Here we are once again with yet another installment of Monastery. I’ve said it before but with every part, the emotional stakes are rising in a...
“Your line was always ‘give me a reason.’ Always. And forget the fact that it was and continues to be the cheesiest TV-pilot-gravel-voiced-detective-mystery catchphrase ever written....
A Pilgrimage of Swords (2019) is the first novel of a grimdark fantasy series (The Seven Swords) authored by Anthony Ryan.
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen is a queer summer thriller for the ages. Released by the New York publishing company Zando in June 2022,...
Falling Angel is a 1978 supernatural, hardboiled detective novel written by William Hjortsberg.
In 2020, I read the apocalyptic horror novel The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier, published by Pantheon Books in 2006. The story follows...
“Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.”
1978’s Dawn of the Dead is one of the most influential classics in the horror genre, and particularly in the zombie genre. At first blush, the...
“I don’t think there’s anything here that can hurt you.” Down to its bare knickers, The Shining is a haunted house story Stephen King’s Overlook Hotel...
The Beginning of a Classic, Ain’t It? Let’s face it, Stephen King is one of the most recognizable authors in our lifetime. He produced such hits...
There I was, surfing the paperback shelves of my former ‘go-to’ book store, the Atwater Library Book Store. I was on the phone with an associate...