“You tell me why’s a man’s blood is any better or any more precious than a dog’s blood? It sure ain’t to the dog.” --Avery Allan Ludlow, Senior Jack Ketchum, the nom de plume of Dallas Mayr, is a horror writer. However, his trade is that of the all-too-real horrors of...

I often tell my friends that true classic horror films died when Hammer Films made their last film in the late 1970s. Sure, there was a television series in the eighties, but the company ceased to produce films after it’s failed attempt to remake Hitchcock’s 1938...

When fans of horror fiction hear the name Ramsey Campbell, they know that he is one of the most famous British horror writers alive today. Campbell is a writer who has been horrifying fans of novels since the early 1960’s when his first Lovecraft-like collection of...

As a web critic, I write a lot of reviews. Some weeks are slow and maybe I’ll do one or two, while others can be hectic and I could write as many as twelve. It’s not a job that pays the bills, but it does have its benefits. However, to take all the reviews I have...

“Wanted UnDead or Alive” is a thorough and often insightful examination of the nature of good and evil, concentrating on the conflict between humans and supernatural evil. While offering plenty of perceptive analysis of their theme, the writing style is fast paced and...

“Overwinter,” by David Wellington is a fast-paced and highly original werewolf thriller. In its predecessor “Frostbite,” Cheyenne (Chey) Clark was transformed into a werewolf by Montgomery Powell, and much of that novel was explored their complex relationship with one...

“Blood Prophecy,” by Stefan Petrucha, is a fast-paced supernatural and historical thriller that is highly entertaining, frequently scary and often provocative. When I realized I was about to review a vampire tale, I will admit the release of a weary sigh. Frankly, I...

“Frankenstein’s Monster” is a faithful literary sequel to Mary Shelley’s classic, set ten years later. It is narrated almost exclusively from the point of view of the mad scientist’s surviving creature, still unnamed until about a third of the way through when he...

“Apocalypse of the Dead” is a zombie epic packed with non-stop action and horror and a huge cast of well crafted characters. This is the follow-up to “Dead City,” which explained the origin of the zombie plague at hand, a by-product of a Katrina-like hurricane on the...

“Concrete Jungle” by Brett McBean is a fast-paced short novel exposing the effects on five victims trapped inside a parking garage after an inexplicable attack by Nature. As the title suggests, full grown trees, labyrinthine vines, and even bodies of water crash into...

“Viking Dead” is the latest novel in a series of stand-alone novels “Tomes of the Dead” from Abaddon Books. The series explores the theme of the undead from various settings and time periods. This book is set in the Age of the Vikings—976 A.D., Northern Europe. Bjolf,...

“The Infection” by Craig DiLouie is one of the best novels I have read in a long time. Notice I did not simply say one of the best horror novels, though that is also true. This is great writing—relentless and unflinching--a gritty, realistic and appropriately gruesome...

“Dead Stay Dead” by Paul Jessup is an imaginative novella that mixes college kids, zombies, ghosts, a little Lovecraft Mythos and a whole lot of fun. It is part of a novella series from The Zombie Feed, and if this is typical of its quality, this looks to be a fine...

“Population Zero” by Wrath James White is a relentless, graphic and disturbing short novel of extreme horror. It is definitely not for the squeamish or easily disturbed or offended but it is very well written and breathlessly paced. It does not cross the line to being...

Cult favorite Edward Lee’s “The Haunter of the Threshold” is a sequel to H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark,” set in the modern day backwoods of New Hampshire. Lee brings back Lovecraft’s Shining Trapezohedron and this novel’s Gray Cottage is a contemporary...