Book Reviews

Issue: Bela Lugosi’s Tales from the Grave #1 Writers: Kerry Gammill, Sam F. Park, James Farr, Rob Brown, Derek McCaw, John Cassaday, Joe Freire, Martin Powell, Gary D. Rhodes Artists: Kerry Gammill, Chris Moreno, John Cassaday, Rafael Navarro, Joe Freire, Terry Beatty, Tom Smith, Brian Denham, Kez Wilson, Jeff Preston, Frank Dietz, Paul Garner, Kim Loh Editors: Kerry Gammill, Kez …

Savage Beasts Edited by Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson Grey Matter Press 288 Pages A collection of eleven musically inspired tales to orchestrate the macabre. To Soothe The Savage Beast by Edward Morris: A security guard has a ghostly encounter with a legendary musician. Going Home by Karen Runge: Inspired by the Nine Inch Nails song, Piggy, Hayden and his …

The Void By Brett J Talley Journalstone Aboard the intergalactic ship the Chronos in the year 2169 the crew of Captain Caroline Gravely, Rebecca Kensington, Aidan Connor, Jack Crawford, Cyrus McDonnell and Malcolm Ridley engages in warp travel and encounter a deserted long lost ship The Singularity. On an undisclosed mission to the distant Riley the crew faces obstacle after …

FEAST (PAPERBACK) Written by R. Scott McCoy Published by Shroud Publishing Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 155 pages Price: $7.99 I know what you thought when you saw the cover: Shriveled, dried up guy with empty, white eyes= yet another gawdamn zombie novel (or, if you are still excited about them: “Yay! Another Zombie Novel!”). However you …

We Are Monsters By: Brian Kirk Samhain Publishing 306 Pages “That’s the worst part of his disease. The voices that he hears? They lie.” “Everyone’s got some vice to help compensate for the fact they have to pretend to be someone else.” Things are not quite right within the confines of the Sugar Hill mental asylum. Since a new patient …

by Scott Aaron Stine Published by McFarland & Company Publication Date: 2003 Format: Black /White – 398 pages Price: $35 If you were around to enjoy the 80’s you know it was a great time for horror. Alot of classics were born and alot of strange products came out of that era. What better way to celebrate a productive horror …

I know there are a lot of zombie books out there these days, and maybe you think the authors have run out of different ways to write about them. I really like zombie stories, but I will admit a lot of them have similar plots. Then I read Brian Pinkerton’s How I Started the Apocalypse, and was pleasantly surprised. This …

AMONG THE LIVING Written by Timothy W. Long Published by Library of the Living Dead Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 252 Pages Price: $14.95 Among The Living, brought to you from the zombified staff at Library of the Living Dead Press, is the debut novel from Timothy W. Long. Mr. Long lives in Seattle and he uses his town …

Before the plague, and the quarantine, fourteen-year-old Daniel Raymond had only heard of the Listeners. They were a gang, or at least that’s what his best friend Katie’s police officer father had said. They were criminals, thieves, monsters–deadly men clearly identifiable by the removal of their right ears. That’s what Daniel had heard. But he didn’t know. He didn’t know …

TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE OFFICIAL COMPANION Written by Tara Bennett Published by Titan Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 144 pages Price: $29.95 The year is 2018 ……coming off the huge franchise undertaking, Terminator Salvation adds another chapter to the already in place trilogy. This time we see the effect of skynet on the world after the end of days. …

SWAMP BABY Author Adra Steia Published by Tease Publications Publication Date: 2007 Format: Black /White – 204 pages Price: $12.99 “Its not the swamp you should fear. What comes out of it is much worse… It’s not the physical pain- It’s the agony of loss.” Dear, dear Suwannee may very well be a bit of an idiot. Her recent ex-husband, …

I thought that Dan Dillard’s Demons and Other Inconveniences had grabbed me from the very title. After all, who wouldn’t want to read a collection of short stories by a man who has the stones to reduce the minions of Hell itself to mere inconveniences with a tongue-in-cheek swipe of the pen? But I hadn’t really been grabbed yet, just …

BONEYARD #7 – (PAPERBACK) Written by Richard Moore Published by Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Publication Date: 2010 Format: B / W – 96 Pages Price: $9.99 Richard Moore brings us volume seven in his ongoing epic titled Boneyard. This edition is extra special as it brings closure to a long fantastical journey. As its written in current a press release: …

Girrrl By: Devin Govaere Samhain Publishing 91 Pages “Surrounded by fears. And all of them real.” Kelly Carter isn’t your typical ten year old girl. On the surface she may seem like your ordinary, everyday American youth. Yet some most prominent fears plague the girl’s mind. Fear of the dark, water, and monsters nearly cripple her for regular, healthy summer …

As a movie lover for the better part of forty years, one of the most important aspects in my overall enjoyment of a film is my impression of it through the film’s advertising campaign, usually through the coming attractions trailer but mostly through the advertising artwork, also known as the movie poster. When I was growing up in the 1970’s, …