Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre (Dream Weaver #1) edited by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson Crystal Lake Publishing. 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1640074682 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition With a few exceptions, books on writing usually bring on the snoozes, but Where Nightmares Come From is constructed in a manner that sidesteps the […]
Sourcebooks Fire, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1402293184 Available: Hardcover (preorder) I received The Ghost Prison as an ARC in egalley format through NetGalley.com. The Ghost Prison was initially a short story, but has been expanded into an illustrated novella here. Author Joseph Delaney makes every word count. The story is narrated by Billy, a fifteen year old orphan who has […]
The Trials of Apollo, Book Three: The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan Disney-Hyperion, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1484746431 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audibook, audio CD The Trials of Apollo is probably my favorite of all Rick Riordan’s series, and the third series starring Greek gods and demigods. To be fair, I have read them with my kids […]
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 […]
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: Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Leigh
September 25, 2018Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1442440753 Available: New and Kindle Burn for Burn is about three girls who decide to get even with the people who wronged them, and who discover that revenge is not as clear cut as it seems. Two of the girls, Lillia and Kat, […]