Pros: Intriguing! Cons: Two tones that don’t mesh Rating: 3 out of 5 Ike Hamill’s horror novel Fiero’s Pizza introduces Brian and Samantha, a young couple moving into a house and about to have their first baby. They eventually have…
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Review: “Eden,” Tim Lebbon
Pros: Fascinating premise with wild action! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 Tim Lebbon’s Eden shows us a world where “the Zones” are areas that have been given back to the planet. Pollution and other man-made problems were causing…
Short Take: “Crota,” Owl Goingback
Pros: Engaging creature-feature Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 CROTA is Owl Goingback’s short novel about a very fierce, old monster that emerges near a small town after an earthquake. Sheriff Skip has a run-in with it, but his…
Review: “Benny Rose the Cannibal King,” Hailey Piper
Pros: Absolutely, horrifyingly delightful! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 Hailey Piper’s Benny Rose, the Cannibal King pulls the reader into the town of Blackwood, Vermont, circa 1987. (This, in fact, was exactly when I was in high school…
Review: “The Dead Game,” Susanne Leist
Pros: Meh Cons: So chaotic, random, needlessly complicated, and self-contradictory Rating: 2 out of 5 Susanne Leist’s The Dead Game: Book One of The Dead Game Series sounded intriguing. Invitations to a party at an abandoned mansion, things turning deadly……
Review: “Playing Possum,” Stephanie Rabig
Pros: So much fun! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 You may or may not remember Alan Baxter’s The Roo [review], a classic-horror-style, terribly fun novel that started as a joke based on an article about an aggressive kangaroo…
Review: “A Penny for Your Thoughts,” Robert Ford, Matt Hayward
Pros: Like a horrific, paranormal house of cards! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 In A Penny For Your Thoughts: (The Lowback Series – Book 1), by Robert Ford and Matt Hayward, Joe has spent eight years in prison.…
Review: “White Pines,” Gemma Amor
Pros: Stunning rural cosmic horror Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 I absolutely love Gemma Amor’s horror novel White Pines. Megs (Megan) has just been informed by her husband that their marriage is over. Since she just inherited a…