Stephen King’s Battleground Gauntlet Press 2012; $75.00; 288 pgs; Review by William Simmons Featured in King’s first collection Night Shift, “Battleground” was a taunt assault on the nerves that injected demonic toys with force and personality in a battle between the...
Bottled Abyss Benjamin Kane Ethridge Redrum Horror June 2012. 332 pp. $12.99, trade paperback, Kindle edition, $2.99 Review by Michael R. Collings In Bottled Abyss, Benjamin Kane Ethridge takes upon himself an unenviable task. He sets out, not to re-interpret...
The Art of Luke Chueh Luke Chueh Titan Books Hardcover, 190 pages, $34.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Artist Luke Chueh’s work is difficult to put into words. The terms “irreverent,” “ironic,” “subversive,” and...
Best New Werewolf Tales Volume 1 Edited By: Carolina Smart Short Fiction By: Robert Elrod, Jonathan Maberry, James Roy Daley, John Everson, James Newman, David Bernstein, Simon McCaffery, John F.D. Taff, Rob Rosen, Michael Laimo, William Meikle, Douglas Smith, Rob E....
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu Sax Rohmer Titan Books Trade Paper, 256 pages, $9.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Fu-Manchu is a name that stirs up controversy. Horror movie fans are aware that the diabolical Asian character was portrayed onscreen by Boris Karloff and...
Torn Realities Ed. Paul Anderson Post Mortem Press $15.39 Review by Darkeva Although most readers outside horror have heard of Poe, Stoker, King, Barker, etc, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, one of the most prolific fantasists in the horror genre, deserves more accolades...