Bob Pastorella

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Book Review: Splatterpunk: Fighting Back, edited by Jack Bantry and Kit Power

  • December 26, 2017

  • 6 mins to read

Splatterpunk- Fighting Back, edited by Jack Bantry and Kit Power - cover

“These stories are Splatterpunk to the core, each gory and disturbing yet hold a lesson within the pools of blood and piles of guts.” Splatterpunk Fighting Back is a charity anthology of extreme awesomeness. The stories are brutal, and in true splatterpunk form they gruesomely display a middle finger to society while casting the reader …

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Book Review: The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror by William Meikle

  • December 22, 2017

  • 8 mins to read

The Ghost Club by William Meikle - cover

“Take a seat at the dinner table, but be warned … the price for your presence there will haunt you.”   The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror is a very interesting premise for a collection. It’s supposed to be a hidden book of tales written by history’s greatest storytellers who were a …

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Portugal’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: Quinta das Lágrimas

  • December 21, 2017

  • 4 mins to read

Memorial -Quinta Das Lágrimas

Quinta das Lágrimas (the palace of tears) is a huge royal palace, now functioning as a five-star spa hotel, but peel back the skin and you will discover something altogether darker. Located on the edge of the city of Coimbra and likely built sometime in the 13th century, the palace played host to a number …

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Look Out For … The Children of Resurrection Gardens by Stone Wallace

  • December 21, 2017

  • 2 mins to read

The Children of Resurrection Gardens by Stone Wallace - cover

“Coming from a background of loving stories with strong, heroic characters, Wallace taps into real fears everyone can relate to. “ A quiet, scenic California town. The kind of place you’d want to settle in, start a family, and watch your kids grow up. But the kids in Clear Vista never really grow up. Strange …

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