The End of the Story: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume One Edited by Scott Connors and Ron Hilger Night Shade Books September, 2015 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings The first in a five-volume series, The End of the Story: The Collected Fantasies of...
The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft Edited by Aaron J. French JournalStone December, 2015 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Much has been said recently about Howard Phillips Lovecraft. A fair amount of it has been stridently negative. He has been ridiculed for his facial...
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story Written by Jeff Jensen Illustrated by Jonathan Case Dark Horse Books September 13, 2011 Reviewed by Elaine Pascale Synopsis: Throughout the 1980s, the highest priority of Seattle-area police was the apprehension of the Green...
Hellbound Written by Victor Gischler Illustrated by Riccardo Burchielli Dark Horse Books October 6, 2015 Reviewed by Jess Landry If the grittiness of True Detective and the supernatural elements of The X-Files got together for a gory little satanic ritual one evening...
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...