Midnight Movie: A Novel Tobe Hooper and Alan Goldsher Three Rivers Press Trade Paper, 320 pages, $14.00 Review by Sheila M. Merritt There is an inherent irony about successfully writing raunchy, comic horror: It takes a deft delicacy to keep the yarn under control;...
Hell Rig J.E. Gurley Damnation Books March 1, 2011, $15.21 240 pages Review by Darkeva Hell Rig starts out like a common disaster movie plot: a group of men and one woman board onto a ship for the same reason and watch in horror as they each start going insane and...
The Silent Land Graham Joyce Doubleday March 29, 2011 Review by Shannon Riley O. Henry and British Fantasy Award winner Graham Joyce has written a number of notable books, including Indigo, The Tooth Fairy and Requiem, but none more memorable and disturbing than his...
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy Ellen Datlow, Editor St. Martin’s Griffin Trade Paper, 560 pages, $15.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt A teeming metropolis is a hotbed for the secretive and strange. In Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy, highly esteemed editor...
“Stray” Lee Allen Howard E-Book, 3,600 words Review by Darkeva “Stray” by Lee Allen Howard revolves around a troubled gay teenager runaway named Tad who has left behind an alcoholic and abusive father as well as a stepmother who hates him. He...
Blood and Rain B.L. Morgan Speaking Volumes, LLC 256 Pages, $14.95, Paperback Review by Darkeva He steals from the people he kills, he’s a lone wolf with a shady past, and he’s an ex-drug addict and former boxer involved in law enforcement. Meet John Dark,...
