Category Archives: Book Reviews

I’ll be honest. I only picked this one up because of this cover of hard-nippled Army Frankenstein shaking barbed wire like pom poms with a giant stalk of cauliflower in the background. It’s a case of judging a book by … Continue reading →

Yesterday I bought a short story on Smashwords called Dressage: A Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan Presidential Slash-fic by Bailey Marie, author of Daddy’s Little College Girl 3: Step-Daddy Gives a Spanking. It is, as far as I can tell, the first … Continue reading →

I’ve been doing this Orangeberry book blog tour, and for me it’s like taking a walk on the wild side. A lot of self-published authors are doing deep genre stuff that appeals to a very specific market, and that’s not … Continue reading →

I think anyone, upon finding a book with this cover, would feel that it was their duty as an American to drop everything, shove old ladies out of the way, race up to the cash register, and buy this book. … Continue reading →

  The Amityville Horror is generally acknowledged to be a hoax these days, but you have to admire the way the Lutz family, who perpetrated it, have stuck to their guns for all these years. With Amityville: The Final Chapter … Continue reading →

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 →