about 2 weeks ago - No comments
You’ve got a great idea for a book and you’re raring to go. You’re sure it will become a best-seller. You start to fantasize about the great jacket blurbs you’re going to get, and whom you will thank in your Oscar acceptance speech for Best Adapted Screenplay (you resolve to remember to thank both the [...]
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
Tourniquet by Kim Lakin-Smith
Kim’s novel is a riotous, sprawling dark fantasy. The three main characters will keep your attention throughout, and I hope that any further ‘Tales from the Renegade City’ will have them as an integral part of the story. A great deal of the minor characters stand out, Queenie and Lorcan in particular. [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
Cuts by Richard Laymon
Richard Laymon does it again. This book rocks right from the outset. The story takes place in 1975 and is about Albert Prince a dude who likes to cut people. At the start he wants to get laid and thinks he is in with a chance until the girl asks for cash. [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
Thieving Fear by Ramsey Campbell
It’s impossible, as a reader, not to get caught up in the panic felt by each of the protagonists. For a novel in which there is barely any gore, the scares come from a deeply psychological angle. For me, Campbell has always been a master of the psychological scare and Thieving [...]
about 9 months ago - 1 comment
The Garbage Man by Joseph D’Lacey
The story begins in a town called Shreve, on a moonlit midsummer night. Two of Shreve’s residents are meeting secretly to perform a ritual understood by just one of them and resented by the other. There’s Agatha, a young woman who can’t wait to leave Shreve behind for better things. [...]
about 10 months ago - No comments
Hater by David Moody
Moody has crafted an intelligent and powerful novel. And an isolating one. One that traps you in your own skin, forcing you into self-reliance. Not because of the stranger on the street who’s a Hater, but because of your wife, or child, who suddenly becomes one. What do you do when those [...]
about 11 months ago - No comments
My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror by Thomas Ligotti
There’s a chilling insidiousness to Ligotti’s work that held me spellbound through each tale. I’ve already read through the book twice; the first time to read through for review, then a second time for the sheer enjoyment of Ligotti’s use of language. [...]
about 11 months ago - No comments
Through a Glass, Darkly by Bill Hussey
In the opening paragraphs of the book the reader is introduced to Jack Trent, a man being forced to witness desperate visions by some very personal inner demons, visions he has not suffered for twenty years until the story begins.
Still reeling from the effects of Jack’s harrowing vision, the [...]
about 11 months ago - 1 comment
Meat by Joseph D’Lacey
Meat reaches far beyond being a purely horror novel. There’s a sharp moral edge to the telling of this story that is impossible for anyone reading the book to ignore. Sure, there are moments of gore within the tale, but the real horror is in the story’s capacity to make the reader [...]
about 11 months ago - No comments
Hater by David Moody
‘Hater’ is a book that strings out the tension until you can’t bear it then throws you to the ground and gives you a good kicking. When you see what happens to the people in the book you’ll be glad that a kicking is all you got…
Visceral, intense and highly recommended by [...]
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