Veins
Lawrence C. Connolly, Illustrated by Star E. Olson
Fantasist Enterprises
Trade Paper, 248 pages, $15.00
Review by Sheila Merritt
The supernatural plays an important part in Lawrence C. Connolly’s novel Veins. There is Native American mysticism, and a mythic thread running through the book. These elements are not, however, horrific. The scariest parts of the work deal [...]

Vampire Zero
David Wellington
Three Rivers Press
Trade Paper, 320 pages, $13.95
Review by Sheila Merritt
Vampires in most current horror fiction are a paltry, pallid pack of paranormal posers. They are angst ridden, Byronic romantics torn between worlds. Thank goodness for David Wellington for giving the subgenre a much needed transfusion of vintage visceral blood. In [...]

The past two years we’ve partnered up with several other web sites in October to present what we’ve called the Halloween Book Review Project. The idea was originally proposed by Dylan At Monster Librarian. This year Monster Librarian, Horrorworld, Horror-Web, Hellnotes, FearZone HorrorDrive-In, and Dark Scribe Magazine will be offering up reviews of horror titles, [...]