Stingy Jack R. Scott Taylor 2007 Booklocker.com. Inc 308 Pages $30.95 Trade Hardcover Book Review by Kent Knopp-Schwyn First novels are often a joy to read as they reinvigorate a tired or overlooked horror sub-genre (Zombies in The Rising) or they provide an amazing,...
Trailer Trash Scott T. Goudsward DarkHart Press Trade paperback, 280 pages, $14.99 Review by Keith Eure Trailer Trash is a first novel for Mr. Goudsward, I believe. It has some of the typical problems of a first novel, i.e. somewhat incoherent plot, typos, etc. Be...
The Seven Days of Peter Crumb Jonny Glynn Harper Perennial Trade Paperback, $13.95 Review by Sheila Merritt A lesson learned from reading horror fiction: Not all psychopaths are created equal. American Psycho and the Hannibal Lecter series have urbane, sophisticated...
Something Bad Richard Satterlie Medallion Press Paperback, 449 pgs, $6.99, 2007 Review by Steve Vernon Something Bad begins to happen in a typical American small-town of Boyston, Illinois. The action starts up in the local general store as Gabe Peterson is meeting...
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...
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...