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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...