PHOENIX AND THE DARKNESS OF WOLVES Author Shane Jiraiya Cummings Published by Damnation Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White – 90 pages Price: $9.90 What’s the deal with Australia as a post-Apocalyptic wasteland? I certainly wouldn’t figure them to be the first target for a full out nuclear barrage. Then again, if anyone could survive alongside the c**kroaches and Little …

NUCLEAR JELLYFISH Author Tim Dorsey Published by Harper Collins Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White – 320 pages Price: $24.99 “There are three-and only three- kinds of people in the world: Those who don’t know they’re damaged and blame others; those who realize they’re damaged and blame others; and then people like you and me, who wear damage like comfortable pajamas” …

RAW: BRUTALITY AS ART Written Author Adam Huber Published by Snuff Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White – 220 pages Price: $14.00 What do you call a man with no arms and no legs hanging on a wall? If you said “Art”, then, congratulations, you’re certainly up on your elementary school humor. What do you call an anthology based around …

SEE NO EVIl, SAY NO TO EVIL Written by Matt Betts Published by Dastardly Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 45 pages Price: $7.00 “What the hell were we talking about? Oh right. Let me sum it up. Shark – Not dead. Out of the water – Move away. Most importantly, and I can’t stress this enough… …

The problem this book faces is its competition. There's a sea of similar books out there, including the hulking beast rampaging through the city that is Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide. At more than twice the price, TUGtSaZA doesn't present any solid reason to purchase it over what is considered by many to be the definitive guide of its type.

SHROUD ISSUE #7 Managing Editor: Tim Deal Published by Shroud Publications Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 152 Pages Price: $6.99 Before we get into the review proper, I owe you a bit of a warning: This issue contains a story from yours truly as well as one written by a dear friend of mine, Laura Langford. Of …

ROBIN HOOD AND FRIAR TUCK: ZOMBIE KILLERS – A CANTERBURY TALE (PAPERBACK) Written by Paul A. Freeman Published by Coscom Entertainment Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 97 pages Price: $12.99 “The spell upon the guards was broken when The first of them was slaughtered like a hen Whose neck upon the chopping block gets thwacked. On either …

THE FOURTH BLACK BOOK OF HORROR Author Charles Black Published by Mortbury Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 232 pages Price: $15.00 “People Who liked horror were f*ckwits. He’d lived with horror all his life. Real Horror. Well, tonight he’d spread it around.” -”All Hallow’s Even” In the interest of total honesty and with full respect to the fine …

SPELLBENT (PAPERBACK) Written by Lucy Snyder Published by Del Rey Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 97 pages Price: $7.99 I imagined the people below sitting on their front porches, enjoying the evening breeze, sipping sweet lemonade or perhaps frothy cold beer. And then they’d look up to see a woman with a flame arm flying through the …

TASTE OF TENDERLOIN Written by Gene O’Neill Published by Apex Publications Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 144 pages Price: $13.95 “The ‘Loin was without a doubt the armpit of the city. Because of the full moon, he knew that every panhandler, homeless person, hooker, junkie, and crazy would be hyped up and crowding the street…” Anyone that …

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR by Jack Ketchum Published by Leisure Books Publication Date: 2005 Format: Black /White – 370 pages Price: $7.99 “We were juveniles-not criminals but delinquents. So that under the law we were innocent by definition, not to be held accountable for our acts exactly, as though everybody under eighteen were legally insane and unable to tell right …

I know the stigma a YA stamp carries among the horror community, but we, as a community, need to get over that crap. Rick Yancey put together a fine, chilling and emotionally affecting tale in the process. With monsters that will eat your face and enjoy every moment of it.

THE KULT Author Shaun Jeffrey Published by Lecrota Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 328 pages Price: $9.95 Not wasting any time, he pressed his knee into her scrawny chest and started work with the hacksaw, drawing it back and forwards across her shoulder, and the screaming increased in pitch. H felt the blade bite through flesh, …

TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD Author Travis Adkins Published by Permuted Press Publication Date: 2006 Format: B&W Price: $15.95 “She Brought up her own arm up to her face to study it under the sunlight. It was blue and cold. Frantically, she pressed her palms to her cheeks and felt that they, too, were cold. She looked down at herself to …

VICIOUS VERSES AND REANIMATED RYHMES Edited By A.P. Fuchs Published by Coscom Entertainment Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 144 pages Price: $13.95 “While most people plan For fire and flood, earthquakes Winters, acts of God You plot a course For the day Someone meddles- The day Some new Frankenstein Raises the dead.” -“Zombie Attack Escape Plan”, Claire …