Robert Dunbar ‘The Streets’ Review
Written by: James Keen “Dread had become an old companion.” – Robert Dunbar. ‘The Streets.’ ‘The Streets’ arrived on shelves towards the end Read more [...]
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Cover Reveal: Chad Lutzke’s ‘Night As a Catalyst’!
Chad Lutzke’s new collection, Night As a Catalyst will be available on May 1st in both ebook and paperback form via Amazon exclusively. And given the talent Chad has Read more [...]
Ronald Malfi ‘December Park’ Review
Written by: James Keen “You think a person could actually die from fear?”- Ronald Malfi. ‘December Park.’ In ‘December Park’ the “sleepy bayside Read more [...]
Andrew Pyper ‘The Demonologist’ Review
Written by: James Keen “Satan is an early advocate for the dissolution of Patriarchy…The Devil has father issues.” – Andrew Pyper. The Demonologist. Read more [...]
Pictorial: 7 Awesome Horror Novels That Might Make For Awesome Movies
Written by: James Keen I’m pretty certain most of you out there have a list of books that you’d dearly love to see filmed. This is currently my own. It’s in Read more [...]
Robert McCammon ‘I Travel By Night’ Review
Written by: James Keen “It was the stuff of nightmares, this death in life.” – ‘I Travel By Night’. Robert McCammon. Back in the late 1980’s Read more [...]
Conrad Williams ‘Decay Inevitable’ Review
Written by: James Keen “…they stood on a desert of faces that moved ceaselessly, minutely, like the incremental journey of a dune.” – Decay Inevitable. Conrad Read more [...]
Michael Farris Smith ‘Rivers’ Review
Written by: James Keen “All I want is an end to this, some kind of promise that we won’t keep spinning in the storms and the filth and the chaos.” – Read more [...]
Stephen Volk ‘Whitstable’ Review
Written by: James Keen “I know evil when I see it” – ‘Whitstable.’ An author who chooses to use as his chief protagonist a figure with a rich public Read more [...]
Christopher Golden ‘Snowblind’ Review
Written by: James Keen “Everyone knows how this is gonna end…” – ‘Snowblind’. Golden gets things off to an atmospheric start and in the process Read more [...]
Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ – An Exercise in Existential Terror
Written by: James Keen “How about a little something to lower your spirits?” – Lambert. “Ten Little Indians” is how director Ridley Scott described the plot of Read more [...]
David Bernstein ‘The Tree Man’ Review
Written by: James Keen Opening with an arresting, dreadful sequence involving a gruesomely depicted sacrifice of a woman to a supernaturally animated flesh-rending Read more [...]
James Keen’s Top 10 Novels of 2013
Written by: James Keen These are not books that were released this year; these are books that this reviewer read this year, some of which may be regarded by many as being Read more [...]
Dan Chaon ‘Stay Awake’ Review
Written by: James Keen “I guess the big problem is that I’m not always sure about whether anything is accurate.” – ‘I Wake Up’. Dan Chaon. Read more [...]
Conrad Williams ‘Head Injuries’ Review
Written by: James Keen “And could we really be sure that this wasn’t all one huge shared nightmare, a folie à trois , that we had infected each other with.” Read more [...]
Jack Ketchum ‘Off Season’ Review
Written by: James Keen “They watched the owl return to its tree with the frog and begin to tear it apart.” Though originally published in 1981, it’s startling that Read more [...]
T.P. Louise and Ashley Wood ‘Lore’ Review
Written by: James Keen “We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.” – T.P. Louise. Broadly speaking this is a fascinating premise from the husband/wife Read more [...]
Adam Nevill ‘The Ritual’ Review
Written by: James Keen “The last thing we want is to be in here again at night.” – The Ritual. Four old friends all nearing middle age decide to get together for a Read more [...]
Dan Simmons ‘The Abominable’ Review
Written by: James Keen “We have absolutely no concept of what lies ahead for us.” -The Abominable. Dan Simmons returns to frozen climes again after his novel, ‘The Read more [...]
Peter Straub ‘Mr. X’ Review
Written by: James Keen “Theatrically, Mr X pressed the bell. When the door opened, he rammed a knife into the belly of the man before him and walked him Read more [...]
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