Night Shade Books announced its newest arrivals this week. Here, we list the top three:
Precious Dragon by Liz Williams: the new Detective Inspector Chen novel. Chen and Zhu are given a major assignment to escort an emissary from heaven on a diplomatic mission to hell. Zhu tries to dodge his demonic family’s overtures, but […]

The Sunday, July 22nd program at the Aero Theater (1328 Montana Ave in Santa Monica) is a 3:00 PM Family Matinee screening of The Monster Squad, (1987, Lions Gate, 82 min.), sponsored by Creature Features. Fred Dekker directs this adventuresome tale of a group of young kids who form a club that is devoted to […]

Principal photography has begun in Jones, Alabama, on Scream Farm, a new horror film from the producers who brought you Vampyre Tales and The Deepening (starring Gunnar “Leatherface” Hansen from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and International Scream Queen Debbie Rochon).
In Scream Farm, Allied Horror (in association with Nytemare Productions and Wicked Dreams Entertainment) tackles the zombie […]

Smiling Faces Sometimes
Gary Braunbeck
Art by Keith Minnion
White Noise Press, Chapbook $10.00
Reviewed by Nickolas Cook
One of the most dependable writers of deeply moving and emotionally loaded horror fiction is Gary Braunbeck. His newest chapbook release from White Noise Press, Smiling Faces Sometimes, holds true to that trusty tradition, as he tells the story of Alan, […]

Gauntlet Press wasn’t happy with the cover rendition for Ray Bradbury’s Somewhere A Band Is Playing because the colors were a bit muted. This will only set the book back a short period of time. Since this was a Bradbury painting, Gauntlet wanted the dust jacket cover to resemble the original art as closely as […]