Dark Hollow
Brian Keene
Leisure, paperback, 305 pgs, 2008, $7.99
Reviewed by Steve Vernon
“It was on the first day of spring that Big Steve and I saw Shelly Carpenter giving head to the hairy man.”
I am sitting here in my office, with my copy of John George Hohman’s Long Lost Friend and my Farmer’s Almanac, in the heart […]

Cemetery Dance Publications has announced three more books in their Cemetery Dance Signature Series.
Butterfly by Simon Clark. The dying days of WW2: Nazi secret weapons draw lines of fire in Germany’s skies. In the depths of a forest the pilot of a ME163 rocket-plane battles not only the formations of allied bombers but a […]

Who is Rambo? Google reveals more than 18,000,000 hits for him. The Oxford English Dictionary cites his name. Scores of scholarly articles have been written about him. President Reagan frequently referred to him in speeches. He is one of the most iconic and popular film characters of all time, […]

Omens
Richard Gavin
Mythos Books
Hardcover, $30.00
Reviewed by Sheila Merritt
“I was depositing my wife’s severed head into the soil beneath my basement floor when I heard the telephone ring.” That’s an attention grabber, isn’t it? It is the opening line of a story entitled “Daniel,” one of the dazzling diabolical dozen in this collection. Richard […]

The following market report on Doorways Magazine, as well as the follow-up interview are courtesy of Market Scoops by D.L. Snell.
The Market

Zine: Doorways
Editor: Mort Castle
Pay rate: 5¢ / word + copy
Response Time: 30 days (or longer during busy season)
Description (from the editor): Fiction that runs 500 - 3,500 words. Paranormal, […]