Tamara Jones ‘Spore’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel of Top of the Heap Reviews I picked up SPORE pre-release at Horror Hound Cincinnati where I got the pleasure of meeting Tamara Jones and having her Read more [...]
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Tim Miller ‘The Country Club’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel (of Top of the Heap Reviews) The Country Club is an old place, though no one knows quite how old. It houses the rich, the powerful, and the political, Read more [...]
Tim Curran ‘Blackout’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel (of Top of the Heap Reviews) Tim Curran is one of those guys that people talk about when you speak of ultra violent and gory horror. Books like Read more [...]
Jonathan Janz ‘The Clearing of Travis Coble’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel The Clearing of Travis Coble is an exercise in excellence when it comes to short story telling. Jonathan Janz manages yet again, to create Read more [...]
Gord Rollo ‘Peeler’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when delving into Gord Rollo’s Peeler. It was my first foray into his work. I’ve heard of him, Read more [...]
Anthology ‘DarkFuse #1’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel Short story collections are usually hit or miss, and this is no exception. I would say that you’ve got 4 pretty damn good tales, and 2 that can be Read more [...]
Jonathan Janz ‘Dust Devils’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel From the Back: Beware when the vampires come to town. When traveling actors recruited his wife for a plum role, Cody Wilson had no idea they would Read more [...]
Eric Wilder ‘Primal Creatures’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel Today the supernatural genre seem a bit over-saturated. With sparking vampires fighting werewolves for love, and the absolute disgusting humanization Read more [...]
Movie Talk: The 7 Scariest TV Shows in History!
Written by: Joe Hempel Television has been an important medium for stories and ideas for many years. Due to government restrictions though, a lot of horror gets watered Read more [...]
Derek Odom ‘Gamble’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel From the cover: A young chess hustler goes on the supernatural adventure of a lifetime when he meets Mortimer Blackwell, a strange elderly man, who Read more [...]
Robert Kirkland and Jay Bonansinga ‘The Walking Dead: Fall of the Governor Part One’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel From the Back: In The Fall of the Governor – Part One, the Governor’s descent into madness finally erupts in a tour de force of action and Read more [...]
Calvin Dean ‘The Epitaph of Jonas Barloff’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel From the Back: Popular high school senior, Daniel Townsend, is dead – victim of a suspicious car crash. Classmates Marc and Angela begin to Read more [...]
Prepared for the Return of AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’? Joe Hempel Breaks Down ‘The Road to Woodbury’!
Written by: Joe Hempel Written by Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga, The Walking Dead novels are set before the times of the comic books and tell the story of the Governor Read more [...]
Blake Crouch ‘Wayward’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel If Blake Crouch doesn’t become a household name after this series of books, I’m knocking on every door in America and shoving this series in their Read more [...]
Kealan Patrick Burke ‘The Grief Frequency’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel of Top of the Heap Reviews I admit that I’m only familiar with the fantastic Turtle Boy series by Kealan Patrick Burke. I enjoyed those quite a Read more [...]
Carolyn McCray ‘Fresh Meat’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel of Top of the Heap Reviews There is a collection of books out there by one Carolyn McCray. It’s titled “Don’t Read After Read more [...]
Catching Up: Joe Hempel Walks Us Through Episodes Five and Six of Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’
Under the Dome Episode 5 & 6 Executive Producer Stephen King Air 7/22/2013-7/29/2013 Written by: Joe Hempel (of Top of the Heap Reviews) I apologize for not getting last Read more [...]
Jonathan Janz ‘Savage Species Part Five: The Old One’ Review
Written by: Joe Hempel (of www.topoftheheapreviews.com) The final installation of Savage Species has now been released, and what a ride it is! The violence is stepped up, the Read more [...]
Joe Hempel Walks Us Through Episode Four of Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’
Under the Dome Episode 4 Executive Producer Stephen King Air 7/15/2013 Written by: Joe Hempel (of Top of the Heap Reviews) This week the town of Chesters Mill had to deal Read more [...]
Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, Jeff Strand, F. Paul Wilson ‘Draculas’ Review
Written by Joe Hempel (of Top of the Heap Reviews) I always get excited when I talk about this book. It’s one of the most entertaining books I’ve read. Nothing Read more [...]
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