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Brother by Ania Alhborn/The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Double header book review. Both of these books involve serial killers but in very different ways. SPOILERS Brother by Ania Alhborn Michael is an awkward young man living in the … Continue reading

May 31, 2016 · 1 Comment

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

There has been a lot of hype and praise for this book (Stephen King apparently tweeted that this book scared the hell out of him) and many critics and readers have praised it. … Continue reading

September 4, 2015 · Leave a comment

Day Four by Sarah Lotz

Day Four is the follow-up/sequel to last year’s The Three. The story is set aboard a less than luxurious cruise liner on New Year’s Eve and is told from the … Continue reading

July 10, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Acolyte by Nick Cutter (2015)

This is the second Nick Cutter book I have read (haven’t decided if I want to read The Deep) and I would have to say it’s about as good as … Continue reading

June 15, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey (2014) Book Review

20 years after a deadly pathogen has ravished the globe (sounds familiar) and the world is not recovering from the spread of fungus that essentially turns people into flesh-eating zombies; … Continue reading

May 30, 2015 · 2 Comments

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Book review)

It’s twenty years after the world has been ravaged and destroyed by a deadly flu that wiped out a majority of Earth’s population, leaving it in ruins. Technology is gone, vehicles are … Continue reading

May 12, 2015 · Leave a comment

Dead of Night; The Troop; Coldbrook (3 Book Reviews)

As it has been awhile since I posted, here are 3 book reviews.  Vampiric worms, other dimensional zombies and good old science messing with Mother Nature abound in 3 different … Continue reading

July 28, 2014 · Leave a comment

Scary Shorts: Life Sentence by Kelley Armstrong

After reading “Omens”, the latest release from Canadian writer Kelley Armstrong, I decided to give some of her other work a try.  I read ‘Bitten’ when it was first published … Continue reading

February 24, 2014 · Leave a comment

Scary Shorts: In The Dust by Tim Lebbon

Here is another author that I have not read before, Tim Lebbon.  “In the Dust”, taken from the zombie anthology The New Dead, is my first experience reading this writer’s … Continue reading

February 16, 2014 · Leave a comment

Scary Shorts: The Woods Be Dark – Bentley Little

“The Collection” short story book marks my introduction to the dark mind of Bentley Little.  I have only read a couple of the stories and so far, I am enjoying … Continue reading

February 9, 2014 · Leave a comment