Book Reviews

Death Do Us Part By: JG Faherty Samhain Publishing 66 Pages Vengeance never dies Art Stanhope believes he’s finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel. After his vindictive, manipulative wife Catherine sees her untimely demise he believes he can finally move on with his life. A new relationship and the family bond with his son he always …

Things seem to be going well for Olivia since taking down the evil and shady businessman Isamu Matasuki and taking over his company. She ends up selling Matasuki International to focus on a new business with her lover Brian and some of her best friends and she couldn’t be happier. Unfortunately someone connected with Mataskui comes looking for revenge and …

WARLASH: DARK NOIR No. 2 Written by Frank Forte Artwork by FRANK FORTE, ROYAL McGRAW, STEVE MANNION, NENAD GUCUNJA, J.C. WONG Cover painted by BRUNO WERNECK Published by Asylum Press Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color / B&w – 48 pages Price: $2.95 Warlash is back with a vengeance. Carrying over from last issue we pretty much have a full does …

Bearing the title “Global Weirdness“, you might mistake this for just another apocalypse-laden read. The book is created under the Climate Central group who (from the series of emails I received) are a group with a much needed concern for our planet’s direction. Not in the sense of politics, prophecy, or social agendas, but to simply alert us to what …

ZOMBIE AND POWER TOOLS I sit now, typing this review with smug satisfaction curling my lips into a smile. I’ve just finished reading Alan Spencer’s gore streaked zombie novel, Zombies and Power Tools, and I gotta say I’m impressed with his take on the walking dead. Mr. Spencer introduces us to a quiet little town and many of its inhabitants …

Scabs: The Gemini Exception By: Eric A. Shelman Dolphin Moon Publishing 367 Pages The world has gone completely awry. When the sun is out twenty four hours a day the average person is suspect to solar flares being the primary origin. It doesn’t take long to realize there is something most prominently apocalyptic at hand. Intense epidermis formations begin to …

“Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today’s Art Film Culture” marks the next addition into the handful of books published on this category of film genre. The subject of extremism in films is by no means a new concept, but one that has gotten pushed from out from the purely underground circuit to new audiences with the emergence of new …

The Cabin in the Woods Official Novelization Author Tim Lebbon The novelization of the film The Cabin in the Woods written by Tim Lebbon. The basic storyline (without giving away any spoilers though I think anyone who would be interested in reading this novel has already seen the movie and knows what happens) revolves around a group of college students …

Plague Town by Dana Fredsti Synopsis-A college town is placed under quarantine by the military after a virus causes a zombie outbreak to occur. After being attacked by a herd of zombies and surviving Ashley finds out that she is a “Wild Card”-the term used by the military for people who are immune to the effects of the virus. She …

Dark Teardrops takes me back to my youth to the days of experiencing “devil movies” for the first time. Not your typical afternoon haunts or latest monster showcase, they were something quite entirely of their own device. Dark Teardrops embraces this era by taking us thru a familiar and unnerving story building on well thought out circumstances that are rich …

BAAL (1978) By: Robert R. McCammon Pocket Books 347 Pages A dark prophet has been exhumed from the bowels of hellfire and brimstone to walk among mankind. Spreading his unholy gospel unto a legion of followers the prince of demons seems unstoppable. Will a rebel rising be enough to thwart his evil tendencies or will society ultimately crumble unto the …

In successful horror novels, there is always the calm before the storm. In Gregory Lamberson’s latest horror story, Black Creek, that is just the case. The setting is perfect and unique in its own way. The claustrophobic feeling is very present mixed in with the constant dread of not knowing what is going to happen in a situation where a …

A Debt To Be Paid By: Patrick Lacey Samhain Publishing 76 Pages “Nowhere to run.” Gillian Foster has reached her wits end with her insurmountable debt. An unusual letter arrives in the mail one day that appears to be just the salvation she was looking for. With promises of alleviating her financial liability the correspondence seems too good to be …

THE AMAZING, INCREDIBLE, SHRINKING, COLOSSAL, BIKINI-CRAZED CREATURE FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN Author E. Mitchell Published by Outskirts Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 124 pages Price: $10.95 ”I am a man of science. To bore you with the tales of hedonism I have witnessed firsthand, the besotted days amidst the worlds most pulsating pleasure pastorals would be a precious …

HOME 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 …