Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Harvey Kurtzman, completed by Josh O’Neill and Shannon Wheeler, illustrated by Gideon Kendal comiXology Originals, 2017 ASIN: B01LZAATMD Available: Kindle, comiXology Marley’s Ghost is the posthumous completion of Harvey Kurtzman’s (1924-1993) adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol. Kurztman’s concept for this book […]
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Book Review: The Epitaph Of Jonas Barloff by Calvin Dean
October 16, 2018Createspace, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1482032314 Available: Paperback, Kindle ebook Sycamore Grove High school athlete Daniel Townsend helps his basketball team win the state championship. He is going to go Ole Miss on an athletic scholarship. Then Daniel and his family find out his father, Donald, has inoperable lung cancer. This upsets Daniel, as the Townsend family […]
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places stories by Mike Mignola; “Into the Silent Sea” story by Mike Mignola and Gary Gianni; “The Right Hand of Doom”, “Box Full of Evil”, “Conqueror Worm”; “The Third Wish”, and “The Island” art by Mike Mignola; “Being Human” art by Richard Corben Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-50670-688-7 Available: Paperback, Kindle […]
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola Dark Horse, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1-50670-666-5 Available: Kindle edition, paperback Hellboy’s complete story is presented in chronological order in Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction. This is a massive tome, at over 300 pages, written and drawn by Mignola. We read from Hellboy’s summoning during his […]
Book Review: Unraveling Isobel by Eileen Cook
October 9, 2018Simon Pulse, 2012 (trade paperback); 2013 (hardcover) ISBN: 9781442413276 (hardcover) 9781442413283 (trade paperback) Available: New: e-book; new and used: hardcover, trade paperback Isobel is miserable. Her mom just married a man she’s only known for a few months, and they’ve moved to a haunted mansion on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. Isobel has […]
Book Review: The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief by Charles Day
October 2, 2018Noble Romance Publishing LLC, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1605923994 Available: New Although the publisher appears by name to be a romance book publishing company, this book is far from it. Part mystery and part horror, The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief keeps the reader guessing and on the edge of her seat throughout the entire book. Is there really […]
Book Review: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
September 18, 2018Tor Teen, 2011 ISBN: 0765328658 Available: New Theseus Cassio (Cas) Lowood is a ghost hunter, a trade he inherited when his father was brutally killed by a ghost. Armed with his father’s powerful athame (a knife that is able to “kill” ghosts), Cas and his mother travel around the country on the hunt for evil spirits. […]
Book Review: Katana by Cole Gibsen
September 11, 2018Flux, 2012 ISBN: 0738730408 Available: Print and multiformat digital Billed as “Kill Bill meets Buffy”, Katana is the story of an ordinary skater teen with a gay best friend, who, after being attacked in a mall parking lot one night, discovers she’s the reincarnation of a 500 year old samurai (yes, there are famous […]
Book Review: Dead Spell by Belinda Frisch
September 4, 2018CreateSpace, April 28, 2011 ISBN: 978-1461006633 Available: Digital and Kindle There’s no doubt about it: Ms. Frisch has talent. The reader can recognize it right from the beginning of Dead Spell, her debut novel about a violent, avenging spirit that torments two teenage girls. But, like a lot of independent authors who self-publish, the novel […]
Book Review: From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender
August 28, 2018Hyperion, 2011 ISBN: 9781423134718 Available: New hard back and multi-format digital If anyone was likely to fall in with a cult of beauty-enhancing Donna Reeds it wouldn’t be Alexis. Even less so if it was led by an evil spirit, since Alexis has just started recovering from the trauma of last year, when her […]