Book Review: Massacre at Lonesome Ridge, by Samantha Warren

A massacre at a small native american village leads to the survivors invoking a dark spirit, who turns them into zombies so that they may seek vengeance against the white men that slaughtered their families. The story opens with Little Bear, the village shaman’s grandson and heir, out on a romantic walk with his fiancee, […]

Book Review: Max Brook’s World War Z

Its very rare to find a peice of creative writing that goes beyond just being a clever use of words, structures and gimmicks that is worthy of commercial and literary success; and yet World War Z is just such a work. A great many people will be put off by the oral history (interview) format […]

Book Review: Camdeboo Nights by Nerine Dorman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars To relegate Camdeboo Nights to being a mere gothic romance would be unfair and inaccurate, although a romance between a vampire and a young woman is at the center of this tale. Despite its misleading cover, Camdeboo Nights is an urban fantasy novel mixing western superstitions with the more […]

Book Review: Hollowland by Amanda Hocking

Hollowland is the first in what is probably going to be a trilogy that takes on the now tired zombie apocalypse sub-genre. If the author’s name sounds familiar, its because Amanda Hocking (amandahocking.blogspot.co.uk)is a member of a very small group of authors who has become a millionaire through self-publishing her writing, which is no mean […]

Halloween Special: Dead Streets by Tim Waggoner

Dead Streets by Tim Waggoner My rating: 4 of 5 stars Do you find any of the following scary? 1. Vampires 2. Werewolves 3. Ghosts 4. Zombies 5. Monsters 6. Demons If the answer to any of the above is yes, then wait till you get a load of the mean streets of Nekroplis. If […]

Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Knife of Never Letting Go. The cover is a clue to what this book is going to be like. The typography wouldn’t look out-of-place on a horror movie and looks like it was written with the tip of a knife, […]

Review: Tim Waggoner’s Nekropolis

Nekropolis: A Matt Richter Novel by Tim Waggoner My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nekroplis is a strange concoction of genres. Its a detective story set in a fantasy background with every describable (and some indescribable)monster from horror featured in it. Its perhaps why it took Nekroplis so long to be taken up by a […]

Review: Will Hill’s Department 19

Department 19 by Will Hill My rating: 4 of 5 stars Department 19, a covert government agency, was set up by Van Helsing and the small group of men who survived the destruction of Dracula. A fresh spate of killings across Western Europe alerted them to the fact that Dracula had made three other vampires, […]

Review: Tracie McBride’s Ghosts Can Bleed

Ghosts Can Bleed is an eclectic collection of short stories and poems, in fantasy, horror and sf genres, by New Zealander, Tracie McBride. The titular story is about a chap called Maurice, who believes he is dead and is trying to convince his wife of this fact but all is not as it seems. The […]