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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology Edited by Christopher Golden In his foreword to this anthology (titled ‘The New Dead’ if you’re in the US), Christopher Golden asks his reader what the big deal about zombies is these days. That’s quite a brave move to make considering that the foreword comes just before a whole
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The Night is for Hunting (The Tomorrow Series #6) by John Marsden The novel starts right where the last one ended, with Ellie, Homer, Kevin, Lee, and Fi in Stratton, hiding out in what used to be Ellie's grandmother's house. Life in the city is beginning to get rough–food is getting hard to find and
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The Extra by Michael Shea Reality television is one of the reasons that I stopped paying for a TV licence; it got to a point where that there was so much of it on television that there just wasn’t room for any of the stuff that I actually wanted to watch. There’s something compelling about
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The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett In The Warded Man, Brett had introduced a world in which demons rise from the ground each night, slaughtering anyone they can catch. And each night the people of the land cower behind the only defenses that they have, specialized wards that the demons are unable to cross.
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The Passage by Justin Cronin The atmosphere has more the entertainment thriller vibe of Stephen King’s THE STAND than the bleak, literary vibe of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD. And while it falls squarely into the post-apocalyptic genre, I loved that there were a couple of limited-reach dystopian societies thrown in for good measure. The central
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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology edited by Christopher Golden In the Foreword, editor Christopher Golden asks, “Why are we fascinated by zombies?” I’m not sure “The New Dead” anthology ever adequately answers that question, but it does provide readers with a collection of short stories that not only celebrates the zombie genre, but also
about 7 months ago - 1 comment
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene The night before, everything was fine and just as it should be. The following morning the residents of Walden woke up to find… nothing. Beyond the town limits lies nothing but darkness. Nothing can get through and the people of Walden don’t even know if there
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Darkness Calls By Marjorie M Liu Darkness Calls is a good second book in a very promising series. It was not quite as good as Iron Hunt, but definitely still very good. I am impressed with this series so far. A little something different with the addition of an alien-esque quality (different creatures from different
about 8 months ago - No comments
Weird year, but read some great books. Here is a few of them, in no particular order other than the order I remember them in…. Castaways by Brian Keene A fitting tribute to Richard Laymon. Very enjoyable quick read. Can’t get enough of Brian Keene! Deadlock (John Hutchinson, Book 2) by Robert Liparulo Fault Line:
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A Dark Matter by Peter Straub This is a convoluted but enjoyable horror thriller as Peter Straub keeps the audience guessing whether what happened was a group psychological hysteria or something evil from beyond. All of the survivors realize they do not have total recall of what occurred in spite of the college student’s death.
Castaways by Brian Keene
about 1 year ago
I’m very excited for this one. Huge fans of both Brian Keene and Richard Laymon and I’m sure Keene is fully capable of a fitting tribute to the late master of horror!