Book Reviews

DEVIL’S KNOT : THE TRUE STORY OF THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE Written by Mara Leveritt Published by Atria Books Publication Date: 2003 Format: B&W – 404 pages Price: $15.00 Hell-o, True Crime buffs (and false imprisonment Fighters). This review is for a novel that I hold near and dear to my heart. I am a big part in the battle …

DEVIL #1 (COMIC) Story & Art: Torajiro Kishi, Madhouse Studios Letters: Sasquatch Editors: Tim Ervin Cover Artist: Torajiro Kishi Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 28 Price: $3.50 A virus is raging across the planet, turning people into bloodsucking superhumans referred to as “Devils.” Most victims die within days, sometimes months, but there’s a new strain, …

EMBRACING THE DARKNESS; UNDERSTANDING DARK SUBCULTURES Written by Corvis Nocturnum Art by Corvis Nocturnum Published by Dark Moon Press Publication Date: 2005 Format: B&W – 242 pages Price: $17.95 Publication Date: 2005 Format: B&W – 242 pages Price: $17.95 Making the assumption that this was a “how to be a Goth book” would be a mistake. Why I say this, …

DOORWAY UNTO DARKNESS Written by Owen Keehnen Published by: Dancing Moon Press Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 280 pages Price: $15.00 Possession, evil, darkness, brutality, and gore are all words that could be used to describe Owen Keehnen’s Doorway Unto Darkness. Keehnen tells the tale of a man possessed by an all-consuming, powerful, and unmerciful evil; a …

DIGITAL HORROR ART: CREATING CHILLING HORROR AND MACABRE IMAGES Written by Martin McKenna Published by Course Technology PTR; 1 edition Publication Date: 2006 Format: Color – 160 pages Price: $29.99 It’s not very often you see books published on the subject. But it doesn’t change the fact that Horror Art is an extremely popular field that crosses over into film, …

VALLEY OF THE SCARECROW by Gord Rollo Dark Regions Press During the great depression, a small backwoods community in Iowa face even more difficult times than most, having to endure the slowly fading sanity of their leader, Reverend Joshua Miller. When it is clear the man has slipped beyond the edge of reason and perhaps signed a deal with the …

DRUMMER BOY Written by Scott Nicholson Published by: CreateSpace Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White – 360 pages Price: $13.95 Drummer Boy, by Scott Nicholson, is a supernatural novel set deep in the North Carolina Mountains. The town of Titusville readies for the annual reenactment of the area’s most famous Civil War battle; Stoneman’s Raid. During the actual battle, years …

EDEN FELL Written by Lily Published by Damnation Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: B/W Price: $4.50 or ? “Although my shrink is dubious and believes completely in my obliviousness, I am aware I’m always living in a perfect world in my mind. I know it’s not a perfect world. I know there aren’t such things as screaming snakes or weeping …

EVERYBODY DIES FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN Written by Wrath James White Published by: Thunderstorm Books Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White Price: $13.95 After reading Wrath James White’s previous books I was ready for anything when I received my copy of Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town. I was expecting another intense and violent and sickly graphic tale …

ESCAPE FROM HELL Written by Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle Published by: Tor Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 368 pages Price: $7.99 What if the nether-world popularly known as the Hell, as imagined by Dante Alighieri in his DIVINE COMEDY, actually existed? That was the premised presented by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in their 1976 sci-fi …

EMPIRE: A ZOMBIE NOVEL Written by David Dunwoody Published by Permuted Press Publication Date: 2008 Format: B&W – 296 pages Price: $14.95 For as long as humans have been living we have been dying. If prostitution is called the “original sin” then I make the argument that the undead (in all it’s terrifying forms, from stumbling biting zombies to elegant …

FLOWERS FROM HELL: THE MODERN JAPANESE HORROR FILM (PAPERBACK) by Jim Harper Published by Noir Publishing Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White with mid section color pages – 192 pages Price: $24.95 “Flowers from Hell” is a great overview of Asian horror films! Jim Harper has set out to really engage his readers by not only simply giving us a …

GIRLS AND CORPSES (MAGAZINE) – PRINT ISSUE #10 (VOL 2 – Spring) by Robert Steven Rhine Published by G&C Magazine Publication Date: 2010 Format: Color – 78 pages Price: $8.95 Is that a dead Romero on the cover? Yep you betcha….must mean Girls & Corpses have arrived in the mail. Though I’m gonna turn your attention real quick to page …

GIRLS AND CORPSES (MAGAZINE) – PRINT ISSUE #6 (VOL 2 – Fall) by Robert Steven Rhine Published by G&C Magazine Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color – 78 pages Price: $8.95 Rhine really knows how to win the hearts of the genre. Hot chicks combined with dead people. I guess it brings out the necrophilia in all of us, though I’m …

GIRLS AND CORPSES (MAGAZINE) – PRINT ISSUE #7 (VOL 2 – Winter) by Robert Steven Rhine Published by G&C Magazine Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color – 78 pages Price: $8.95 Well this wraps up the last of the batch of Girls and Corpses reads I have on hand. Though I still look forward to many more new issues to dive …