"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Robert Marasco An unlikely pairing of smoldering dread and greased lightning, Burnt Offerings tells the tale of a married couple who happen upon a great deal for a summer home getaway, their young boy, the father’s aging aunt, and the few weeks they all spend together at the summer house to escape the pressures... Continue Reading →
by Arturo Perez-Reverte "The rainbow is the bridge between heaven and earth. It will shatter at the end of the world, once the devil has crossed it on horseback." Fans of the Polanski movie, The Ninth Gate, may recognize this book as the source, although the differences between the two are extensive. Written in Spanish... Continue Reading →
by Stephen King Nowadays everybody wants to talk like they’ve got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips, but The Stand. And mothafuckas act like they forgot about IT. First thing, there's no disparaging The Stand, that's just a catchy intro if you've ever listened to rap. His apocalyptic novel... Continue Reading →
by Peter Straub “The dark gained on them all.” Our title character Julia, wealthy by inheritance and obsessed with her daughter’s death years before, retreats from her husband, Magnus, and buys a house where she plans to live by herself. She begins seeing things in the house, including a strange little girl, and starts investigating the... Continue Reading →
by Robert McCammon “Something tore,” Spence said tonelessly. “Ripped open. Something won the fight, and I don’t think it was who the preachers said was gonna win.” Many of us perform a bit of research into any book before picking one up, mostly because they all take hours and we'd rather not waste our time.... Continue Reading →
by F. Paul Wilson “If he wants this world, he’s going to have to earn it!” Nightworld fully unites the surviving main characters from all previous books in the cycle into one cataclysmic battle vs. the end of everything. Mr. Wilson has a talent for building characters we fall in love with, then dispatching them... Continue Reading →
by F. Paul Wilson “No, Carol. He needs to learn all he can about the world. After all, it’s going to be his someday.” Reprisal continues the story of Father William Ryan, beginning about 20 years after the end of the previous book, Reborn. He has shed his identity, his priesthood, his friends and family,... Continue Reading →
by F. Paul Wilson “He had wanted to know, he had hungered for answers. The hunger had driven him to the farthest, darkest corners of the world, where he had learned too much.” The fourth book in the Adversary Cycle, Reborn functions as the first book in its own trilogy within the six book cycle.... Continue Reading →
by F. Paul Wilson "I forgot to say my prayers." "That's okay, Love," he said soothingly and she went back to sleep immediately. There's nobody listening anyway. The third book in the Adversary cycle, and the last of the standalones before the trilogy, this is best so far. Dr. Alan Bulmer, a general practitioner M.D.,... Continue Reading →
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