Monster Hunter International – Book Review
Monster Hunter International Larry Correia Baen 2009 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings Larry Correia’s Monster Hunters International is a hoot…literally, figuratively, and every way in between. More than that, however, it is deeply, essentially comedic on multiple...
Tin Men – Book Review
Tin Men Christopher Golden Ballantine Books June 23, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Christopher Golden’s latest novel, Tin Men, is a rip-roaring science-fiction military adventure that starts at breakneck speed and never lets up until the last words fall off the page....
Mutt – Book Review
Mutt Shane McKenzie Rothco Press March 27, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Shane McKenzie has become known, in recent years, as a quality writer of extreme horror. His work often deals with interesting and diverse themes like gluttony and lucha libre, set against the...
Black Star, Black Sun – Book Review
Black Star, Black Sun Rich Hawkins April Moon Books February 15th, 2015 Reviewed by Stuart Conover In Black Star, Black Sun, Rich Hawkins gives us a wonderful tale of Lovecraftian delight! In the novella we follow Ben Ottway who, after the loss of his wife, is...
May JournalStone Hellnotes Newsletter
I have to start the newsletter this month by saying CONGRATULATIONS to Joe R. Lansdale! "Fishing With Dinosaurs," his contribution to Limbus II, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction at the Horror Writers Association convention in Atlanta...
Q Island – Book Review
Q Island Russell James Samhain Publishing July 7, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter The latest novel from Russell James, Q Island, is a thoroughly entertaining horror novel. It’s a story of an epidemic, a possible pandemic, that ravages the Long Island portion of New York....
Dark Screams: Volume Three – Book Review
Dark Screams: Volume Three Edited by Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar Hydra, an imprint of Random House May 12, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter The third volume in Freeman and Chizmar’s Dark Screams anthology series delivers the same high quality big name...
The Biggest Names in Horror Come Together for JournalStone Publishing’s ‘The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft’
JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft, a brand new anthology that collects the twelve principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose within its pages. Featuring the biggest...
Little Girls – Book Review
Little Girls Ronald Malfi Kensington June 30, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Ronald Malfi manages to yet again live up to his own high standards, and even exceed them, with his latest offering, Little Girls. It is a haunted house story (maybe), a ghost story (maybe) and...
Mercy House – Book Review
Mercy House Adam Cesare Hydra – an imprint of Random House June 9, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter “This was a house of death, a nice one with decent food, but nobody came to Mercy House to get better.” In his fourth full length novel, Adam Cesare marks some serious leaps...
Bad Bratwurst – Book Review
Bad Bratwurst Jeff Strand White Noise Press May 4th, 2015 Reviewed by Sheri White Klaus realizes his bratwurst business is failing, and rants to his only employee, Stefan. Stefan suggests they try something different with their product, only to anger Klaus, who knows...
‘Darker Places’ Blog Tour – Shaun Allan’s Top 10 Horror Films
Welcome to Shaun Allan's Darker Places tour. Today, Shaun is sharing some of his favorite horror movies! Shaun Allan's Singularity Books is proud to introduce Darker Places! What if you could steal the final moments from the dying? What if you had the darkest secret,...
Beware the Forest – Order ‘Spiritwood’ Now!
A town called Spiritwood, bordering the massive Chequamagon National Forest, gets its name from an old Native American legend of Indian spirits living in the woods surrounding the town...the thing is, the legend is true. When Jed Guiness, a wood sculptor, moves to...
Shadowshift – Book Review
Shadowshift Peter Giglio DarkFuse June 2, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Shadowshift by Peter Giglio is a dark and, at times, brutal horror novel. It follows the Mitchell family as they deal with supernatural powers that they don’t fully understand or appreciate. Chet,...
Within – Book Review
Within Keith Deininger DarkFuse May 5, 2015 Reviewed by Tim Potter Within by Keith Deininger is an interesting and dark new horror novel that succeeds largely on the merits of it's realistic characters and vivid locale. In fact, the town of Mesa Rapids is so well...
