I was waiting at the doctor’s office and this was the only thing I had downloaded, otherwise I never would have finished it. It’s just, well, kind of dumb – ridiculous thing after ridiculous thing. You can’t even really say there is a plot because everything that happens is so outlandish that anything could happen, so there is nothing to… Read more
The final installment (at least so far) in the Avery & Carter series is The Heart of the Mummy. Lucas Avery and Sam Carter find themselves working together again to stop the murderous rampage of an ancient Egyptian mummy. Professor Charles Cavendish, is an archaeologist and expert in ancient Egyptian culture. He embarks on an expedition to uncover a hidden… Read more
Okay, on to book two in the series, Werewolf on the Western Front. It’s 1916 and the height of World War II. Sam Carter and Lucas Avery are back – Sam serving with the Americans after sorting out his problems with the French Foreign Legion, and Lucas with British Intelligence. They find themselves at Kilometre Zero, near the Swiss border,… Read more
When is a vampire story not a vampire story? Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie is a story with vampires, but it’s not really about them. It’s about parents and children, and what a parent will do to save their child. It’s about what one is willing to give…and what the other is willing to take. The setting is the small… Read more
Nick Cutter’s The Deep starts out with a very promising premise: a strange plague is afflicting humanity on a global scale. Scientists have stumbled upon a possible cure — at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. In a desperate race to save the human race, governments have come together to build a research station at the bottom of the ocean, eight miles underwater. The… Read more
This one is from my personal library, recommended by someone on my Bookapalooza thread, and let me tell you: Starers by Nathan Robinson is one seriously creepy book! A little horror, a little family drama, maybe a little religion – and a lot of creepy suspense. This was a great one-sitting read. Dylan Keene is heading home from a night at… Read more
Folks, it pays to troll the Daily Deals and links on Amazon’s Kindle pages. That’s where I picked up Rage Against the Night, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings, with stories by all your favorites — Stephen King, Ramsey Cambell, Peter Straub, and more. The book is a fund-raiser for Rocky Wood, author, president of the Horror Writers Association and an expert on… Read more
Four Summoner’s Tales starts with an interesting premise. If you could truly raise people from the dead, of course, there would be people willing to pay you to do it, to bring their loved ones back. But wouldn’t there also be people willing to pay you not to do it? Could you blackmail that trophy wife, whose 90-year-old husband just left… Read more
I was very excited to receive this collection of stories. This is the third Ellen Datlow collection I’ve read, the second that I’ve reviewed, and I think she does a great job of choosing really interesting stories that all play to a theme. Blood and Other Cravings isn’t your typical book about vampires. These aren’t necessarily creatures that suck your… Read more
Jokers Club is a quick read with plenty of twists and turns. Geoff is a failed writer with a brain tumor, returning to his hometown for a reunion with old friends (who, for the most part, were more tormentors than friends). His friends start dying and weird things start happening, but its uncertain whether these are real or caused by… Read more