Genre: Audio Book Publisher: Robyl Press Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Let’s talk about audio books. Almost every single book on tape (or CD) that I have ever listened to has been ultimately disappointing. Stephen King ‘s Gunslinger saga, Robert …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Medusa Press Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Okay, let’s just cut to the chase: The Damp Chamber and Other Bad Places by Frank Chigas is one of the best collections of horror stories I’ve ever read …
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: iUniverse Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? David Scott Webster’s The Grand Adventure, the first book in his Naxos Island Mages saga, is a young adult fantasy that follows two young brothers on a—you guessed it!–grand adventure. …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: iUniverse Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? The Piaculum by Eric Gray can be best described as religious science fiction. Set on a futuristic Earth where a strictly regimented, agriculturally based community of Christians (called the Mone) …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Gallant Books Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Veronica Cherry, a nurse turned full-time writer, has written a novel reminiscent of early Robin Cook works like Coma, Brain and Godplayer. A Call to Mind can be described …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Fire Mountain Press Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: No Stars! Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? From the moment I picked up A Ghost Among Us, I was overcome with a sick sense of literary foreboding. It was almost as if a …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Medium Rare Books Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Memoria, Adam Pepper’s debut novel, is an addictive and disturbing story that is equal parts Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Thea Alexander’s 2150 A.D. with a generous sprinkling of Daniel …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: iUniverse Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? In the prepress marketing material I received with my copy of KB Shaw’s From the Shadows, anonymous reviewers described the young adult novel as a “computer lover’s version of Harry …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: House of Stratus Published: 1913 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Although Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his Sherlock Holmes mysteries, his personal favorite literary creation was Professor George Challenger, a scientist and explorer who, in …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: House of Stratus Published: 1964 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? While many science fiction novels written in the 1960s are still highly entertaining, there are few that are just as timely and profoundly moving today as they were …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Eggplant Productions Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Writing good erotica is a delicate matter. Too much sensuality may repulse readers; not enough may bore them to death. All too often erotica is predictable and formulaic, becoming …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Dark House Books Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Meteth is undead, a vampire, immortal. One of six of his kind, he has walked among mankind since the beginning of time, killing tens, hundreds, thousands indiscriminately. But …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Whole Universe Press Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Before popping the e-book anthology Tales from the Whole Universe into my computer, my expectations were high. As a dedicated fan and avid supporter of small presses …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: House of Stratus Published: 1908 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? If John Silence, Physician Extraordinary, the second House of Stratus collection of Algernon Blackwood stories that I’ve read thus far, is any indication of the remaining books in …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: House of Stratus Published: 1927 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? House of Stratus, an England based publishing company specializing in reissuing classic literary works, has unearthed a huge collection of long out-of-print stories by Algernon Blackwood, the prolific …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Merilyn F. George’s Curse of the First Gods, the first book in her Chronicles of the Last Elder Lord saga, is the story of Sha’azharet’th, a young Dragon Lord …
