World War Z – Book Review
Holly shit, finally one of you publishers got it right with me. The best way to get Horror Bob to review your book is to send him an audio book. So Random House, thanks for thinking of me. Anyway on with the review..... World War Z is fucking awesome. Plan and simple....
Shadows in the Mist – Book Review
I honestly feel bad that at first that I passed on this book. I didn't think it was going to be something I was going to enjoy. But I was wrong, because Brain Moreland has created a great horror novel. I'll admit I only cheated myself by not having this book sent to...
John Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness – Book Review
Recently Silman-James Press sent me a copy of horror director John Carpenter. Director of such great classic horror films a Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Assault of Precinct 13, Escape from New York and L.A., and In the Mouth of Madness. The book is basically one...
Puzzleman – Book Review
Christopher Alan Broadstone is H.P Lovecraft Reincarnated. He may not write like Lovecraft, but he has a mind just like the man. let's put it this way, Chris is so talented I would trust the guy directing my own work, and writing my ideas into a novel, and I'm the...
The Association (2007) – Book Review
Famed director Stanley Kubrick enjoyed the quote by American novelist William S. Burroughs, “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.” Bentley Little fittingly paraphrases the adage early in his satirical tale of social tyranny, The Association....
Cell – Book Review
Stephen King--in his tribute to the subgenre of post-apocalyptic zombie horror, Cell--presents a scathing satire upon what many would agree to be the epitome of modern technology: the cell phone. Given his notoriety for producing escapist pulp horror fiction, the...
Videohound’s Cult Flicks and Trash Pics – Book Review
I saw this at Borders and knew I had to look at it. What I found was a 4 pound book filled with reviews, pictures, and movie quotes. Not only does it review more than 1,300 movies, Videohound has included a forward by Bruce Campbell and has inserted salutes to...
Twisted Rhymes – Audio Book Review
This is going to be a short review. I really don't review these kinds of audio CDs for the site, but I figured that being that Halloween is around the corner that I might as well give it a shot. I'm kind of happy that I was given the opportunity to listen to this CD....
Dark Harvest – Book Review
It can be argued that, among horror fans, there are few things as sacred as the time honored traditions of Halloween. Unstoppable slashers, jack-o-lanterns, trick-or-treat, and gore galore are but a few of these wonderfully dreadful customs we revel in every October,...
The Blade Itself – Book Review
Have you heard of Joe Abercrombie? The author of what is very likely 2007s greatest fantasy offering and what is shaping up after one volume to stand among the top genre trilogies ever penned? No worries, friends, you will soon. With the American release of the first...
The Lurker in the Lobby – Book Review
Andrew Migliore and John Strysik’s Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft is a love letter, not only to the gothic American writer, but to those who have likewise took the time to puzzle their way through Lovecraft’s mythos, adapting his tales...
The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) – Book Review
Austrian author Franz Kafka, in a few short weeks with Wittgensteinian compositional labor, penned what many consider to be one of the greatest works of 20th century literature, The Metamorphosis. More fascinating perhaps, and in many respects as ironical as the...
The Lime Twig – Book Review
American novelist John Hawkes is often accused of penning unnecessarily convoluted, pessimistic tales which shamefully hide behind the curtain of postmodernism. Many of these commentators would indubitably cite David Foster Wallace’s distain for what he calls Bret...
120 Days of Sodom – Book Review
Begun on October 22, 1785 and manically written upon a piece of makeshift parchment measuring 12 centimeters by 12 meters (4.7 inches by almost 40 feet), Marquis de Sade crafted 16 microscopic words per square inch over the course of 37 days in order to produce his...
American Psycho – Book Review
Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 novel, American Psycho, is a torturous text, not only for the characters involved, but also the reader. Set in Manhattan in 1987 and ending at the offset of the following decade, the narrative follows the daily routine of one...