Rating: 4 out of 5 Ronald Kelly’s The Halloween Store and Other Tales of All Hallows’ Eve is a collection of seven stories (plus an essay). As you might guess from the title, they all have to do with Halloween…
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Review: “Brain Storm,” Cat Gilbert
Rating: 3 out of 5 In Cat Gilbert’s Brain Storm (The Taylor Morrison Psychic Thrillers Book 1), Taylor is just starting to realize she’s a telekinetic. Most of the signs she could see as her imagination running wild, but when…
Review: “Elsewhere,” Dean Koontz
Rating: 3 out of 5 Dean Koontz’s Elsewhere is the author’s take on the multiverse theory. Jeffrey/Jeffy and his daughter Amity live by themselves, as Amity’s mother left them a long time ago. A local homeless man, Ed (Amity calls…
Review: “Girl on Fire,” Gemma Amor
Rating: 5 out of 5 Gemma Amor’s Girl on Fire is a wonderful, wild ride of a book. Ruby Miller crashes her car and is inside of it when it goes up in flames. Yet somehow she survives unscathed. Shortly…
Review: “Clown in a Cornfield,” Adam Cesare
Rating: 4 out of 5 Adam Cesare’s Clown in a Cornfield is a really interesting take on a slasher novel. The adults and teens in the tiny, boring town of Kettle Springs aren’t getting along all that well these days.…
Short Take: “Go Down Hard,” Ali Seay
Rating: 4 out of 5 Ali Seay’s thriller novella Go Down Hard introduces us to Jack and Meg. Each is a serial killer. Each lives out in the middle of nowhere. Each has their own reason for killing–for Jack it…
Review: “Operation North Sea,” William Meikle
Rating: 5 out of 5 Operation: North Sea is the latest “S-Squad” book from William Meikle. This is a series with plenty of military-vs-monsters fun with a touch of horror (occasionally a hint at cosmic horror), and a touch of…
Review: “The Cassowary,” James Sabata
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 James Sabata’s The Cassowary is meant to loosely go with Alan Baxter’s “The Roo” (possessed kangaroo), Stephanie Rabig’s “Playing Possum” (were-possums), and “The Buck Stops Here” by Sean Seebach (were-deer). Each novel is a monster…
Review: “The Buck Stops Here,” Sean Seebach
Rating: 2 out of 5 When I saw someone recommending Sean Seebach’s novella The Buck Stops Here on Twitter, it was mentioned as being similar to Alan Baxter’s “The Roo” (demonically-possessed kangaroo) and Stephanie Rabig’s “Playing Possum” (were-possums!). In other…