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Category: Horror

Dead Silence by Craig Brockman

victor March 1, 2025 December 23, 2024Horror Craig Brockman, John Austin 0
Book cover for "Dead Silence" by Craig A. Brockman. Features a silhouette of a coyote against a dark forest background. The text reads, "They Steal Your Thoughts, Your Body, and Leave You in the Afterlife.

Review by John Austin About a hundred pages into Craig Brockman’s recent thriller Dead Silence, the reader and the complicated “hero” of the story meet the book’s most splendidly rendered character: Ma’ii, the trickster coyote spirit who eventually resolves the plot, albeit in confounding fashion, and not necessarily to everyone’s…

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Redead by Tim Gould

victor March 15, 2023 February 1, 2023Horror Nikki MItchell, Tim Gould, zombies 0

Review by Nikki Mitchell Redead by Tim Gould is a humorous and witty take on an anti-hero’s experience in a zombie apocalypse. The main characters are from lower Michigan and make their way into the U.P. over the course of the book. Instead of chapters, the book is told in…

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The Biting Cold by Matthew Hellman

victor January 1, 2023 January 2, 2023Horror Matthew Hellman 0
The biting cold by matthew hellman.

Review by Victor R. Volkman What is it about wintertime that lends itself so supplely to the horror genre? Beginning with Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” in 1908, the dangerous beauty of winter was driven home.  Now throw in a dash of the supernatural, as in John W. Campbell’s…

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