BOOK REVIEW: YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU BY MARCUS HAWKE

“‘It will be alright,’ he croaked out. Even his voice had become foreign to him. ‘It will be over soon.’” ― Marcus Hawke, You Can’t Take It With You ON Christmas Eve, 1984, Montgomery Nolan faces the twilight of his life. To the casual observer, he embodies the essence of success—a self-made multimillionaire who has […]

BOOK REVIEW: ECHOES OF THE FORGOTTEN BY MICHAEL NUNN

“Will knew, although he couldn’t always see it, the man wore a menacing smile that raised higher on one side. Will referred to him as The Crooked Man.” – Michael Nunn, Echoes of the Forgotten IT WAS meant to be a fun night etched in their memories, a celebration of new beginnings as they embarked […]

BOOK REVIEW: DROOD BY DAN SIMMONS

  “He was cadaverously thin, almost shockingly pale, and stared at the writer from dark-shadowed eyes set deep under a pale, high brow that melded into a pale, bald scalp. A few strands of graying hair lept out from the sides of this skull-like visage.” –  Dan Simmons, Drood THE NOVEL Drood, by Dan Simmons, is […]

BOOK REVIEW: UPON THE PALE ISLE OF GLOAM: A GOTHIC HORROR NOVELLA BY MARK GULINO

“This place is damned.” – Mark Gulino, Upon the Pale Isle of Gloam: A Gothic Horror Novella    A DARK, atmospheric, often pensive narrative, Upon The Pale Isle Of Gloam: A Gothic Horror Novella by Mark Gulino, presents a moral tale about choices, accountability, and the possibility for redemption, but at what cost? The author delves into the […]

Review: Evil Cast: Volume 1 By Kyle Stück / Illustrations By Enrico Orlandi

HONESTLY, I was all in when I read “Think Evil Dead meets Scooby-Doo” in the blurb description for Kyle Stück’s Evil Cast: Volume 1. [Kyle’s image is on the left. I love the shirt!] I’m a sucker for imaginative, striking cover artwork, and this definitely caught my eye. And yes, it totally reminds me of […]

Review: The Haunting of Kinnawe House by Steven Rigolosi

THE HAUNTING of Kinnawe House, by Steven Rigolosi, is not your typical haunted house story. The author pushes the envelope far beyond the genre’s expected gothic ghost trappings. The supernatural horror is afoot here, but the novel moves more in the direction of the Satanic, not the spooky, with themes of occultism, human sacrifice, and […]