Aloha from Hell Richard Kadrey Harper Voyager Hardcover, 448 pages, $23.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Sandman Slim returns to the underworld in Aloha from Hell. Author Richard Kadrey’s furiously funny fire-and-brimstone novel is a primer on how to write snappy,...
The Winter Chills Book Review Project is up and running. Originally proposed by Dylan at Monster Librarian (he’s the one who keeps it going), the book review project teams up a handful of horror related web sites all offering a variety of horror book reviews for...
Tattered Souls 2 Frank J. Hutton, Editor Cutting Block Press Trade Paper, 218 pages, $18.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt Psychically tortured individuals populate Tattered Souls 2, a fine anthology of eight stories that studies fear from odd perspectives. Included in...
11/22/63 Stephen King Scribner, $35.00, 2011, 849 pps Review by Wayne C. Rogers Until I finished Stephen King’s newest novel, 11/22/63, I’d only cried at the end of three of his books over the last thirty-four years. I remember tears filling my eyes during...
Demons John Skipp, editor Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Trade Paper, 640 pages, $18.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt This time of year, it is easy to tire of sweetness and light; benign angels bestowing their blessings on mankind. Thank heaven, or somewhere...
The Noctuary Greg Chapman Damnation Books, 2011 Review by Matthew Tait Greg Chapman’s Torment was published in March this year. Now, the Australian author has shifted gears in a largely new direction and created, via The Noctuary, a dark and wandering homage to...