Shock Totem Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted 2011 Ed. K. Allen Wood Shock Totem Publications, November 16th, 99 cents Review by Darkeva The first of its kind, Shock Totem Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted 2011 collects eight holiday-themed horror...
Dead of Winter Brian Moreland Samhain Publishing January 3, 2012, $11.32(paperback) Review by Darkeva Legion, the biblical demon, certainly gets around. He’s been in at least three novels I read this year, and it seems that readers continue to feel the impact of...
Feather David Rix Eibonvale Press, September 2011 Review by Matthew Tait Feather is an intricate latticework of nine separate novellas introducing the reader to a very original form of storytelling. Set against the backdrop of ocean and sea, David Rix introduces us to...
In the Shadow of Dracula Leslie S. Klinger, editor and annotator IDW Publishing Trade Paper, 432 pages, $16.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt “THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST” is engraved on a signpost in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest.” And the...
Damned Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday Hardcover, 256 pages, $24.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt The acerbic wit of Chuck Palahniuk abounds in Damned. A satire set in Hell, the novel hilariously examines hypocrisy and other human foibles. Referencing The Breakfast Club and...
The Crimson Pact Volumes I and II Ed. Paul Genesse Alliteration Ink, $4.99 each (Kindle) Review by Darkeva The Crimson Pact, an anthology that has (so far) produced two volumes with a planned third, started as a round robin where submitting writers continued the core...
