Book Reviews

The Handbook of Angels and Fallen Angels: An Essential Guide to Angels and Demons and, More Importantly, How to Spot Them As a new entry into the Barron’s Educational Series, author Dr. Robert Curran has taken on probably my favorite subject of the bunch. Namely angels, demons and everything in between. This small but mighty little book packs a punch …

Just when you thought that you were all stocked up for the winter with horror books awaiting your attention, that great printing house publisher FAB Press delivers another compelling entree worthy of your attention. Those who have collected the first 2 volumes of FrightFest which include: The Frightfest Guide to Exploitation Movies and the The Frightfest Guide to Monster Movies …

Book: Taxidermied: The Art of Roman Dirge HC Writer: Roman Dirge Artist: Roman Dirge Publisher: Titan Books Release Date: September 2011 Pages: 112 Price: $34.95 “A stunning full-color celebration of the eye-catchingly original artwork creator Roman Dirge, the first anthology of his work available anywhere. This lavish hardback includes an introduction and background commentary information on the imagery by Dirge …

The Source Book One Hidden Things By Luthaneal Adams 332 Pages “An ancient curse stretches across the centuries, corrupting the lives of all it touches, drawing the forces of good and evil into a struggle to control its terrible power. A devil, a sorcerer, a serial killer, an Oxford scholar and a wayward professor-all unknowingly bound together across time, by …

When I was thinking about how to begin my review of Andrew Van Wey’s Foresaken, I gave serious thought to starting with these three words: “This book sucks.”  But when I floated this idea to my wife she talked me out of it, arguing it wasn’t professional, wasn’t much of a review, and in any event, wasn’t really fair.  After …

Doghead A Graphic Novel Story by: Petong S. Art by: Digitkame 277 Pages Avery is an alienated youth with few ambitions and even less friends. While trying to get closer to one of his classmates he discovers a hermit just outside of town that has a most sinister secret. While studying the old man from afar he makes the unholiest …

WARPED WORDS FOR TWISTED MINDS Short Stories compiled by JournalStone’s Christopher C Payne Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, after all we’re all humanery stew if we don’t pledge allegiance to… ….I love the dead before they rise. No farewells no good-byes, I never even knew your now rotting face. Cadaver eyes upon me see….nothing. Ah, nothing says Halloween better than …

True Indie, the new memoir from Don Coscarelli—the man responsible for cult classics Phantasm, The Beastmaster, Bubba Ho Tep, and John Dies at the End—starts out with a bang, literally: the book’s prologue recounts the filming of his first car chase scene, for which the young director was so intent on getting the perfect shot that he ended up taking …

DEAD HUNGER Flex Sheridan receives an eerie phone call of unusual proportion. His sister, Jamie Leighton reaches out and quickly unveils the plague that has consumed her. She complains of an infernal, insatiable hunger. Even her husband or two daughters Jesse and Trina couldn’t subdue her carnal behavior. The call is abruptly concluded to disturbing, blood curdling screams. Distraught, he …

Released in 2018 from the publishers “SelfMadeHero, we have an impressive volume totaling over 512 pages of pure Lovecraft-ian intrigue. Yes, author and artist I.N.J. Culbard has placed his heart and soul into this one with a huge collective of illustrative works that cover 4 HP Lovercraft stories. Those featured here include: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,” “The Case of …

11:11 THE TIME PROMPT PHENOMENON: THE MEANING BEHIND MYSTERIOUS SIGNS, SEQUENCES, AND SYNCHRONICITIES (PAPERBACK) by Marie D. Jones, Larry Flaxman Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White – 255 pages Price: $15.99 11:11 What is the significance that demands a whole book, numerous web sites, mathematical studies, metaphysical reports and all sorts of phenomena associated with …

The Forbidden is one of the stand-out tales from Barker’s acclaimed Books of Blood series: a genre-redefining collection that prompted the horror high-priest Stephen King to proclaim breathlessly that ‘Clive Barker is so good I am almost literally tongue-tied.’ (For any horror fan not to have read these gory, otherworldly fables is a like a church-goer eschewing the New Testament.) It’s …

Gypsy Blood By Jeff Gunhus Seven Guns Press 286 Pages Corbin Stewart is an author that has looked directly into the eyes of adversity and realized the greatest fear of any writer. He’s submerged deep into the fray of writer’s block. Having already received a handsome advance from his publishing company and blown through most of it, he retreats to …

ONSLAUGHT: ZOMBIE WAR CHRONICLES BOOK ONE By Damon Novak Dolphin Moon Publishing 337 Pages A global outbreak has spawned in the most precarious of forms, in black rain. Those exposed to the elements find their untimely demise only to rise again among the undead. Cole Baxter, never one to sit back and watch it unfold races against time and all …

ERRANT GODS BLOOD OF ISIR BOOK ONE BY Erik Henry Vick Ratatoskr Publishing 719 Pages A missing wife and son lead former policeman Hank to pursue two otherworldly serial killers into a strange realm of gods and demons. Errant Gods marks the inaugural reading endeavor I’ve undertaken with author Erik Henry Vick at the helm. While my ordinary flavor of …