“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...
Jack Ketchum is one of those horror writers whose name no one will ever forget. All the Ketchum novels I have had the pleasure of reading all left me haunted by the horrors that he not only inflicts on his characters, but the pain and suffering he puts his readers...
Gord Rollo and Gene O’Neill are both heavy hitters in the horror game. The praise their work has received and the quality of their novels and short stories has made both of them known names in the horror community. Knowing this, I was excited to read “Mean...
I’ll admit that when I first saw the title, THE JIGSAW MAN, I thought I was going to dwell into a land that coincided with the SAW movies. I really thought it was going to be a book that dwelled in the unoriginal void of horror book and films that we’re...
There are some books that are just so good that when it comes time to write reviews about them I’m simply left speechless. Gord Rollo did this to me with the first book I read of his titled THE JIGSAW MAN. This may sound familiar and if does not it’s your...
There are some writers who, after writing one great piece of horror literature, have everything after that slow down their careers and they simply fade away. Writing is not what it was in previous decades, with fewer people reading books than ever before, and it is...
