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Tattered Tomes: And the Circus Comes to Town – Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes

June 24, 2015
8 mins to read

My relationship with Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes began with another book. Already familiar with Bradbury’s work after reading The Martian Chronicles and a few of his many collections of short stories, it was reading Stephen King’s Danse Macabre that led me back to the writer that started it all for me. The …

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Look Out For… Devil’s Breath by Greg F. Gifune and Sisters Of The Revolution

June 23, 2015
4 mins to read

Look Out For… Devil’s Breath by Greg F. Gifune “Combines a fast-paced, high-stakes plot with a graceful and even darkly poetic style.” In a dying coastal town near Cape Cod, Stanley Falk lives a quiet and unassuming life as a dishwasher. A shell of what and who he once was, Stanley is a man with …

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The Cutting Room: Turbo Kid

June 18, 2015
2 mins to read

In a post-apocalyptic parallel future of 1997, an orphaned teenager called The Kid scavenges the Wasteland searching for relics from a better time (the 80s). During one of his expeditions he meets Apple, a mysterious girl with a rather large secret. As their relationship deepens, they accidentally run afoul of Zeus, the self-proclaimed leader of …

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Injured Eyeballs: I Was Satan’s Slave to the Music

June 17, 2015
11 mins to read

Horror fiction and heavy metal go together like a fist fuck and five star lube. Many horror fans have a weakness for doom laden power chords and a dark driving beat, and who can blame them given the things they read and watch. Everyone knows that the Dark Lord’s had all the heaviest tunes since …