Simulacrum and Other Possible Realities Jason V. Brock. Hippocampus ISBN13: 97801061498-055-1 June 2013, $20.00, Trade paper Reviewed by Michael R. Collings It sometimes seems that stories—often much like their authors—have shapes and textures. Some feel warm and...
Blood Relations: A Good Mormon Girl Mystery Michaelbrent Collings Amazon Digital Services, Inc., March 2013 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings When my son first told me that his next novel would be a mystery, I was intrigued. Although he is pretty good at just about...
Night Terrors Jonathan Janz Samhain, June 2014 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings The full title of this volume is: Night Terrors: Savage Species, Part One. Readers should be forewarned to take it seriously for several reasons. First (and no spoiler is intended here),...
Murder as a Fine Art David Morrell Mulholland Books, May 2013 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Remarkable. Compelling. Intriguing. These and other words appear (perhaps too frequently) in review after review. I try to avoid them as much as possible since they suggest...
The Complete Drive-In: Three Novels of Anarchy, Aliens, & the Popcorn King. Joe R. Lansdale Underland Press, 2010 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings I first encountered the utterly outré world of the Drive-In through the original Bantam/Spectra paperback, purchased...