Book Reviews

CONFESSIONS OF A PUPPETMASTER Author: Charles Band with Adam Felber Publisher: William Morrow

LIAR: MEMOIR OF A HAUNTING By: E.F. Schraeder Omnium Gatherum Publishing 187 Pages When young couple Alex and Rainey strive for a new beginning in a sleepy hollow town, all their dreams have come true. While there is initial reluctance, buying a rustic, fixer upper of a home seems to be the calling the binds the two even deeper. Not …

Generation Ex-D Edited by: Rebecca Rowland Dark Ink Books 348 Pages An anthology of tales revolving around the central theme of Generation X horror origins. Prose and foes from twenty-two separate authors contribute to this cornucopia of paranormal, slashers and psychological thrillers. Oh, my! I’ve become a colossal fan of collections of themed horror in recent times. Quite often it …

Jewish Book of Horror Edited by Josh Schlossberg Denver Horror Collective 358 Pages “Dedicated to the persecuted throughout history and the world.” An anthology consisting of twenty-five contributions, each perpetually bound with the common theme of cultural phenomena, folklore, legend and macabre oppression. I’ll be the very first to go on record I’m more than a little embarrassed at just …

Night of the Undead Whores By Eric Kapitan 65 Pages The ballad of Aaron and the symphony of destruction orchestrated from the most hideous of composition. His unrelenting lust for carnal mayhem and blood knows no bounds. When his darkened mentor Bob begins to eclipse his own reality, Aaron soon realizes his evil deeds come with unfathomed consequences. Night of …

Helminth By S. Alessandro Martinez Omnium Gatherum Media 273 Pages When young grieving widow Abby struggles to cope with the loss of her husband she succumbs to the inevitable feeling of perpetual sorrow. Attempting any and all provisions to endure the journey of bereavement, she also has to grapple with the haunting flashbacks of witnessing the love of her life …

Dark Country By Monique Snyman Vesuvian Books 294 Pages Published May 17, 2022 “Too often people mistake monsters for gods.” Esme Snyder is an occult crime expert conjured to investigate the latest spree of killings within the South African city of Pretoria. Spiralling deeper and deeper within the abyss of a cat and mouse game with the macabre slayer, she …

Under Worlds, After Lives By Dan Fields 180 Pages A collection of ten short stories containing the dark, sinister, eerie, and macabre, from Do Not Resuscitate to Old Man Winter and everything and anything imaginable in between. I’ll be the first to go on record that I wasn’t entirely sure what to make of Under Worlds, After Lives at first. …

The Ragged By Brett Schumacher 172 Pages Upon the passing of his grandfather Corvus, Andrew and his wife Celeste attend his funeral while chartering along the inevitable journey of grievance. Not long after returning to the locale of his upbringing Andrew learns the farmhouse in which he was raised was left to the couple in Corvus’s will. Sorting through the …

Evil Eye: A Slasher Story By: April A. Taylor Midnight Grasshopper Books 178 Pages St. George Island, Florida is the perfect, sleepy getaway for virtually any and all walks of life. That is of course until everyone is forced to evacuate with a hurricane in sight with enough vengeance to obliterate all within its path. Six strangers are trapped on …

Vice vs Vampyres: An Original Feature Radio Play By Brad Havens Mountainfire Media A group of dirty cops look to redeem their previous slate by taking down a white slavery ring. Only catch, is their captives are being coveted by a group of insatiable vampires. I’m never ceased to be amazed at the assignments that are delivered unto me by …

Scott Christian Carr has balls. Big, hairy, hyper-inflated balls that he doesn't mind showing off at every opportunity. Anyone who is willing to throw the attack on the Twin Towers and baby tentacle-rape at the reader in the friggin prologue has to. He doesn't hold back anything and the effect is tremendous. By 7 pages in, you know that nothing and noone is safe from this man and his horrific dreams where laughter is mixed with blood-tainted vomit.

Dial M for Mutants By Mat Thorne Terlion Books 236 Pages “The Midnight Extra isn’t much of a tabloid, but that’s never really bothered Buck Vincent. He’s not much of a reporter. And in a paper notorious for Elvis sightings and celebrity sex gossip, Buck’s Can You Believe It?! section feels right at home. For twenty-nine years, he’s dreamt up …

She Rises at Night By Jae El Foster DCL Publications 477 Pages Bob and Karen are an estranged couple searching for any path towards reconciliation. One final gesture towards a new beginning is a move across the sea to a farm in the UK. The fresh start and new locale could prove to have catastrophic results. A decrepit constitution with …

Tombstone Teeth and Other Horrors By E.G. Rand 50 Pages A collection of four short stories under the genre of contemporary horror and not so conventional fears. Since the pandemic had unleashed upon our society in early 2020, we have all been prompted to make some radical changes. Whether these changes are temporary, extreme, or perpetual could vary as much …