Move over Jaws…here comes Sharktopus!! SyFy’s creature-feature, Sharktopus, will make its way to DVD and Blu-ray on March 15, 2011 from Anchor Bay Entertainment. An eight-tentacled nightmare hybrid of shark and octopus, “S-11” was created by genetic scientist Nathan Sands (Eric Roberts) as the U.S. Navy’s next super-weapon. But when its control implants are damaged during a training experiment off …

THE APOCALYPSE SHIFT Author Derek J. Goodman Published by Library of Horror Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W- 272 pages Price: $15.95 It is exceedingly difficult to blend horror and humor together in a way that appeases fans of both. The genres themselves are starkly different, catering to two completely separate tastes that often don’t mix well together at all. …

SPELLBENT (PAPERBACK) Written by Lucy Snyder Published by Del Rey Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 97 pages Price: $7.99 I imagined the people below sitting on their front porches, enjoying the evening breeze, sipping sweet lemonade or perhaps frothy cold beer. And then they’d look up to see a woman with a flame arm flying through the …

Ron Howard sat down with Deadline magazine and talked about the latest news regarding the Stephen King book series, The Dark Tower, that will begin filming sometime in 2013 to kick off the film trilogy and a companion tv series will go on in between the films which is pretty neat. Here’s what Ron Howard had to say about the …

Growing up in the Seventies, I was exposed to a large number of schlocky b-movie greatness. Watching Creature Feature on Channel 20, collecting Famous Monsters of Filmland and catching any horror theatrical release I could, I became a lifelong fan of the horror genre. Horror movies at the time were producing classics of the genre, masterpieces that were shaping the …

A hard economy usually means working hard to keep the doors open, but in the case of Eyes of Chaos, it was looking like “time” would have to be devoted more to the regular working class of 9-5 until things in the illustration world started to get back on track. With a whole slew of art on hand and over …

Sheep and Wolves By Jeremy C. Shipp Published by Raw Dog Screaming Press Cover design by Jennifer Barnes Book design by M. Garrow Bourke 164 Pages How often does a book give you the creeps or the willies? How often do you find yourself at a loss for words after reading story after story? “Sheep And Wolves” takes my words …

THE GREAT ALASKAN ADVENTURE…WITH ZOMBIES Author J. Kevin Burchfield Published by CreateSpace Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black /White – 138 pages Price: $9.95 There are so many books about zombies out there right now that it is nearly impossible to keep up with all of them. Some feature fast zombies that run like track stars. Some have zombies that slowly …

Standing 8 feet tall and weighing well over 500 hundred pounds, with reported sightings all over the world in all 50 states and on every single continent, comes one of the most exciting monster to ever come out of a creature-feature. It is probably the most well-known of all crypto-zoology myths, with tales abundant around every corner of the earth. …

THE HILLS HAVE EYES: THE BEGINNING (PAPERBACK) Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray Art by John Higgins Published by Harper Paperbacks Publication Date: 2007 Format: Color – 112 pages Price: $17.99 Most likely you have seen the films, past and present. With those you have come to know the horrifying details of families who go astray and get stranded …

THE GOLEM Author Edward Lee Published by Leisure Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: color – 323 pages Price: $7.99 As a reader of intense horror fiction I look for the very best that will have that one of a kind impact to gross me out, which is rare to do. If there’s an author out there that’s capable of grossing …

VAMPIRELLA #1 Author: Nicoli Cuti, Forrest J. Ackerman, Don Glut Artists: Neal Adams, Ernie Colon, Reed Crandall, Billy Graham, Mike Royer, Tom Sutton, Tony Tallarico Cover: Frank Frazetta Editor: Bill Parente Publisher: James Warren Publication Date: 1969 Format: – 66 pages Price: $.50 I will admit straight out, I know very little to almost nothing about the books that started …

TASTE OF TENDERLOIN Written by Gene O’Neill Published by Apex Publications Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 144 pages Price: $13.95 “The ‘Loin was without a doubt the armpit of the city. Because of the full moon, he knew that every panhandler, homeless person, hooker, junkie, and crazy would be hyped up and crowding the street…” Anyone that …

The childhood friend of a troubled Hollywood man who brutally killed his mother last month says his novel may have been the inspiration for the murder. Beau Henri Bruneau, 29, sits in a Broward County jail, charged with premeditated murder for the Oct. 30 killing of Nancy Bruneau. Paramedics found Nancy Bruneau's body on the front yard of her Hollywood home, with the severe trauma to her head. Now, 28-year-old Patrick Quéré, who grew up with Bruneau, attending middle and high school with him in the '80s and '90s, fears his new book may have helped lead Bruneau down a dark path.

Spirits and Death in Niagara By Marcy Italiano Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Niagara Falls and its surrounding area are full of history, dead and tales of ghostly encounters. Knowing the area well before reading “Spirits” I have been well aware of the history but am always interested in what new gems come up or how old stories are remembered. …

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR by Jack Ketchum Published by Leisure Books Publication Date: 2005 Format: Black /White – 370 pages Price: $7.99 “We were juveniles-not criminals but delinquents. So that under the law we were innocent by definition, not to be held accountable for our acts exactly, as though everybody under eighteen were legally insane and unable to tell right …