Book Reviews

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HAUNTED PLACES: GHOSTLY LOCALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Written by Jeff Belanger Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2005 Format: Black /White – 357 pages Price: $19.99 So you a ghost hunter you say? or maybe just interested in the local haunts, tales and legends? Maybe your none of those and just curious with the supernatural and …

THE NEW HORROR HANDBOOK (PAPERBACK) Written by A. S. Berman Published by BearManor Media Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W- 236 pages Price: $19.95 When you are head deep in the horror genre business and have the opportunity to review and read several books, you tend to see alot of repetition. Not that I mind it, but there’s only so many …

THE IMPOSSIBLE DAVID LYNCH Author Todd McGowan Published by Columbia University Press Publication Date: 2007 Format: B/W – 280 pages Price: $26.50 Author Todd McGowan takes a bold move. For anyone, deconstructing David Lynch’s films into analysis, reason and philosophy is quite an undertaking. Though as we quickly find it’d todd’s love for his work that fuels his deep analysis. …

THE RESONANCE KEY: EXPLORING THE LINKS BETWEEN VIBRATION, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE ZERO POINT GRID (PAPERBACK) by Marie D. Jones, Larry Flaxman Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White – 256 pages Price: $15.99 As we dig deeper into the collected universe of science versus fiction, we uncover several other means to an end. Such ideas and …

ElecLENORE: WEDGIES (COLOR EDITION) (HARDCOVER) Written by Roman Dirge Published by Titan Books Publication Date: 2010 Format: Color – 128 pages Price: $17.95 Lenore, Lenore….call it a guilty pleasure. Or maybe a childish Goth in us all. Or maybe it’s just the morbid fascination of this little cute but deadly cartoon. I think she echoes a certain sense in us …

UNABRIDGED, UNABASHED AND UNDEAD Written by Eric S. Brown Published by Library of the Living Dead Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 240 Pages Price: $14.95 Since I have begun reviewing books for this killer horrornews.net monster I have been exposed to all kinds of killer authors and their wonderfully brutal stories. As I am human I picked my …

THE WEREWOLF’S GUIDE TO LIFE: A MANUAL FOR THE NEWLY BITTEN (PAPERBACK) Author Ritch Duncan, Bob Powers Published by Broadway Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 256 pages Price: $13.99 If any a time for Werewolf books, I suppose now is the time with a fresh re-release of “An American Werewolf in London” out on shelves. Which I’m …

THE LIVING DREAD Author T. L. Fletcher Published by: Self published Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White Price: $NA Remember the scary stories you used to tell when you were a kid? Around the campfire, at slumber parties, when you stayed up much too late and gave yourself the shivers? T.L. Fletcher’s The Living Dread is what those stories wanted …

Robert Aickman (1914-1981) described his stories as ‘strange.’ Probably because no other word quite does them justice. Interestingly, he came from a rich horror heritage, his grandfather Richard Marsh having been a rival in popularity to Bram Stoker with his occult novel, The Beetle. But, during his life, Aickman was known as much for his conservation work on British waterways …

THE VISUAL EFFECTS ARSENAL: VFX SOLUTIONS FOR THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER (PAPERBACK) Author Bill Byrne Published by Focal Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black / White / color images – 288 pages Price: $49.95 As the interest in movie making and film creation projects increase in the market, there becomes a demand for more books focused on training folks to accomplish …

THE PINES Author Robert Dunbar Published by Leisure Books Publication Date: 2008 Format: Black /White – 333 pages Price: $7.99 STAY OUT OF THE PINES! There are many legends that are told around certain parts of the world, some of these legends are unbelievable. When we hear about the Pine Barrens in New Jersey, a thought comes to our mind. …

Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary: The A-Z Guide to Staying Alive [Paperback] Dr. Dale loves the zombies…and if I must say, has picked a pretty good time to write about them in the present day gaggle of zombie films, books and walking dead infatuations. This isn’t the first I’ve seen books in this same theme but each brings to the table …

AN A TO Z OF THE OCCULT (SIMON COX’S A TO Z) by Simon Cox (Author), Mark Foster (Author) Published by Mainstream Publishing Publication Date: 2008 Format: Black /White (with some color inserts) 240 pages Price: $24.95 How about some occult training in shorter doses? The latest book by author Simon Cox & Mark Foster offers just that . A …

UNBOUND AND OTHER TALES Author David Dunwoody Published by Library of Horror Press Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White – 188 pages Price: $14.95 David Dunwoody is the talented author of one of my favorite zombie novels, Empire. I can honestly say Unbound and Other Tales takes all the things I loved from Empire and spreads them out over a …

TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD Author Travis Adkins Published by Permuted Press Publication Date: 2006 Format: B&W Price: $15.95 “She Brought up her own arm up to her face to study it under the sunlight. It was blue and cold. Frantically, she pressed her palms to her cheeks and felt that they, too, were cold. She looked down at herself to …