Books

ARLENE’S HEART Written and Illustrated by Victoria Frances Published by NBM Publishing Publication Date: 2007 Format: Full Color, 80 pages Price: $24.95 Arlene’s’ Heart is just more than a visual treat. It’s a treat for the eyes, the soul and the mind. Victoria Frances is an artist who received acclaim for here Goth series “Favole”. Her latest release comes in …

The Cure By: JG Faherty Samhain Publishing 254 Pages She was born with the power to cure. Now she’s developed the power to kill. A young woman named Leah DeGarmo struggles to cope with a mixture of gift and curse in the power to heal. Adapting the role of veterinarian she vows to use her powers for good in making …

COSMIC CONVERSATIONS: DIALOGUES ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE SEARCH FOR REALITY by Stephan Martin (Author), Brian Swimme (Contributor), Fred Alan Wolf (Contributor), Peter Russell (Contributor), Bernard Haisch (Contributor), Richard Tarnas (Contributor), Barbara Marx Hubbard (Contributor) Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White – 287 pages Price: $21.99 There’s nothing better than a book …

TOWER HILL Written by Sarah Pinborough Published by Leisure Books Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color – 320 pages Price: $7.99 Dorchester Publishing’s horror imprint Leisure Books are actively supporting British horror writers like Sarah Pinborough and Tim Lebbon and that’s gotta be a good thing; spreading the word of international horror to mass-market English-speaking audience. Well, not to put a …

TALES FROM THE CROSSROAD The world of publishing has changed, but while many companies are either trying to desperately to cope with these changes or coming up with new and exciting ways to exploit them, Crossroad Press is doing a damn fine job of showing how it can be done right. They’ve got a fairly extensive and consistently growing catalog …

Synopsis-Almost a year after the events of the first book the world is in shambles. Lexy and her group of fellow survivors continue to fight to stay alive as several factions begin to pop up all around them. The thing is though, some of these factions are made up of people worse than the zombies and the mutated creatures threatening …

All Art is Junk – by R.A. Harris Once upon a time, in the future, there lived a young girl named Lana who painted beautiful pictures with her paintbrush hair. Lana’s mother saw great potential in her, and so arranged a bodyguard to watch over her at all times and keep her safe. One day, Lana’s father, Mansell Rivers, a …

Written by Bernard Haisch Published by New Page Books Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White Hardcover – 222 pages Price: $19.99 If anything is evident in modern culture, it’s that the discussions of God, science, Darwin and the meaning of life have risen to the forefront. This aspect has found it’s way into authors, films, and heavy radio discussion that …

WATCHER OF THE DARK By: Joseph Nassise Tor Books 301 Pages Jeremiah Hunt is consumed within the most precarious of dilemmas. While hiding out in a seedy Los Angeles motel he’s taken against his will by a band of misfit thugs. Taken to Carlos Fuentes he’s presented with a sinister ultimatum. Hunt can either work with his team in finding …

THE ROAD TO NOWHERE By: Lee Argus Permuted Press Publishing 113 Pages A man awakens within the confines of a desolate, abandoned hospital only to realize he has amnesia. Struggling to stay alive he flees the institution while desperately trying to unravel the mystery of his past while thwarting the clutches of the walking dead infesting civilization. Will he unveil …

THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF ZOMBIE COMICS (PAPERBACK) by David Kendall Published by Running Press Publication Date: 2008 Format: Black / White – 480 pages Price: $17.95 Wow… what can you say about zombie comics that hasn’t been said already? Well this edition in fact is a bit different of a format. Black and white through-out and bound into a fat …

THE DEVIL OF ECHO LAKE By Douglas Wynne JournalStone Publishing A heavy metal/gothic rock star named Billy Moon begins to soon realize his fame and fortune has come at a rather unholy cost. Signing to record his third album in the famed, secluded Echo Lake Studios, a converted church with a macabre past, Moon begins to come apart at the …

She is perched high above the ground on a tree branch near the top of a weeping willow, swaying in the chilling riverside breeze. She watches the watcher through shimmering leaves, a set of hidden eyes participating in a feast of perversity. -“For the Sake of Pleasing” I had high hopes for Irredeemable. Sizemore has proven himself a man of …

I’ve seen a few oddly illustrated books come across my desk this year, but with that said, they have also been some of the most entertaining. A recent book by the name of “The Great Showdowns” arrived under the authorship of Scott Campbell. Heck it even has an opener foreword by Neil Patrick Harris. Hardbound, small (7×7 size) with 144 …

Issue: Descent of the Dead #2 Writer: Rich Perez Artist: Francis Penavic Inker: Rage Ledbetter Publisher: Tango Unlimited Release Date: August 2011 Price: $3.99 “Picking up from where the first issue left off the town of Roanoke has lost communications with HQ and the tech repair teams who have went to investigate have gone missing. The call goes out to …