Carlton Mellick III ‘Apesh*t’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Carlton Mellick III is among the most well-known authors writing within the bizarro movement of speculative fiction. Bizarro is not horror per Read more [...]
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Brian Keene ‘Take the Long Way Home’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Take the Long Way Home is a post-apocalyptic horror novella by Brian Keene. God has called the faithful to heaven. The rapture has occurred. At Read more [...]
Brian Keene ‘Scratch’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Scratch is a brief pulp horror novella by Brian Keene. The story centers on a giant snake known as “Old Scratch,” who haunts Susqehanna Read more [...]
Carlton Mellick III ‘Clusterf*ck’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour With Apeshit, Carlton Mellick III took the horror premise of teenagers in the woods and integrated it fully within the bizzaro genre of Read more [...]
Brian Keene ‘Jack’s Magic Beans’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Brian Keene is among the most well-known and respected horror authors writing today. He has been compared with legends, such as Stephen King Read more [...]
Brian Keene ‘The Girl on the Glider’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour The Girl on the Glider is a ghost story by Brian Keene. It is a work of metafiction, with the author serving as protagonist. Metafiction, in a Read more [...]
Brian Keene ‘Alone’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Alone is a brief novella by Brian Keene. The story centers upon Dan Miller, a middle aged man, who wakes up to find himself alone. His Read more [...]
Edward Lee ‘Trolley No. 1852’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Trolley No. 1852, by Edward Lee, was written in 2009 during his Lovecraft or cosmic horror phase. Other novels within this vein include: Going Read more [...]
Joe McKinney ‘Dead City’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour In the last decade, zombie literature has become mainstream. The success of Max Brooks’s World War Z and Brian Keene’s The Rising has led Read more [...]
Dmitry Glukhovsky ‘Metro 2034’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour The Metro Series is set following a nuclear war in the early 21st century. The remnants of humanity now live underground in the Moscow subway Read more [...]
Fear the Future: 10 Great Post-Apocalyptic Horror Novels
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Post-apocalyptic stories are not just for science fiction fans. Most views of an earth destroyed by virulent plagues or nuclear war are not Read more [...]
Edward Lee ‘Header 2’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Header 2, by Edward Lee, is a full length novel that serves as a sequel/off-shoot to two infamous novellas: Header and The Pig. These novellas, Read more [...]
Michael Bray ‘Meat’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Roughly three years into his publishing career, Michael Bray is still a relative new comer to horror. Hailing from Leeds England, many know him Read more [...]
Jonathan Maberry ‘Patient Zero’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Jonathan Maberry burst onto the horror scene in 2006 with Ghost Road Blues. Since then, he has written a number of novels directed at both Read more [...]
Edward Lee and Wrath James White ‘Teratologist’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Teratology is the study of the abnormalities of physiological development, i.e. birth defects and other malformations which develop with age as Read more [...]
Edward Lee ‘Going Monstering’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Going Monstering, by Edward Lee, was written in 2010 during his Lovecraft or cosmic horror phase. Other novels within this vein include Trolley Read more [...]
Edward Lee ‘Mangled Meat’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Edward Lee is writer who needs no introduction. Known for novels, such as The Bighead and Header, he is among the most extreme and hardcore Read more [...]
Edward Lee ‘Header’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Edward Lee is known as the premiere author of hardcore and extreme horror literature. It is books -like Header– which have to come to Read more [...]
Harlan Ellison ‘Vic and Blood’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Harlan Ellison is among the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Don’t believe it? Ask him. He will tell you as much. Ego aside, there Read more [...]
Monica J. O’Rourke and Wrath James White ‘Poisoning Eros’ Review
Written by: Matthew J. Barbour Monica J. O’Rourke and Wrath James White are two of the biggest names in modern extreme horror. O’Rourke and White are known for telling Read more [...]
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