Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey

  • June 6, 2019

  • 3 mins to read

The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey

“With The Grand Dark, Kadrey uses the gritty setting he knows so well to build a strange new world with characters that are larger than life, facing dangers that sit at the edge of our imagination.” Now that the Great War has ended, Lower Proszawa celebrates peace as intensely as the distress of the war. …

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In Memoriam: Dennis Etchison 1943 – 2019

  • June 4, 2019

  • 5 mins to read

Dennis Etchison - World Horror Convention 2008

Dennis Etchison (March 30, 1943 – May 28, 2019) On Tuesday May 28th, the American horror writer and editor Dennis Etchison passed away. He might not have gained the mainstream recognition of some of his contemporaries, but to his fellow writers (and to fans) Etchison was a titan of the field. A “writer’s writer”, if …

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Look Out For …Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson

  • May 30, 2019

  • 2 mins to read

Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson - cover

“This latest collection by Evenson will bend your mind in unanticipated directions and into the dark and shadowy areas you were warned about.” Doubt. Delusions. Paranoia. Human perception twisted to the breaking point. The unconscious is capable of powerful self-deception, accounting for our own compulsions, even if we’re unaware of it ourselves. Why we’re excited …

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Look Out For … A Penny for Your Thoughts by Robert Ford and Matt Hayward

  • May 23, 2019

  • 3 mins to read

A Penny For Your Thoughts

“A Penny for Your Thoughts is Ford and Hayward’s first collaboration and sounds like a book you’re not going to want to miss.”  Right out of prison, Joe Openshaw settles back at home with his father. He’s trying to pick up the pieces of his life, letting go of his old habits, like the habits …

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