"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
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 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 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 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 →
by Jonathan Maberry "Still, it had held enough magic to kill the devil, and what more can you ask of a guitar than that?" Modern horror has a slightly different flavor than traditional, and especially classic, horror. When we look back on horror of the past we find ourselves saying things like, "this worked really well... Continue Reading →
by Al Sarrantonio Many folks first actual exposure to Al Sarrantonio's work may be the amazing anthology 999, and that's a very serious collection. If so, your expectations for Toybox should be high. Over the course of this read, and comparing back to that anthology, you may see a unique quality emerging. It's assembly, not... Continue Reading →
by Scott Smith A lot of people hate this book, and many others love it. There's very little middle ground. We have social and personal deconstruction here, mirrored with literal deconstruction, and it works horrifyingly so. It’s visceral and mean but not grotesque, and the book plays out like a movie. A small group of... Continue Reading →
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