Bob Pastorella

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AHS: Roanoke Chapter 3: Play by Play, Recap, and WTF

  • October 4, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

AHS- Roanoke-Chapter 3 - Kathy Bates

Evan Peters! Evan Peters! That’s my hopeful chant heading into Episode 3. I know there is a good chance you’ve heard the rumors that there will be a “major twist” mid-season, and as unhinged but linear as the storyline has gone so far, that is a worrying thought. Approximately, oh, eighty plot threads have been …

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Book Review: The Awakening by Brett McBean

  • October 3, 2016

  • 4 mins to read

The Awakening - Brett McBean - cover

“Able to hold its own with other great coming-of-age horror novels.” The Awakening by Brett McBean is one of those books that gives the truth to the old cliché about never judging a book by its cover. It is reminiscent of the covers that proliferated during the horror boom of the 1980s. However, this novel …

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Interview: Josh Malerman, Part II – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bird Box, and I Can Taste the Blood

  • September 29, 2016

  • 15 mins to read

Josh Malerman

This is part two of Shane Douglas Keene’s interview with Josh Malerman. Malerman is the author of the breakout debut novel, Bird Box, and has stories published in the recent anthologies Lost Signals from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, and in Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories from Crystal Lake Publishing. He’s also got a story in the …

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Book Review: Eternal Frankenstein, edited by Ross E. Lockhart

  • September 28, 2016

  • 6 mins to read

Eternal Frankenstein - cover

“These stories and characters are sewn together to create one hell of an exquisite monster.” Ross E. Lockhart and Word Horde have a reputation for putting out some wonderful anthologies, among those are The Book of Cthulhu and Giallo Fantastique. Eternal Frankenstein shines alongside them with an intensely dark and beautifully macabre mix of tales. …

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