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Book Review: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
I’ve seen the movies and heard the songs, but now it’s time to go O. G. Opera Ghost, that is. Leroux sets the novel on the framework of investigating the legend of the ghost of the Paris Opera House and its relation to the disappearance of the young Viscount de Chagny and the promising young…
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Buddy Read & Rant #7 with Jonathan Pongratz: Until Summer Comes Around by Glenn Rolfe
Hello Blogging World! Iseult: Hello all, Iseult here. I love to read and write horror, fantasy and science fiction, and rant about it afterwards. There’s no one better to rant with about books (or anything at all, to be honest), than my bestie, Jonny. He’s also a wonderful writer, so BUY HIS BOOKS! Jonny: Aw…
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Book Review: Neolithica by Dan Soule
Like Crichton or Preston and Child at their best, but with even more horror and heart, you won’t want to miss this stunning novel from Dan Soule. Strange things start happening in Glasgow after a surprisingly perfect Neolithic bog body is found by a road crew. As murders increase, and a procession of odd phenomena…
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Book Review: White Noise by Rhonda Parrish
A collection of zombie poems – incredible – and it’s even better than it sounds! This slim volume comprises twenty poems, all themed around zombies. The poems are diverse in their scope. Some are like a complete zombie story in a few words. Poems such as Slippery When Wet, Maybe Not, The Hardest Promise I…
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Book Tour: The Drop by Jacy Morris
About the book How many hearts can a song touch? How many ears can it reach? How many people can it kill? When popular boy band Whoa-Town releases their latest album, no one thinks anything of it. They certainly don’t think that the world will be changed forever. After an apocalyptic disease sweeps the world,…
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Book Review: The Ash by Dan Soule
Non stop action from the first to the last page, The Ash is a locomotive of an alien invasion story. Policeman Jim Castle wants to get home to his son when the aliens arrive in cataclysmic explosions, but one obstacle after another prevents him from obtaining his goal. With the whole world out to get…
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Buddy Read & Rant #6 with Jonathan Pongratz: Camp Carnage by Joshua Winning and Elliot Cross
Hello Blogging World! Iseult: Hello campers, it is I, Iseult, mistress of dark fiction and things that go bump in the night. Jonny : And this is your camp-hating nerd friend Jonny! I have a healthy dislike of camping, well that and creepy basements, which you can find in my Reaper novel here. Let the campy slashy…
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Book Review: Urban Legends by Yawatta Hosby
You know you’ve taken your novel research too far when you start murdering people. Students at Independence University start dying in the exact order of Urban Legends covered in Professor Stevens’ class, but who could be the killer? This is a fun horror novel for fans of slasher fiction. If you like the teen horror…
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Book Review: Waste Not by Rhonda Parrish
Zombie stories don’t get much better than this, with Rhonda Parrish’s three funny takes on the genre. Waste Not is the most familiar zombie story of the book, with a family trying to survive on their homestead. I loved the characters, and the ending was good, creepy fun. Feeders is a view of the zombie…
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Book Review: Dead Voices by Katharine Arden
Imagine a trip to the Overlook hotel, for a middle grade audience, and then turn the dial up to 11. You get Dead Voices. Our three young hero’s from Small Spaces, Ollie, Coco and Brian, are back. Two months after their terrifying Halloween school trip, Ollie’s dad wins a ski vacation, so off they go…
