Category Archives: Book Reviews

Some books do the hard work for you. This is one of them. I picked up Joseph Green’s The Mind Behind the Eye because the back cover promised a war between two genetically-engineered super-intelligent men, one in the USA, and … Continue reading →

“Nancy Drew versus Satan” only with more scary oral sex, The Closed Circle is a crusty, musty paperback cash-in on the 70′s craze for Satanism and the occult. Written by Barney Parrish, the pseudonym of George Wolk (although why he … Continue reading →

The most expensive book I own isn’t old, it isn’t a hardback, and it isn’t even very good. It’s: The fiction debut of William C. Heine, editor of Ontario’s London Free Press, it came out in 1974 from Paperjacks “The … Continue reading →

This month, calls are starting to go out for people to submit to “Best of 2011″ anthologies. “Best Horror of 2011,” “Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2011″ and so on. But to my mind there’s only one winner for … Continue reading →

  Newt Gingrich was right. The Soviet Union’s takeover of America wasn’t achieved through military force, it happened when the Soviets detonated four nuclear devices high in the ionosphere which generated an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that wiped out all electronics … Continue reading →

What is Absolved? Posted on his blog in serial form, Absolved is Mike Vanderboegh’s militia novel about a bunch of good old boys in Alabama taking on the dastardly ATF. Who is Mike Vanderboeg? He’s an Alabama resident who got … Continue reading →

John Christopher (born Samuel Youd) is an author best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories for young adults like these: But today we’ll be talking about a totally nutzoid book he wrote for not-so-young adults like this: That … Continue reading →

Remember TAXI DRIVER? The 1976 movie directed by the poet of New York, Martin Scorsese, starring Robert DeNiro as the gun-loving loner, Travis Bickle? It won a bunch of awards and is generally considered a modern-day classic. Less remembered is … Continue reading →

In 1979, overheated German director, Werner Herzog, decided to remake 1922′s NOSFERATU, collaborating (for the second time) with possibly insane actor Klaus Kinski and 11,000 rats. Realizing that a movie this over-the-top required a novelization full of heaving bosoms, fevered … Continue reading →

It’s absolutely astounding that I was never flagged as a school shooter when I was a teenager. I didn’t carry guns around but I had two danger signs flashing over my head like big neon signs: I owned a black … Continue reading →