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Review: The Warrior’s Beckoning by Patrick Howard

The Warrior’s Beckoning by Patrick Howard is told in two parts in this first installment of the series. There’s a war between Light and Dark. A team gathers to fight an evil presence. Each team member was shown an address in a dream and all of them appeared at the address. They really don’t understand why they came together, but they all believe that arriving there was the right thing to do. In the first story the team finds a diary that contains key information. The second story introduces the Warrior, who is summoned by a woman he’s never met. […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T10:01:26+02:00October 3rd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Horror Book Reviews, Paranormal Book Reviews|

Review: The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden

The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden is eerie, magical and gritty, getting into the grimy seams of New Orleans in the tradition of Anne Rice or Poppy Z Brite. A taunting and mysterious chant haunts during the read,

Seven girls tied by time
Five powers that bind
One curse to lock the horror away
One attic to keep the monsters at bay

As Adele Le Moyne and her father make it back into the French Quarter following a Katrina-like storm; abandoned, musty streets stare back at them – with unfamiliar elements that send shivers through the Gothic South. When Adele […]

Cate Baum2019-01-22T05:59:04+02:00June 21st, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Horror Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

Review: The Brain Within Its Groove by L.N. Nino

The Brain Within Its Groove is a novella by L.N. Nino inspired by the poem of the same name by Emily Dickinson.

The book is written as a final confessional and memoir by a long-retired, previously-proud and renowned psychiatrist having succumbed to an overwhelming and mysterious mental illness. Now mostly paralyzed by his own mind and needing constant care from a young nurse, a shared reading of poetry and a question into his past triggers a severe breakdown, and for the worn out doctor to reminisce on a patient who seems to be the key to his condition.

Comparisons to […]

James Grimsby2014-05-11T22:53:30+02:00April 20th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Horror Book Reviews|

Review: The Hopeless Pastures by Keith Soares

A sequel to the uncommon zombie apocalypse short story The Oasis of Filth, The Hopeless Pastures by Keith Soares is a second part of a trilogy set in a United States no longer “united”.

As the mysterious plague RL2013 pushes humanity to the brink of extinction, where governments ensconce and bury the remaining citizens in distant walled cities. No phone lines, no internet, no questions, no disobedience, the world is painted as a fearful and empty place outside of the clinically-white walls of each city, as modern-day lepers nicknamed “zombies” emerge from places decried as “dirty”, and people are shut […]

James Grimsby2019-01-22T10:40:53+02:00January 9th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Horror Book Reviews, Zombie Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Oasis of Filth by Keith Soares

The Oasis of Filth by Keith Soares is a short story written as the memoirs of a man surviving through the modern “zombie apocalypse”. While many people may be thinking “oh no, not again”, let me put your fears to rest that this is not yet another Walking Dead or World War Z. This is a death of society by society, not by undead monsters; by the living, not the dead.

In 2013, several simultaneous cases of a dual instance of rabies and leprosy in patients, something incredibly unexpected by medical professionals of the time including the writer, a doctor […]

James Grimsby2019-01-21T09:38:52+02:00November 22nd, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Horror Book Reviews, Zombie Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Of Saints and Sacred Shadows by Jason Dean

Every one warned her. All of them said that she should not look for Sebastian Sane. No one could tell Lina who or what Sebastian was exactly. But they all said to stay away. If she valued her life, don’t try to find him. If she did find him, she should never trust him. Lina, though, wasn’t the type to scare easily. Would her stubbornness get her killed?

Jason Dean’s novel, Of Saints and Sacred Shadows, is a mesmerizing story that involves angels, demons, vampires, witches, police detectives, heinous crimes, and so much more. When Detective Richardson starts his investigation […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T05:46:53+02:00September 20th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Horror Book Reviews, Paranormal Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Patient Zero by Jim Beck

Just when I thought that the zombie subgenre had reached a saturation point, Jim Beck comes along with Patient Zero and proves that a clever idea can take an old idea and provide fresh flesh for hungry readers.

No pun intended.

Beck spins a simple story that is veined with strands of Frankenstein and moments of tenderness and melancholy. Bob Forrester is a man with a problem—a brain tumor. The recipient of an experimental procedure, he finds himself facing a second chance at life. Within just a short time, however, that new life becomes a mixed blessing, with side effects […]

Daniel Burton2019-01-21T09:38:59+02:00December 13th, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Horror Book Reviews, Zombie Fiction Book Reviews|