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Black Mad Wheel By Josh Malerman

March 25, 2018 by Bob Leave a Comment

Josh Malerman’s Black Mad Wheel is an excellent tale of a 1950s army band recruited to track down a mysterious musical weapon (and its equally mysterious owner) in the South African desert. The title could refer to vinyl records or the spin of  reel-to-reel recording decks. It might refer to the tires of an army […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Novels, Thriller Tagged With: 1950s romance, military fiction, musical fiction, sound weapon, time travel

The Croning by Laird Barron

July 15, 2015 by Bob 1 Comment

Something amazing happens in Laird Barron’s The Croning. The hero saves the day simply by forgetting to act. He agrees to let his mind rot away (perhaps the most terrifying fate of all) while his witchy woman makes off with their newborn grandchild. That’s the happiest ending possible in this twisted tale that combines the legend […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Ebooks, Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery / Suspense, Novels Tagged With: cosmic horror, folklore, hollow earth theory, HP Lovecraft, Laird Barron, legends, Rumplestilskin, secret satanic societies, space demons, The Croning, witches

Our Great Abbess by C.L. Holmes

March 1, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

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In the interest of full disclosure, I was fortunate to read an early draft of C.L. Holmes’s Our Great Abbess, and I enjoyed it so much, I asked if I could publish it. Read more about Abbess below, or go get it here. Our Great Abbess blends historical fiction and religious horror to tell a […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Historical fiction, Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Religious horror Tagged With: Bad Hound Press, book review, C. L. Holmes, convent, debut novel, faith, historical fiction, nuns, Our Great Abbess, rape, religious horror, siege, starvation, torture, women's empowerment

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron

January 6, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

Laird Barron writes weird. Barron is a good writer, but the stories contained in his collection, The Imago Sequence  and Other Stories, are sometimes hard to figure. You’ll need a dictionary, good map skills, and a working knowledge of mythology, world religions, philosophy, horror fiction, and crime pulps to make heads or tails of these […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Crime Fiction, Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Short Story Collection / Single Author, Supernatural Thriller Tagged With: book review, Crime fiction, Existence, Hardboiled crime, Henchmen, horror, Imago Sequence, James M. Cain, Jim Thompson, Laird Barron, Philosophy, Raymond Chandler, Religion, Tough guys

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

November 30, 2014 by Bob Leave a Comment

Is corn scary? It is a rather bizarre plant. It grows tall and fast and has vaguely human qualities, like corn-silk hair and ears. I never really thought corn was scary, until I read Stephen King‘s Children of the Corn as a teenager. King made corn creepy. But before King conjured the Children of the […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Novels, Supernatural Thriller Tagged With: cunning females, Harvest Home, rural gothic, scary corn, Thomas Tryon, village witches, wimpy males

Horns by Joe Hill

August 27, 2014 by Bob Leave a Comment

Every single one of us has got the devil inside, and nobody knows it better than Ignatius Parrish the narrator of Joe Hill’s novel Horns. Ig wakes after a night of sorrowful drinking to find he’s grown horns on top of his head. Worse yet, the horns bring out the worst in everyone Ig encounters. […]

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Short Stories: The Mystery and Men’s Magazines by Richard Laymon

August 17, 2014 by Bob 1 Comment

These stories are a throwback to a simpler time; a time when people drove around in faux wood panel station wagons, wore bell bottoms, and read fiction magazines for entertainment. That’s right. People used to read. Fiction. For fun! In magazines! The first Richard Laymon story I ever encountered was “The Champion” published in an […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Crime Fiction, Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Personal Favorites, Short Story Collection / Single Author, Short Story/Single, Thriller Tagged With: Amish furniture, literary style, magazine reprints, mystery, Richard Laymon, short stories, suspense

11/22/63 by Stephen King

December 31, 2013 by Bob Leave a Comment

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Stephen King likes to travel back in time, and the creamy, apple pie era he enjoys visiting most often is America between1955 and 1965. King himself came of age during those years, and his personal nostalgia transforms into potent prose in works like “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” “The Body”/ Stand by Me, Christine, […]

Filed Under: Bestsellers, Ebooks, Mystery / Suspense Tagged With: 11/22/63, JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen King

The Girl on the Glider by Brian Keene

April 11, 2013 by Bob Leave a Comment

The Girl on the Glider introduces us to one of Brian Keene’s most interesting and complex characters—himself. Keene’s foray into metafiction is a successful one. The Girl on the Glider chronicles Keene’s personal ghost story, as well as his private struggles as a husband, a father, and a cult horror writer with a big fan […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Mystery / Suspense Tagged With: Brian Keene, ghost story, personal

Torn to Pieces by Joseph M. Monks

September 12, 2012 by Bob Leave a Comment

We’ve all read gritty, NYC crime dramas and police procedurals before, but Joseph M. Monks’ Torn to Pieces, hits harder and cuts deeper than most. The chemistry between Detectives Jack Whelan and Burton Carver is similar to Joe R. Lansdale’s brilliant Hap Collins and Leonard Pine novels; I hope Monks has more Whelan/Carver tales to […]

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What Do Monsters Fear? by Matt Hayward

What do monsters fear? Responsibility. Withdrawal symptoms. Owning up to their past mistakes. One of the recovering addicts in Matt Hayward’s creep-fest What Do Monsters Fear? sums up the plot in a few well-chosen words: “Three strung-out fucks are gonna stop an ancient evil god?” Hell, yeah, they are! Because the ancient evil god—a body-snatching baddie […]

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Just in time for Turkey Day comes this cheerful little ditty from November 2005. Happy Thanksgiving! Feeling bloated with turkey and burnt-out on football? Well, sit back, relax, and allow me to acquaint you with the real story of Thanksgiving, the one you probably weren’t taught in grade school. The traditional history of Thanksgiving goes […]

Chills by Mary SanGiovanni

Kathy Ryan has problems. Her brother is a psychopath who tried to kill her when they were young, and now a band of cultists have unleashed an otherworldly invasion on the otherwise quiet town of Colby, Connecticut. Kathy is also emotionally drained from her job battling supernatural monsters. Guarding the inter-dimensional gateway against ancient intruders […]

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