Book Reviews

Written by: James D. Baird (Author) (Author), Laurie Nadel (Author), Bruce Lipton (Foreword) Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White – 256 pages Price: $15.99 Happiness Genes explores the basic premise of us as human beings. What thoughts influence our makeup, the cells within and the influence from our environment on our genetic makeup. Authors James …

Written by Todd Martin Published by: Lightning Source Inc Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White Do you remember what got you into horror? Do you remember that first movie that scared you so bad you had to see it again and again? Do you remember the first time plain black words on a page frightened you to your core …

Written by Gregory Funaro Published by: Pinnacle Fiction Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 385 pages Price: $6.99 In 1981, Thomas Harris wrote a novel entitled “Red Dragon” and a monster was created. I’m not just referring to the character of Hannibal Lecter — who went on to star in three more Harris novels, most famously “The Silence Of …

A Host Of Shadows – Harry Shannon “Everyone carries a shadow,” wrote analyst Carl Jung, “and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” Few of us see the shadow with any clarity. Turn around for a peek, it slips away. Our violent, sexually tinged fantasies are indulged regularly in darkened theaters, …

DARK MATTERS: UNIFYING MATTER, DARK MATTER, DARK ENERGY, AND THE UNIVERSAL GRID (PAPERBACK) by Dr. Percy Seymour Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2008 Format: Black /White – 224 pages Price: $15.99 Dark Matters is an intense book of science. Author Dr. Percy Seymour has laid out a road map to further explorations into understanding the tapestry of the …

PSIENCE: HOW NEW DISCOVERIES IN QUANTUM PHYSICS AND NEW SCIENCE MAY EXPLAIN THE EXISTENCE OF PARANORMAL PHENOMENA (PAPERBACK) by Marie D. Jones Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2006 Format: Black /White – 255 pages Price: $15.99 A fascinating book indeed. Marie D. Jones has authored many books. A few of which we’ll be reviewing on horrornews.net. She is …

THE DÉJÀ VU ENIGMA: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE ANOMALIES OF MIND, MEMORY AND TIME [PAPERBACK) by Marie D. Jones, Larry Flaxman Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White – 256 pages Price: $15.99 From the dynamic team of Marie D. Jones & Larry Flaxman who have brought us some many wonderful books on fringe subject matter, …

Written by Andersen Prunty Published by: Grindhouse Press Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 150 pages Price: $12.95 Rarely are readers of horror given the opportunity to laugh while wanting to throw up in their mouths a little bit. “Zombie” fiction (and the term should be used lightly here, as the lumbering corpses are never referred to as …

Robert Davies's writing is more than just prose, more than words strung into sentences woven into ideas. More akin to poetry, his words ooze into one another, vibrating with beauty and horror in the dank pits of excavated body cavities.

As melancholy as it is hateful. Misanthropic. Nihilistic. Fatalistic. Paranoid. A direct assault on our society and ourselves. Admittedly a tad pretentious. Damn did I get a kick out of getting my brain munched on by this asshole.

Although she passed away in December 1986, Virginia Andrews‘ name lives on as one of the world’s biggest selling novelists, with over seventy million copies of her books and stories in print. Often described inaccurately as horror novels, her tales reveal the dark side of human nature, mixing Dickensian motivations with Gothic melodrama to create a hybrid fiction that has …

James H. Lucas is a funny guy. The first novel of his I read (An Undead Wedding) managed to poke fun at nearly everything you could think of about weddings and, well, the undead. Really everything between, as well. I chuckled out loud when I opened my mail and had the bright pink cover of Vampires in Pimptown staring back …

Zombies are everywhere today (not literally, thankfully). Everywhere you turn you’ll find a new movie, video game, book, TV show, or comic book that features the undead flesh eaters. They have been a staple in the horror genre for decades and are as popular today as they were when a filmmaker named George A. Romero did a little movie about …

Well, ye olde boyles and ghouls, this is it. The last chapter of the first volume, the last episode of the first season of Shroud’s flagship franchise: Hiram Grange. You know what you know by this point and your opinion of the series is likely already set (God knows I’ve made my own clear enough). The main question at this …

  Futile Efforts By Tom Piccirilli Published: 2010 Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications Cost: $40 “The dog is chewing into his chest, about to crack through the breastbone and get to the thick meat of his heart inside. Lash took the little bastard in because it was shivering under an abandoned Chevy with six saturated tickets beneath a busted wiper, rain …