Genre: Horror Publisher: Authorlink Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? Now before you get the wrong idea, this is not a book detailing what a certain pop superstar gets up to at night-time. No, as the front cover so emphatically proclaims, this …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? Welcome to Peter Straub’s first collection of stories since his acclaimed Houses Without Doors, released no doubt to capitalize on the success of his recent novel Mr X. Straub is …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Random House Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes a book to prove you completely wrong. In fact, not only have you not seen it all, you’ve only just begun …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Wildside Press Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? It seems incredible, I know, but this is the very first multi-collection of stories from the pen of editor and dark fantasist Steve Savile, even though he has been writing …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Avalon Publishing Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid I always used to look forward to the comic book annuals that came out about this time each year …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? Now I’m not one for dipping into books in the middle, or reading a couple of pages of a short story then moving on. In the words of the immortal …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Penguin Published: 1959 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? Regardless of the quality of Jan (Speed) De Bont’s big-budget interpretation — a film I have not yet seen and probably never will — the hype surrounding The Haunting last year did …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Pantheon Books Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? This is not for you. Quite a bold statement for the beginning of a book by a virtually unknown author. But he’s right, this might not be for you. If you’re …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Cemetery Dance Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? I felt very sad as I read this book, not because it’s a weepie (as if!), but because it’s one of the last books we’ll ever see from the late Richard …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Delirium Books Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Jack Crane Have you read this book? You’re not apt to find a more honest, or honestly terrifying, writer than Greg F. Gifune. His Bram Stoker Award nominated collection of short horror stories, Heretics, resonates with bona …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? Journeys to/escapes from/travels in Hell have provided a fertile field for many speculative fiction authors. Some easily recognized names in the biz (Like Niven and Anthony) have penned their …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? Another six months go by, and another hardback book appears on the shelves from Richard Laymon. Honestly, you can set your clocks by this writer, can’t you. Arguably America’s most …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Eggplant Productions Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Among the guidelines of some horror fiction editors you will find a plea that goes something like, “For God’s sake, don’t send us stories set in clubs or where the …
Genre: Horror/Vampires Publisher: iPub iWrite Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? The Way of the Wolf is an eBook, available in electronic format or as a POD (print on demand, for those of you not familiar with the lingo). What this …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? ‘Once…upon…a…death…’ For almost 30 years now James Herbert has been trying to scare us senseless. Ever since the publication of The Rats in the early 70s, he’s been at the …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Zumaya Publications Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Jack Crane Have you read this book? Christopher Stires’ new (and first) novel, The Inheritance offers another riff on the old Pandora’s box routine without much innovation regarding theme, characterization, or plot development. It’s a simple and very …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Serpent’s Tail Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? ‘Ian McEwan used to mine a similar seam. Fowler does it better.’ – Arena ‘Ghoulishly irresistible.’ – The Times ‘The stories are just the right shade of black to have considerable …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Best Destiny Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Reader Rating Remember those comic books you grew up on? Remember the mushy ones with titles that always had to include the word “romance” or “heartbreak” or “true”? It may well be that only us females, and …
Hannibal, by Thomas Harris Genre: Horror Publisher: Delacorte Press Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Vincent W. Sakowski Reader Rating Hannibal begins roughly seven years after the ending of The Silence of the Lambs. It picks up with Clarice Starling (the heroine of Silence) as a Special Agent in the …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Pocket Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Vincent W. Sakowski Reader Rating So, you’re wondering if this King is worth shelling the big bone out for, especially after so many duds he’s been putting his name on in recent years. (Wizard and Glass being an exception, of …
