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...
Corrupts Absolutely? Dark Metahuman Fiction. Lincoln Crisler, editor. Damnation Books, 2012. Reviewed by Michael R. Collings “With great power comes great responsibility.” Yeah, right. Sometimes. But sometimes, with great power comes…other things. For one...
Cody Goodfellow, D.L. Snell, Tim Curran, David Conyers, and Brian M. Sammons Permuted Press eBook $4.99 277pp. 2012 Review by Andrew Byers Do we really need another anthology of Cthulhu mythos stories? Haven’t we seen all the possible permutations of Lovecraft’s...
Billy: Seeker of Powers (The Billy Saga). Michaelbrent Collings. CreateSpace, 2012. Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Several years ago, when my son began to think seriously about writing novels as well as screenplays, he began talking about a new project, a young-adult...