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Book Review: Siphon by A.A. Medina

Siphon by A. A. Medina

Hindered Souls Press, 2018

ISBN-13: 978-06980217

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition

 

Siphon by A. A. Medina describes an unhappy nebbish who becomes possessed, and, eventually, controlled, by an urge to drink blood and act out his sexual fantasies.  Dr. Gary Phillips is a hematopathologist, orphaned as a child and raised by an abusive grandfather.  He is tortured by unfulfilled sexual fantasies and dotes on a sexy phlebotomist whom he follows on Facebook.

Dr. Phillips’ compulsion to drink blood (hematophagia or Renfield’s syndrome) arises from his own psychosis, not from vampirism or a supernatural entity.  When he “blanks out”, his “God” takes more and more control of his thoughts and actions.  His mania increases from sneaking sips of lab blood, to drinking menstrual blood, to siphoning blood from living humans.

Siphon is a horror story, but not a fantasy.  Although the plot is shocking, it is not altogether unbelievable.  I wish the author had delved more into the origin and power of Dr. Phillips’ psychosis.  His duties in the laboratory are those of a hospital lab technologist, rather than that of a hematopathologist.  The book contains profanity and intense sexual scenes.

 

Contains: profanity, graphic sex, gore

Reviewed by Robert D. Yee

Posted on January 15, 2018 by , Reply

Help A Reader Out: A Possessed Girl In A Convent Turns Thanksgiving Dinner Into Feces

Well, this is different.

Delores writes:

 

I am looking for a horror book that was published between 1980-81. It was a paranormal horror book.

It was about a young woman who breaks her engagement and joined a convent under the influence of a demon. When she get to the convent she scare the (sisters) nuns with paranormal activities like levitation, changing thanksgiving dinner into feces, and having sex with imps. In the end, she climbs on the top of a building and pours gas over herself and light a match. She dies but her skin did not burn.

A priest tried to save her but failed. He believed the foul spirit was in her hidden since she was a child of five.

I would really like to find this book and buy it. Hope you can help.

 

Can anyone help Delores find this book?

Posted on January 15, 2018 by , Reply

Book Review: The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne

The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017

ISBN-13: 978-0735213005

Available: Hardcover, paperback, audiobook, audio CD, Kindle edition

 

This breakout novel has been hailed by some critics as THE must-have thriller of 2017, as well as the year’s perfect “Daughter” book.

Karen Dionne, author of high concept science thrillers Freezing Point and Boiling Point, decided to change tracks in favor of something much more organic and disturbing in The Marsh King’s Daughter. The book succeeds on all levels because of what it sets out to do– simply tell a story without all the bells and whistles. Dionne’s writing has a songstress’ voice and rhythm, yet doesn’t overwhelm with the love of language. It embraces the feel of the setting and story, pulling the reader deep into the marsh’s realm, only relenting when the final page is turned.

The story is deceptively simple. Helena loves her easygoing life. Great husband, great kids, great job all without much stress or fuss. In the unique world of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, life is decidedly different. The land feels cut off from the country readers know as America, but also feels like home. Then she hears the news of an escaped prisoner, and realizes that the life she has built for herself and her family is about to shatter. The escapee is her father, a man she knows she must track and send back to prison, to have any chance to hold onto the life she knows.

Helena’s father  abducted her mother when she was a teenager. He raped her and kept her hostage in the marshes for many years. Until Helena was a teenager herself, she knew nothing of life outside of their cabin in the middle of the marsh. Her father taught her the ways of a hunter, tracker, and survivalist, and even though she escaped him years ago, she hasn’t forgotten them. Helena knows that the police will never find him– but she can, and will. She plans to find him before the life she has made is overtaken by her nightmare past.

The novel blazes past, as good thrillers do, but there is something special about The Marsh King’s Daughter: the story has a magic that must be experienced. Easily the hottest thriller of the year, this book is recommended for anyone who loves great storytelling and a voice that will suck them in. Fans of David Morrell’s early work, John Connelly, and Elizabeth Massie will want to be sure to check this out.

 

Reviewed by Dave Simms

Posted on January 7, 2018 by , Reply
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