Mycroft Holmes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse Titan Books October 6, 2015 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon I am a major Sherlock Holmes fan. I have read every one of the Arthur Conan Doyle tales and many of the tributes, a.k.a. “Pastiches,” written by others...
Crawlspace John Gregory Hancock November 15, 2014 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon Haunted house novels can be a lot of fun but are full of logistical traps for the writer. A good haunted house novel is essentially a psychological horror novel; the haunting is important...
The Art of Horrible People John Skipp Lazy Fascist Press August 1, 2015 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon I have always been fond of writers who seem to write in hyperdrive. Whether it is Hunter S. Thompson, Harlan Ellison or Garrett Cook, I like the writers that let it...
Wet and Screaming Shane McKenzie Deadite Press June 12, 2015 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon In Shane McKenzie’s first collection of short fiction, Wet and Screaming, we get what we expect from a book by that title. McKenzie writes bizarre fiction that isn’t...
His Own Mad Demons David A. Riley Parallel Universe Publications April 13th, 2015 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon The central theme of the five stories in David A. Riley‘s original collection titled His Own Mad Demons is of the occult and demonology. Some of them take...
