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It's not Halloween without a BAD APPLE

"It gets bigger and better every year...an essential Halloween read."
- Confessions of a Reviewer



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"It gets bigger and better every year...an essential Halloween read."
- Confessions of a Reviewer



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THIS IS HALLOWEEN

"It gets bigger and better every year...an essential Halloween read."
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Savoring the Cheese: An Appreciation of 80's Horror Paperbacks

Hungry for more cool 80's retro? I show some of my favorite covers from one of horror's greatest generations over on WHERE DARKNESS DWELLS:

Savoring the Cheese: An Appreciation of 80's Horror Paperbacks by Evans Light

JUDGING BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS by Robert Essig, with Evans Light.

New article from Splatterpunk Zine: JUDGING BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS by Robert Essig, with Evans Light.

DREAM OF HALLOWEEN: a FREE short story available only for a limited time.

Something sinister creeps through the house, growing stronger as the nights last longer...

"Beautiful, atmospheric, and thoughtfully chilling Halloween tale without the superfluous violence and gore." Jason Parent, author of SEEING EVIL

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Dream of Halloween

Now Available! Bad Apples 3: Seven Slices of Halloween Horror

Available now: Bad Apples 3: Seven Slices of Halloween Horror



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New Review: Taboogasm, by Gregor Xane

Taboogasm by Gregor Xane

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


(FULL DISCLOSURE: Gregor Xane has been a fellow contributor on several anthologies, and has become a friend over the last couple of years. That being said, our friendship was born primarily out of his stellar writing abilities, as his debut short story "It Came From Hell and Smashed the Angels" and novella Six Dead Spots absolutely blew me away and led me to seek him out. This review is my honest opinion, as free from personal bias as possible.)

I've just finished reading TABOOGASM, Gregor Xane's first full-length work since the mind-melting spectacle that was The Hanover Block. I finished reading it yesterday, slept on it, yet still find myself at a loss for words.

TABOOGASM may in fact be a mystical porthole, a voyeuristic excursion into Gregor Xane's dreams.

Much like Xane's The Hanover Block, this book defies description. TABOOGASM is its own thing, a whole new flavor of inXanity™.

If I wanted to orient a mainstream reader, I'd say it lies somewhere in the general vicinity of Douglas Adams and David Wong (John Dies at the End), and it does - but in the same sort of way that Pluto lies in the general vicinity of earth.

The book is unrelentingly imaginative and by turns funny, bizarre, vulgar, and surprisingly action-packed. There's a light feel to the whole proceedings, playfulness laced with a sense of unease generated by a story line that veers so far off the path well-traveled you'll find yourself holding on for dear life as things pick up speed.

One of the hallmarks of a good book is a feeling of disappointment when the final sentence arrives, a longing for the story to continue. I'm eager to follow this adventure along to the next uncharted destination, and I hope this book connects with an audience so that can happen someday. The ending leaves things perfectly poised for a sequel.

If you want to be amused and disturbed in the best possible ways, give this a spin. You'd have to be incapable of joy to not have a good time with this book.

4.5 STARS - It left me wanting more!



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New Review: 5 Stars to YELLOW MOON, by David Searls

Yellow Moon by David Searls

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Wow.
Yes, that's pretty generic I know, but it's the only word that comes to mind when reflecting back on this book, which I finished reading only moments ago.
What an incredible novel, one of those rare finds that you hope for when selecting an 80s/90s horror paperback, but seldom actually get: a polished jewel hidden beneath a lurid cover.
Bursting at the seams with vigor, wit and creativity, David Searls' YELLOW MOON delivers the goods and then some. The prose moves with such sleek efficiency I actually had to read faster to keep up with the cadence. Once I found the rhythm, I was firmly hooked and pulled along for the rest of the ride.
Clocking in a a sleek 250 pages, this novel is all meat and no fat, just the way I like 'em. Searls gives a virtuoso display of how to juggle a large cast of characters and multiple narrative threads, not once did I feel a sense of confusion about who was who and what was what; everything simply flowed.
Like a lucid dream freshly transcribed upon waking, YELLOW MOON should hold immediate appeal to fans of Joe R. Lansdale for sure. For some reason, for me this book called to mind a bit King's DESPERATION and Joe Hill's N0S4A2, even though, impressively, it was published prior to both. Toss in a pinch of King's IT, and you're in the ballpark. This novel truly stands on its own beside any of these, including Lansdale's NIGHTRUNNERS.
Chock full of memorable imagery and out-of-the-park turns of the phrase, Searls has scored himself a new lifetime fan with this one. Had this been published a decade earlier, it would undoubtedly possess renown as a horror classic, which I fully contend it is.

***** Five BIG FAT Stars to add to the sky of the YELLOW MOON.



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LOVE LIES, by Evans Light - New Release from Corpus Press!

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