Agony By: E. Michael Lewis Samhain Publishing 45 Pages “I did it because they deserved it. I did it because I deserved it.” The Twin Lakes mall seems like your everyday, ordinary locale for browsers, teens and shoppers. Although the merchants grounds wasn’t always the site for serenity and spending. Thomas “Agony” Agonetti had once prowled the center, abducting young …
Read More »Film Review: Estranged (2015)
SYNOPSIS: While vacationing abroad with her boyfriend Callum, January sustains a tragic motor scooter accident that renders her with amnesia and confined to a wheel chair. The only suitable place for recovery is her family’s estate, the very same family that she’d been estranged from for over six years. Will January overcome seemingly insurmountable odds and see a full recovery? …
Read More »Book Review: Woman Scorned – Author Angela Alsaleem
Woman Scorned – Angela Alsaleem Camilla is raped and brutally murdered at the hands of a corrupt police officer. She wakes up dead, oblivious to the fact she’s crossed over into another realm of existence. As she collects herself, consumed in despair and distraught she begins to walk along the road side, hauntingly closer to her ultimate fate. Libitina is …
Read More »Book Review: Revelation – Author Brian W. Matthews
Revelation By: Brian W. Matthews JournalStone Publishing 175 Pages “I’m too old to believe in coincidence,” Bartholomew Owens. When an ancient artifact shows up at collector Miles Knight’s home, something most monumental begins to unfold. The silk bag containing the article possesses qualities that challenge the very parameters of his perception. While a band of unearthly dwellers will stop at …
Read More »Book Review: Contrition – Author Robert E. Hirsch
CONTRITION By: Robert E. Hirsch Journalstone Publishing When a mysterious drifter is saved in a small town off the gulf coast of the Mississippi, strange things begin to transpire. Brother Joseph of The Holy Cross had saved the stranger, Tristan from certain drowning. He’s acquired a certain sense of amnesia knowing little about his past, how he’d gotten into his …
Read More »Book Review: Nightmare in Grease Paint – Authors L.L Soares | G. Daniel Gunn
Nightmare in Grease Paint By L.L Soares & G. Daniel Gunn Part of the Childhood Fears Collection Samhain Publishing 83 Pages Some family legacies are best left buried.
Read More »Book Review: Winterwood – Author JG Faherty
Winterwood From the Childhood Fears Collection By: JG Faherty Samhain Publishing 74 Pages There’s nothing more Anders Bach loves than a good, gripping story with a moral. For years he’s shared his tales with his daughter and now his grandchildren. His old tales of Winterwood are intended more for a cautionary message rather than a morbid ghost tale. Anna, his …
Read More »Interview: Katharine Isabelle (88)
DAVE GAMMON: It is a sincere thrill and honour to welcome my guest at this time to horrornews.net the star of 88 Ms. Katharine Isabelle. Katharine I’d like to go on record as stating that 88 is one of the most surreal, lucid, compelling thrillers in recent times. In all of my years as a film critic 88 is only …
Read More »Film Review: The Barber (2014)
SYNOPSIS: All fingers seem to point at Francis Visser notorious serial killer as the body count rises and terror rules the night. While indictment seems inevitable the investigating detective botches the case and Visser walks free. Fleeing certain incarceration he adapts a new identity of Eugene Van Wingerdt, a small town barber. Someone isn’t so soon to forget the evil …
Read More »Book Review: Boom Town – Author Glenn Rolfe
Boom Town By: Glenn Rolfe Samhain Publishing 70 Pages The sleepy town of Eckert, Wisconsin is home to one of the most profound, mysterious UFO sightings in recent history. In 1979 the residents knew not what to make of the unworldly visitation paralyzed in awe as a blue beam blasted from the center of a saucer like craft into Hollars …
Read More »Book Review: Anatomy of Evil – Author Brian Pinkerton
Anatomy of Evil By: Brian Pinkerton Samhain Publishing 207 Pages When a group of life-long friends embark upon an exotic vacation getaway for a little recreational fishing they soon find out their tropical paradise has much more sinister, unholy connotations than they could have ever imagined. Anatomy of Evil will mark the inaugural reading journey I’ve undertaken with author Brian …
Read More »Book Review: Doppelganger – Author Sean Munger
Doppelganger By: Sean Munger Samhain Publishing 208 Pages Anine Atherton seems to have acquired what every fair maiden in the late 1800’s has dreamed of. After marrying a successful, handsome gentleman suitor, her groom emigrates with her from her native land Sweden to New York. Settling in a breath taking home newly procured specifically for the newlyweds, all seems like …
Read More »Book Review: Stillwater – Author Maynard Sims
Stillwater By Maynard Sims Samhain Publishing 177 Pages While coping with a recent divorce and an accident that has confined her to a wheel chair a young romance author Elizabeth Alvarini seeks refuge in a rental cabin known as Stillwater to work on her latest novel. An ominous presence may not be so accommodating. After Elizabeth begins to meet and …
Read More »Book Review: Cult of the Black Jaguar – Author JG Faherty
The Cult of the Black Jaguar By: JG Faherty Samhain Publishing 47 Pages In midst of an expedition in the Mayan jungle a team of explorers lead by Ethan Foster and Dr. Heathcliff Pascal search for Ah Puch and soon learn in the direct translation, Lost City or City of The Dead holds consequences that are far more than what …
Read More »Film Review: A Cry From Within (2014)
SYNOPSIS: Overcoming the heartache and tragic loss of a child a family relocates from New York City to the country. The house they’ve chosen soon begins to reveal a most ominous presence. Will the apparition get their new cohabitants to hear their Cry From Within? REVIEW: Aka Sebastien Directed by: Zach Miller, Deborah Twiss Starring: Eric Roberts, Deborah Twiss, Cathy …
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