Screams consists of twenty-one… More
Book Review: Scratch – Author Corey A. Burkes
Author Corey A. Burkes
In looking back over my reading of ‘Scratch’, I couldn’t have picked a more perfect evening for it. It was late, dark, and there was a thunderstorm outside, just like the pivotal scene in the story itself. Fortunately for me, however, there was no demon in my house!
‘Scratch’ tells the story of Keilee-Ann, the 4 year old daughter of Erica and Marvin. The family is having financial issues and… More
Book Review: 90 Minutes to Live – Editors Joel Kirkpatrick, Bill Patterson
Journalstone’s 2011 Warped Words – 90 Minutes to Live
“There’s a time to live and a time to die
When it’s time to meet the maker
There’s a time to live, but isn’t it strange
As soon as you’re born you’re dying”
Bruce Dickinson-Iron Maiden Clairvoyant 1988
A true milestone for any budding author is to pen a tale that forces the reader to re-evaluate their own life and learn something about himself. Granted we… More
Book Review: Gaslight Grotesque – Editers J.R. Campbell, Charles Prepolec
Hands up who likes Sherlock Holmes? If your hand is raised then you’re in for a real treat with this fantastic tribute anthology. It’s a series of tales featuring our favourite cocaine addict and his faithful sidekick, but with an added layer of grotesque Gothicy goodness.
In these stories we meet Wendigos and zombies, werewolves and ghouls. Aleister Crowley skulks in the shadows, along with those sinister stalwarts of Victoriana: spiritualists, freemasons, mediums, occultists, street… More
Book Review: Aleric – Monster Hunter – Author Fred Wiehe
“A disquiet hush clung to the medical clinic, as if in actuality it were a mortuary rather than a place of healing. Dr. Ratterman prowled the deserted hallway like an undertaker afraid of waking the dead entrusted to his care. The last patient had left. Both nurse and receptionist had gone home. Only the doctor and the demons that possessed him remained.”
What would your response be if I told you about a story including… More
Book Review: Revenge – Authors Gabrielle Faust and Solomon Schneider
REVENGE
By: Gabrielle Faust and Solomon Schneider
Barking Rain Press
“Unfortunately there is no place in Hell for insurgents.”
Marcus is a prisoner of the mundane. Long lost is his passion for anything aside from consuming countless bourbon after bourbon in his tattered, withered upholstered chair. Submitting to reclusiveness and withdrawn even his live in partner Brenda becomes steadily estranged.
One evening he receives a text she’d sent indicating she wouldn’t be home… More
Book Review: When Disaster Strikes – Author Matthew Stein
I had received a copy of this book awhile ago. I immediately began digging into its contents, though I wanted to give it time to absorb a bit as there is much here to learn read, and consume. In this age, where we share the same date as the end of the world cycle (2012), it seems appropriate to add a few survival books on the shelf next to those less helpful “Walking Dead”… More
Book Review: Slaughterhouse High – Author Robert Devereaux
Bizarro fiction is an interesting idea if you think about it. Especially if you’ve finished reading Slaughterhouse High written by Robert Devereaux, who has a talent in the bizarre factor. The novel is in every word gory, disgusting, revolting and any other good word used to describe how entertaining this story was. I enjoyed it for its creativeness and brutality. The characters were likable. The kills were creative. This is the type of novel that… More
Book Review: Sudden Death Overtime – Author Steve Vernon
Sudden Death Overtime by Steve Vernon
(Crossroad Press)
What happens when an over-the-hill never-say-quit bush league hockey team from Northern Labrador go toe-to-tooth with a tour bus full of vampires immortal-stakes showdown of street hockey?
For the answer – throw Paul Newman’s Slapshot into a blender with Steven Niles 30 Days of Night and hit frappe!
Steve Vernon is the author of a dozen e-books of outrageously mind-blowing horror and dark… More
Book Review: Shaman’s Blood – Author Anne C. Petty
SHAMAN’S BLOOD
By Anne C. Petty
Something is terribly awry for Alice Waterston. Her emotionally estranged mother Suzanne has passed. While her own daughter Margaret, uncle Hal and even significant other Nik mourn her loss, she feels detached and numb. A sense of guilt eclipses the bereavement process. Sinister turmoil begins to shine just beyond leaving many questions unanswered.
A curator to the small town’s local museum, Alice becomes obsessed with investigating her family… More
Book Review: Monsters of L.A. – Author Lisa Morton
Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton
(Bad Moon Books)
In these pages you’ll find the dark stars you grew up watching: Frankenstein, Dracula, Mr. Hyde, the Phantom, the Hunchback…all the silent ones and the first to find their voices are here, and they’re even presented in roughly the order in which they first appeared on a silver screen. The Haunted House of the ‘30s gives way to the Werewolf of the ‘40s,… More
Book Review: Malcontents – Authors Wilbanks, Thomas, Norris, Chandler
MALCONTENTS-Four Novellas By:
Randy Chandler, Gregory L. Norris, Ryan C. Thomas, David T. Wilbanks
“I think what I love most about her, is her in born need to dominate possess.” Vincent Price The Black Widow 1975
HOWLER By Randy Chandler: A Bonnie and Clyde incarnation get more then what they bargain for when they rob Mama Rose’s brothel. A freak of nature: part wolf, part girl aptly nick named Wolfgirl and fellow whore extraordinaire Zelda… More
Book Review: Monster P*rn – Author KJ Moore
Sci-fi author Robert Silverberg defended the novella as “the richest” of all literary forms. With the novella, Silverberg posited, an author can offer more character development and exploration of themes than permitted in a short story while not having to follow the rigid requirements of a full-length novel. Silverberg may be right for the most part, but some authors may benefit from the expansive length of a novel. Among that crowd is up-and-comer KJ Moore.… More
Book Review: Where Darkness Dwells – Author Glen Krisch
Where Darkness Dwells by Glen R. Krisch
(Kindle Edition)
During a hot summer night in 1934, tragedy strikes when two local boys search for the truth behind a local legend. They stumble upon the Underground, a network of uncharted caverns just below the surface of Coal Hollow. Time holds no sway in the Underground. People no longer age and their wounds heal as if by magic. By morning, one boy is murdered,… More
