Bob Pastorella

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Book Review: Life Is What Happens Between Advertisements by Brian Auspice

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“If you like your novellas to lead you off the beaten track into an adventure in narrative style, while still delivering an entertaining and thought-provoking story, you can’t go wrong with this book.”   Brian Auspice’s first book, Deep Blue (Eraserhead Press, 2014), was released as part of the New Bizarro Author Series and, given …

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Look Out For … The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese

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“The Spirit Photographer explores a con-artist facing the supernatural, which opens the door for dark character development against the backdrop of the emotional lure of the chance for others to see their lost loved ones again.”    Edward Moody is a con-man. Setting up shop in 1870’s Boston, he uses the new technology of photography to …

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Book Review: The Detained by Kristopher Triana

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“An engaging and entertaining read that will keep you gripped from beginning to end.” His earlier work has drawn praise from sites like Publisher’s Weekly and Rue Morgue, while Jack Ketchum referred to his forthcoming novel Full Brutal (Grindhouse Press, 2018) as “compulsive reading”. It seems that Kristopher Triana has burst onto the horror scene …

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Look Out For … The Immaculate Void by Brian Hodge

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“With The Immaculate Void, Hodge is summoning something dark and twisted from deep within the cosmos, uncaring and relentless, and we can’t wait to read it.” Daphne is the one who got away. When she was six, a serial killer tried to end her life, but she managed to escape. Scarred for life, one could …

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