Bob Pastorella

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Book Review: The Final Reconciliation by Todd Keisling

  • February 28, 2017

  • 5 mins to read

The Final Reconciliation - cover

“The Final Reconciliation plays out like a nightmarish Behind the Music VH1 episode, its climax unforgettable and epic.” An aging rocker reveals the dark circumstances surrounding his band and their final gig. The Yellow Kings are a promising metal band. They are killing it on the road and leaving many fans in their wake.  When …

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The Misunderstood Perfection of Shelley Duvall in Kubrick’s The Shining

  • February 27, 2017

  • 6 mins to read

The Shining -The Torrence Family - All together

Let’s be clear from the start: Stephen King’s book The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining are two completely different animals. All further understanding and appreciation of either incarnation spawns from that fact. Yes, the source material for the film is the book, but it’s just that: source material that Kubrick used to mold …

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Book Review: The Time Eater by Aaron J. French

  • February 24, 2017

  • 3 mins to read

The Time Eater Aaron J French - cover

“Aaron J. French gives us a psychological war between man and the darkness behind the curtain of reality” Aaron J. French has used his fiction to deal with the occult, the weird, and the metaphysical. His first novel, The Time Eater, takes these concepts to the extreme and gives the readers a tale that expands …

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Book Review: Chupacabra Vengeance by David Bowles

  • February 23, 2017

  • 13 mins to read

Chupacabra Vengeance - cover

“Bowles has delivered a work of genius, producing a collection of entertaining speculative fiction that is also literary gold.” Award-winning Mexican-American author David Bowles is a man of many talents. As well as a teacher and a lifelong academic with a particular passion for learning about languages and cultures, he is also a published poet …

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