Shock Totem 3: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted K. Allen Wood, Editor Shock Totem Publications Trade Paper, 142 pages, $6.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Shock Totem is back on track! After a second issue that didn’t live up to the promise of the first,...
By The Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel F. Paul Wilson Forge Books, 2008, 350pp, $25.95. Review by Wayne C. Rogers As I mentioned a couple of postings ago, By The Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel by F. Paul Wilson won me over before I even started reading it. Being a lover...
Pale Demon Kim Harrison Harper Voyager Hardcover, 448 pages, $26.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt In the movie The Wizard of Oz, there is a question: “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?” Rachel Morgan, the protagonist of Kim Harrison’s Pale Demon, is...
Curse of the Full Moon Edited by James Lowder Ulysses Press Trade Paperback, 377 pages, $ 14.95 Review by Mario Guslandi In horror fiction there are three archetypes which survive the passing of the years: vampires, zombies and werewolves. Vampires never went out of...
The Between Years: A Novel Derek Clendening Naked Snake Press Trade Paper, 268 pages, $7.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt The tragedy of losing a child is devastating. The depth of feeling should hit on many levels. Yet, in The Between Years, the emotion is muted. The...
Hyenas Joe R. Lansdale Subterranean Press, 2011, 100 pages Signed, numbered, limited edition, -$45.00 Trade hardcover, 25.00 Review by Wayne C. Rogers Okay, allow me to get this off my shoulder, and then we’ll move on to the novella. The cover of Hyenas is...
