The Dead Path Stephen M. Irwin Doubleday Hardcover, 384 pages, $25.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt The fairy tale fear of the haunted woods is superbly invoked in The Dead Path, Stephen M. Irwin’s debut novel. The author takes the dark road to terror, creating a...
Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever Joe Kane Citadel Trade Paper, 316 pages, $16.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt “We are in a typical rural cemetery, conceivably adjacent to a small church … although a church...
Strange Corridors Frank Chigas Medusa Press Hardcover, 357 pages, $40.00 Review by Mario Guslandi Disreputable places are the bread and butter of Frank Chigas’ fiction. Years after his first, extraordinary collection The Damp Chamber he’s back with a book...
It’s that time again. The Halloween Horrors Book Review Project is up and running. Originally proposed by Dylan at Monster Librarian (he’s the one who keeps it going), the book review project teams up a handful of horror related web sites all offering a...
Wings Over Manhattan Don D’Ammassa Bad Moon Books Trade Paper, 55 pages, $15.00 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Prohibition: A time of speakeasy clubs, gangsters, flappers, Japanese demons – Japanese demons? In Wings Over Manhattan, author Don D’Ammassa...
The Creature’s Curse Paul Braus River East Press Trade Paper, 212 pages, $9.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt “Never judge a book by its cover.” The Creature’s Curse has a lurid cover: An outstretched hand with long fingernails reaching toward the...
