Randalls Round Eleanor Scott Oleander Press Trade Paper, 175 pages, £8.95 Review by Sheila M. Merritt “And then quite silently the curtain at the window waved in some mysterious breath of night air – lifted for a second, and fell as silently.”...
Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story Jamie Wasserman Penumbra Publishing Paperback, 264 pages, $11.99 Review by Sheila M. Merritt It is easy to be struck by the title Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story. There is no allure of Bram Stoker’s...
Lilja’s Library: The World of Stephen King By Hans-Ake Lilja Illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne Cemetery Press, 2010, 508 pages, $40.00 Review by Wayne C. Rogers I’m only going to review the first half of Lilja’s Library: The World of Stephen King by...
Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories Edited by Joyce Carol Oates Library of America Hardcover, 832 pages, $35.00 Review by Sheila M. Merritt “Hysterically polite,” is a phrase employed by Shirley Jackson in the novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It...
What the Night Knows Dean Koontz Bantam Books, 2010, 442 pages, $28.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-80772-1 Review by Wayne C. Rogers The first book I read with Dean Koontz’s name on it was Demon Seed in 1973. A few years later, I read The Key to Midnight under his Leigh...
Full Dark, No Stars Stephen King Scribner, 2010, 368 pages, $27.99 Review by Wayne C. Rogers I don’t usually review Stephen King’s books. The reasoning behind this is because a million other people will already be doing reviews, plus every novel and...
