Category: Reviews

Book Review: Ornithology by Nicholas Royle

August 11, 2017
8 mins to read

“These stories are compelling, artful, and hypnotic; they are stories which tread the line between the literary and genre with absolute ease, mixing in the surreal, the ambiguous.” Nicholas Royle is a name which has long been associated with genre writing, having been published in various horror anthologies such as The End of the …

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Book review: Pacific Rising by John W. Dennehy

August 8, 2017
3 mins to read

“It’s one part Kaiju, one part military thriller, equaling an action-packed fight for survival.” Something stirs after its slumber is broken by a hurricane. Tokyo won’t be safe once it emerges from the turbulent seas. The beast of legends attacks with full force, ravaging everything in its path. A joint effort by the U.S. …

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Book Review: Song of the Death God by William Holloway

August 7, 2017
4 mins to read

“Readers will be in for a sophisticated horror story, one that will stay with them for quite some time.” Carsten Ernst has witnessed too much depravity in his short time for any person to bear, especially one of his status. The trials of his childhood turned him into a solemn, calculating young man who …

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Book Review: Earth, Air, Fire & Water by Brian Lumley

August 1, 2017
5 mins to read

British horror writer Brian Lumley is a living legend, a man who has been active in the genre for over forty years–ever since the publication of his first collection, The Caller of the Black, by Arkham House in 1971. Perhaps most famous for his best-selling series of Necroscope novels (the first was published in 1986), …