"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Brian Aldiss "When I woke, I was not dead." In the near future, time is becoming unhinged and Joe Bodenland inadvertently travels back to the 19th century where he meets Mary Shelley, the real Victor Frankenstein and the very real monster Mrs. Shelley wrote about. And as the original book so strongly implied, who’s... Continue Reading →
by John Shirley "Funny how here, the men posses demons and not vice versa." Demons is the story of indestructible, supernatural creatures ravaging the planet as unstoppable killing machines but not in large enough numbers to destroy the population. With the demon invaders numbering only a few thousand, though some can be in more than... Continue Reading →
by Joe Abercrombie “No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right.” A tough-as-nails woman, her pseudo-father and other unlikely companions gathered along the way track down a mercenary army across the brutal plains to retrieve her stolen brother and sister. This is a western containing the throwback violence... Continue Reading →
by Brian James Freeman “Screaming wouldn’t open doors, wouldn’t extinguish flames, and it certainly wouldn’t put the demon back in the basement.” This is a concise collection of short stories, like Dreamlike States and Weak and Wounded, and packs a nice punch into a small package. More Than Midnight consists mainly of traditional horror, dealing... Continue Reading →
by Al Sarrantonio “Ain’t you gonna ask me why I shot her in the back?” I said . . . “Because her front was too far away!” Here we have another solid collection from Mr. Sarrantonio, and while containing a number of excellent tales it falls a little short of his previously reviewed collection, Toybox.... Continue Reading →
by Hugh Howey "It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened." Due to extremely toxic factors on the Earth's surface, survivors eek out an existence in a huge, underground bunker. With the Earth's surface having been uninhabitable for hundreds, possibly thousands of years, the remaining men and women know of no other... Continue Reading →
by Dean Koontz “You don’t have to make the world peaceful,” she said. “It is to begin with. You just have to learn not to disturb things.” Mr. Koontz has an entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable, worth every penny and then some, but not often eye-opening. If you're a reader of his novels but haven't seen... Continue Reading →
by Jonathan Carroll "The Land of Laughs was lit by eyes that saw the lights that no one's seen." Carroll's first novel sets the stage for what becomes a kind of trademark later in his career, and his style is tough to explain. The words 'magic' and 'surreal' come to mind, but generally in Carroll's... Continue Reading →
by Clive Barker Originally published in ’97 as part of Douglas Winter’s Millennium, the stories ‘Men and Sin’ and ‘A Moment at the River’s Heart’ make up this release. Two men, 1,000 years apart, attempt to locate and exact revenge upon their spouses’ murderers. That is the plot in its oversimplified form, but laid over... Continue Reading →
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