Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … The Listener by Robert McCammon

  • January 25, 2018

  • 2 mins to read

The Listener by Robert McCammon - cover

“Whether the story is set in the world of today or several hundred years ago, McCammon has the ability to set the stage with the reader, and engage them with compelling characters that are impossible to forget.” Two confidence scam artists during the Great Depression decide to hit New Orleans and graduate to kidnapping and …

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Look Out For … Infidel by Pornsak PichetshoteI & Aaron Campbell

  • January 18, 2018

  • 2 mins to read

Infidel by Pichetshote & Campbell - cover

“Former Vertigo editor and bestselling writer Pornsak Pichetshote has teamed with artist Aaron Campbell (The Shadow) to bring us a graphic tale as timely as our newspaper headlines, with a dangerous and sinister supernatural approach.” An American Muslim woman moves into a new building. Along with her neighbors from all cultures and races, she finds …

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Look Out For … Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)

  • January 11, 2018

  • 2 mins to read

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley -cover

“Besides fostering the modern age of science-fiction, Shelley’s Frankenstein is a classic horror story, evoking powerful dynamics as we see creator become monster, and monster become human.” Cadavers fresh from the grave, cobbled together with stitches, a mad doctor creates an abomination in his hidden laboratory. Using science to reanimate lifeless tissue, Victor Frankenstein’s obsessions …

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Book Review: Great British Horror 2, edited by Steve J. Shaw

  • January 10, 2018

  • 8 mins to read

Great British Horror 2, edited by Steve Shaw - cover

“No doubt, in years to come, Great British Horror will become the publication serious and aspiring horror writers beg to be seen in.”   Last year saw the first in a new proposed yearly anthology series, Great British Horror, subtitled 1: Green and Pleasant Land. In it was an impressive array of writers—both relatively new …

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