Books

THE ART OF TERMINATOR SALVATION Written by Tara Bennett Published by Titan Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 256 pages Price: $35 Art books are always a little harder to review due to the content being based more on a visual aspect. A recent book I received is titled “The Art of Terminator Salvation”. Hardbound, full color and chock …

THE CHURCH SYNOPSIS: After a virus starts wiping people out and turning them into flesh-eating zombies the streets are overrun by an always growing horde of the undead. Sam, just a regular guy who was forced to kill him wife who became a zombie due to the virus, seeks refuge at a local church where a group of survivors have …

REGRET by Gabrielle Faust (Dark Regions Press) Humanity is renowned for placing the blame for their most unspeakable actions in the palms of their “demons.”  It would seem that for every crime, every indecency there is a minion of the Underworld assigned to it. The lucky ones balance precariously on the edge of damnation, always managing at the last minute …

Published by MARRS MEDIA INC. Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 126 pages Price: $9.95 Ok, kids…it’s that time again for another edition of what’s up in the Rue!? Now if you wondering what that huge oversized volume of goodness is sitting on the magazine shelf, then you guessed it right. It’s the 12th Anniversary Halloween Edition just in time …

VAMPIRES, WEREWOLVES, ZOMBIES: COMPENDIUM MONSTRUM (HARDCOVER) Written by Suzanne Schwalb (Author), Margaret Rubiano (Author), Peter Pauper Press (Editor), Bruce Waldman (Illustrator), David Lindroth (Illustrator) Published by Peter Pauper Press Publication Date: 2010 Format: B&W – 168 Pages Price: $9.95 Vampires, werewolves and zombies oh my! – I must say my curiosity has peaked this last year as these 3 categories …

If you have ever watched a movie and thought to yourself “Wow, I think that could happen,” then you certainly are not alone. Author Rod Glenn effectively portrayed that thought in his book SINema but took an approach most of us would not: mass murder. Han Whitman (short for Hannibal) is not his real name but one he produced to …

Traditional Tales of Tejano Terror Having lived in San Antonio for some time I have become intrigued by the haunted history behind the Alamo City. It was not until I began talking to an author who is from here in San Antonio, who wrote a book on stories of horror and mayhem. There are a lot of tales that are …

You probably know Greg Hall. He’s the Friday night piggy-petter and grand poobah of the no-pants zone who gives out 80’s headshots with the, ahem, personalized inscription stating that you are indeed his favorite writer. He gets some of the biggest names in horror on his podcast, the Funky Werepig, but never forgets to leave room for those writers struggling …

MALPRACTICE Edited by Nathaniel Lambert Published by Stygian Publications Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White Price: $15.99 Let me see them hands if you love yerself a good, old-fashioned trip to the hospital? That’s what I thought. There is something about those sterile environments filled with stoic, mask covered faces, reeking of antiseptic and a mild undercurrent of something much …

THE RAGE PLAGUE Written by Anthony Giangregorio Published by Permuted Press, Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 252 Pages Price: $14.95 Horror fiction tends to come and go in cycles. One month or year vampires will be all that show up on store shelves, and once the fad wanes the subject du jour may well slide into ghosts or witches …

The story is nothing that experienced readers of horror will not recognize and it is nothing that those who enjoy the reading of mythology will be shocked by – it’s pretty straightforward in this regard. However, what is fascinating is the almost anthropological approach with which Mellon has chosen to tell his story. The book is meticulously researched and beautifully rendered with arresting images and insights into the ever day and commonplace as well as the pageantry and circus-like atmosphere that could have drenched that ancient city.

Voices of The Damned By: Barbie Wilde SST Publishing 215 Pages Illustrations by Eric Gross, Clive Barker, Steve McInnis, Tara Bush, Daniele Serra Special Forward by Chris Alexander and Afterword by the Soska Sisters A collection of eleven delightfully, dark and depraved stories to challenge your perception of the unknown and feed your appetite for what lurks within. Sister Cilice: …

FOREVER MAN By: Brian W. Matthews JournalStone Publishing The quaint town of Kinsey, Michigan has been overthrown to chaos as a young boy is found mutilated in the local woods after a high school dance. His date remains missing. After Police Chief Izzy Morris has been dispatched to the scene she realizes the very real terror no parent should have …

THE PUMPKIN MAN by John Everson (Delirium Books – June 2011) After her father’s gruesome murder, Jenn needed a place to get away from it all with some friends, to take her mind off her grief. The empty seaside cottage she inherited seemed perfect. Jenn didn’t know that the cottage held arcane secrets, mysteries long hidden and best left alone. …

J-HORROR: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE RING, THE GRUDGE AND BEYOND (PAPERBACK) Author David Kalat Published by Vertical Publication Date: 2007 Format: B&W – 320 pages Price: $14.95 At long last an Asian horror book written for the consumers. Don’t get me wrong there are plenty of great Asians horror books on the market. However most of them are pretty …