September 1, 2021
Kyle Holl
The Guardian of Magic is the first entry in author Andrew Sharp's Stone Magic Series. I'll admit I had a fair amount of trepidation going into this one for a few reasons: the title is generic but the Amazon title line is absurdly overlong and descriptive, plus the cover is nigh identical to hordes of [...]
August 4, 2021
Kyle Holl
The Package is a psychological thriller from Germany's premier thriller author, Sebastian Fitzek. The book follows Emma, the sole survivor of a serial killer deemed the hairdresser for his fixation on shaving the heads of his victims. There's only one problem-- there's no definitive proof that Emma was assaulted by the killer (and yes, big [...]
July 20, 2021
Kyle Holl
The newest novel from Grady Hendrix is here and it doesn't disappoint! The Final Girl Support Group is equal parts a deconstruction of and a love letter to slasher movies-- there have been a few stabs at the subject matter in recent years, but this is the one that gets it right for me. Hendrix [...]
June 15, 2021
Kyle Holl
Smithy is the debut novel by Inkshares author and paranormal connoisseur Amanda Desiree. The novel is an epistolary record of an animal language acquisition study centered on the titular chimpanzee Smithy (or Webster, if you're feeling formal) and the students who are teaching him American Sign Language. The researchers and their ward have taken up [...]
June 1, 2021
Kyle Holl
It really sucks that zombies have been beaten back into the ground they rose from across the entirety of horror media for the last decade and a half or so. I'm sure there are legions of people who still adore shambling, rotting corpses, but at this point, it's really hard to ignore the oversaturation of [...]
May 22, 2019
Scott Macias
Oscar winning director Guillermo del Toro (THE SHAPE OF WATER, PAN’S LABYRINTH) called Moody’s 2009 novel HATER “a head-spinning thrill ride, a cautionary tale about the most salient emotion of the 21st century”. After tearing the human race in two in HATER and its critically acclaimed sequels DOG BLOOD and THEM OR US, Moody’s paying a return visit to his ultra-violent dystopian world with the [...]
THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER Distorts Settings and Perspectives
THE GUARDIAN OF MAGIC Is a Flawed but Promising Fantasy Debut
THE PACKAGE Is Too Absurd For Its Own Good
THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP Uses Old Tropes to Create New Tricks
SMITHY Is Believable but Lacks Payoff
MOUNTAIN MAN is Mostly Just Zombie Tropes
The Good Guys Are The Bad Guys In Author DAVID MOODY’S Latest Apocalyptic Novel
THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER Distorts Settings and Perspectives
THE GUARDIAN OF MAGIC Is a Flawed but Promising Fantasy Debut
THE PACKAGE Is Too Absurd For Its Own Good
THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP Uses Old Tropes to Create New Tricks
SMITHY Is Believable but Lacks Payoff
MOUNTAIN MAN is Mostly Just Zombie Tropes
The Good Guys Are The Bad Guys In Author DAVID MOODY’S Latest Apocalyptic Novel
THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER Distorts Settings and Perspectives
THE GUARDIAN OF MAGIC Is a Flawed but Promising Fantasy Debut
THE PACKAGE Is Too Absurd For Its Own Good
THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP Uses Old Tropes to Create New Tricks
SMITHY Is Believable but Lacks Payoff
MOUNTAIN MAN is Mostly Just Zombie Tropes
The Good Guys Are The Bad Guys In Author DAVID MOODY’S Latest Apocalyptic Novel