Book Reviews

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 …

AN UNDEAD WEDDING Written by James H. Lucas Published by PublishAmerica Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 166 Pages Price: $19.95 An Undead Wedding is a totally unabashed zombie comedy. Now, don’t get me wrong there is piles and piles of gore and violence as is required in zombie fiction. The difference is even the gore and death is there …

VICIOUS VERSES AND REANIMATED RYHMES Edited By A.P. Fuchs Published by Coscom Entertainment Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 144 pages Price: $13.95 “While most people plan For fire and flood, earthquakes Winters, acts of God You plot a course For the day Someone meddles- The day Some new Frankenstein Raises the dead.” -“Zombie Attack Escape Plan”, Claire …

VICTORIAN UNDEAD #1 (COMIC) Writer: Ian Edginton Artist: Davide Fabbri Cover: Tony Moore Publisher: Wildstorm Publication Date: 2009 Format: Full Color – 24 pages Price: $2.99 “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Those are the words of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first consulting detective, yet even he finds his skills …

THE ZOMBIE WILSON DIARIES Author Timothy W. Long Published by Library of the Living Dead Press Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White – 240 pages Price: $12.99 Surf, sun, sand, smokin’ boobs … It’s every man’s dream vacation. There’s just one minor hiccup. The boobs belong to a slobbering, stinking zombie. What’s a guy to do? Such is the dilemma …

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM (ROUGH GUIDE REFERENCE) (PAPERBACK) Author Jessica Winter Published by Rough Guides Publication Date: 2006 Format: 2 Color – 277 pages Price: $14.99 Independent films is a tough one, as most cult films fall into that category. This book could easily be re-titled “cult films” though the base and focus is geared towards the …

UNDER Author Bradd Quinn Published by Lulu.com / Frustrated Laboratory Publishing Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 220 pages Price: $15.40 “As he glanced from face to face and the silently stared back, he could sense that he was going to be the last to see what was by that garage. Like Jacob was the only one who hadn’t jumped …

THE NEW ANNOTATED DRACULA Author Bram Stoker Edited with a Foreword and Notes by Leslie S. Klinger Introduction by Neil Gaiman Published by W. W. Norton & Company Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color – 672 pages Price: $12.95 Readers of Dracula have been entranced by the story of Jonathan Harker’s visit to Count Dracula’s castle, and the events that followed, …

TWILIGHT Author Stephenie Meyer Published by Little, Brown Young Readers Publication Date: 2005 Format: Paperback and hardcover (544 pgs) Price: Ranges from $10.99 to $19.99, depending on format The Twilight Saga, by Stephanie Meyer, is a vampire-romance series of novels about the unconventional love between the mortal Bella Swan and the vampire Edward Cullen and the problems they get into …

THE WITCH BOOK (PAPERBACK) Author Raymond Buckland Published by Visible Ink Press Publication Date: 2001 Format: Black /White – 624 pages Price: $24.95 Author Raymond Buckland is one to be respected. He has spent the better part of his life researching and engaging into he studies of witchcraft. With over 30 titles to his name, I couldn’t think of anyone …

URBAN GOTHIC Written by Brian Keene Published by Leisure Books Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color – 336 pages Price: $7.99 In his latest novel URBAN GOTHIC author Brian Keene steers away from the familiar territory of backwoods PA that have graced his last few novels and instead takes us into the cold heart of the city where once again horrible …

THE WORLD CATACLYSM IN 2012: THE MAYA COUNTDOWN TO THE END OF OUR WORLD Written by Patrick Geryl Published by Adventures Unlimited Press Publication Date: 2005 Format: B&W – 345 Pages Price: $16.95 While the level of 2012 books seems to vary on the market today, each seems to somehow offer its own perspective. Sure the common factors such as …