Archive for the 'Horror' Category

Book Review: “Pilate: A Brutal Bible Tale” by Steven Rage

By Mary Menzel: This brilliant alteration of biblical accounts into a modernized tale of drugs, death and deception is not for the easily offended or faint of heart. With graphic scenes of violence, sex and torture Steven Rage has given us a view of Christ’s final days had he lived in our modern world. His [...]

Book Review: “The Cage” by Jason Brannon

By Mary Menzel: Jason Brannon has taken bold new steps on the imagination highway. All of us have probably seen programs that talk about or show indecipherable pictures of creatures only known in a hypothetical or superstitious context. Take the Chupacabra for example. Now, imagine yourself trapped with him and many other “monsters” we thought [...]

Book Review: “Dead City” by Joe McKinney

By Mary Menzel: Mass destruction from consecutive hurricanes causing endless piles of decaying corpses. Viruses and bacteria mutating and causing infections not previously seen and no treatable. This is a very relevant book for our times. Imagine the mass chaos, unprecedented situations, panic and unavoidable death of loved ones that took place during the Black [...]

Book Review: “Dark Hollow” by Brian Keene

By Mary Menzel: What can be more frightening than “something” in the dark of a forest? Brian Keene has taken this primal fear of ours and put a new twist on it. Making the evil force irresistible and the very woods come alive in ways never seen before. He has used the small town setting [...]