The Montauk Monster Hunter Shea Pinnacle Books (June, 2014) ISBN: 978-0786034758 352 pages; $7.99 PB Reviewed by David Goudsward Hunter Shea’s latest opus sends mixed messages. It starts off like a Peter Benchley novel, drifts off into a hybrid of a Dan Brown...
Topsiders Scott Tyson Legume Man Books (December 6, 2013) ISBN 978-0987466570 $10.95 PB; $2.99 Kindle 214 pp. Reviewed by Matthew Scott Baker When it comes to horror in general, there are many avenues through which terror can be unleashed. One of my favorites is via...
Dark Arts Thomas F. Monteleone Thunderstom Books 2014 $75 HB 225 pages Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Veteran horror writer Tom Monteleone is the author of countless short stories and novels and a four- time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. As a well-deserved homage to...
Fearful Symmetries Edited by Ellen Datlow ChiZine Publications, May 20, 2014 ISBN-13: 9781771481939 $13.17 PB, $10.61 Kindle Reviewed by Jess Landry With nearly thirty years’ experience, over fifty anthologies under her belt and more awards than you can shake a bloody...
This Freshest Hell Natasha Ewendt Golden Orb Creative ISBN 978-1922198068 $20 PB; $7.99 Kindle Reviewed by Gordon White Natasha Ewendt’s first novel, This Freshest Hell (Lacuna Publishing 2013), is defined by growing pains. Young outcasts Maggie and Lily...
THE SQUID WHORES OF THE FULTON FISH MARKET Charie D. La Marr James Ward Kirk Publishing ISBN: 978-0615946078 $8.09 PB; $2.99 Kindle Reviewed by William J. Grabowski I’m no advocate of labeling fiction, seeing this—rightly—as an aspect of commerce. After all,...