Headstone City13 reviews Tom Piccirilli Spectra, 2006 Piccirilli Creates Lightning In A Bottle + Liked it more than I thought I would + Dane-gerous Ride! + Perfect no matter what genre you classify it in + The Ghost Father             Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)22 reviews Modern Library, 1994 Essential -- the roots of modern short horror fiction + Excellent collection of classic tales + A deadly little jewel + Excellent Introduction to Supernatural Stories + This is a keeper!             The Rising207 reviews Brian Keene Leisure Books, 2004 A Macabre Gem of Zombified, Gore-Filled Madness. + The Rising by Brian Keene + The Best Zombie Novel Ever! This book deserves all praise granted to it. Brian Keene writes like a true madman. He writes clean, structured sentences and manages to make a 321 page book seem like an epic six-hundred-pager. He accomplishes this by being able to introduce a lot of characters throughout the novel, and ...             Divinations of the Deep2 reviews Matt Cardin Ash Tree Pr, 2002 An original voice + Exploring the Dark Side Having read many of Matt Cardin's essays on the stories of Thomas Ligotti, I was not quite sure what to expect when I purchased this book. Despite the sometimes condescending comparisons made between LIgotti's work and Cardin's, I would say that Cardin is more in the vein of William Peter Blatty ...             Sixty Selected Poems1 review Joseph Payne Brennan New Establishment Pr, 1985 chilling and macabre--great in an embittered introduction, brennan attacks the publishers and editors who rejected his poetry out of hand for years. brennan was writing in the 60's and 70's, when traditional verse was mostly shoved aside for more new, 'avant garde' forms of poetry. but once one begins to actually read the ...             Boneland1 review Jeffrey Thomas Bloodletting Press, 2004 Alternate American history complete with bugs and Guests Once again I find myself highly recommending a book that is a limited edition, but if you liked George R.R. Martin's 'Sandkings' for the bugs, you will love Thomas's 'Boneland'. For me, I do not regret one penny spent on this superb tale of morbid history, alien invasion, bug-like mechanisms, and ...             The Great Shadow: And Other Stories (Empire of the Senses Series)3 reviews Mario De Sa-Carneiro Dedalus, Ltd, 1997 The Great Shadow - A Fiction Lived, a Life Ficcioned + Genuinely CRAZY + it's dark in here The Great Shadow is one of the novels of the only Sa-Carneiro's book dedication to Fiction. But is is central in the identification of the key-structure that allows that his works talk about his life, and vice-versa. No one, has constructed as Sá-Carneiro did, a romantical project that would make ...             A Dirge for the Temporal3 reviews Darren Speegle Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2004 Subtle, haunting, and prolific + Ray Bradbury Fans will love it + A classic of modern horror... What is a Dirge? It is a lingering sense of supernatural, the mystical, and mixed with a bevy of fear and excitement, seen in only half exposure. A Dirge for the Temporal encompasses these meanings and treats us to a blend of subtle temptation and brutal beauty. Thirty-four stories take us ...             Siren Promised1 review Jeremy Robert Johnson; Alan M. Clark Bloodletting Press, 2005 Read it immediately I have just one word for you - DAMN! Beautiful in its honesty, the plot is raw and creative. Without sermon or judgment, the story reveals a naked, ugly picture of drug abuse and exile. Although there is a very intricate supernatural element to it, it is purely secondary. What you will ...             The Shadow at The Bottom of The World9 reviews Thomas Ligotti Cold Spring Press, 2005 The Master of Disaster Strikes Again + Note to Ligotti Fans "The Shadow At the Bottom of the World", while only containing one unread story for Ligotti fans, will be entirely new for others ignorant of the Ligottian cosmos. I think that is the point--and even brand new fans get the additional treat of discovering which stories Ligotti himself holds in high ...             November Mourns22 reviews Tom Piccirilli Spectra, 2005 Piccirilli Brings It! + Depressing and Haunting Book From A Master Storyteller. + Unique Southern Gothic Dark Fantasy This is a delicious taste of Piccirilli-moonshine. He, like so few can, has the ability to take the average Joe and make one hell of a story out of it. Simply one of the best novels out there. He fills the pages with literature that no mere mortal can create--he is a major talent, a storytelling ...             The Pugilist at Rest: Stories34 reviews Thom Jones Back Bay Books, 1994 Darn fine + jones is more than flavor of month -- he's the real thing + Must read Vietnam literature + altered consciousness             My Work Is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror4 reviews Thomas Ligotti Mythos Books, 2002 Strange and unsettling + Ligotti's work not done + Title story is awe-inspiring. + one of the best horror novels in years             The Conqueror Worms48 reviews Brian Keene Leisure Books, 2006 A differnt take on the end of us... + Keene does it again + GOOD PULPY FUN! I have been a fan of Keene's work for a while and really liked his zombie books. As an avid fan of end of the world style fiction I was still a bit put off by the cover and promise of killer worms. Nevertheless, I was stuck in a small town during the holidays with little reading options, and the ...             The Night Class45 reviews Tom Piccirilli Leisure Books, 2002 In a Class of His Own! Tim Piccirilli is in a class of his own--an elite class at that. He combines, whole heartedly, a sensibility like no other that accesses the deepest core of your mind and soul. Whether he makes you laugh or cry or afraid--or all of the above, he is simply lingering on the top of the food chain ...             The Nightmare Factory22 reviews Thomas Ligotti Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996 Gnostic Nihilism + A great collection of creepy weird tales! + Waking up in a nightmare + authentic horror, not for the timid King fan             Noctuary9 reviews Thomas Ligotti Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1995 I bought this book and now I'm gutted ... + Thomas Ligotti's Noctuary will quench your thirst + Noctuary + "A man awakens in the darkness..." + a perverse celebration of imaginative nihilism             Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood25 reviews Algernon Blackwood Dover Publications, 1973 Pulls You Right In... + Slow and spooky + Some excellent tales, but also marred by some quite mediocre ones + Best Book of Modern Ghost Stories from the 20th century. + This book will mess with you             A Choir of Ill Children32 reviews Tom Piccirilli Spectra, 2004 Fine Southern Gothic Horror + Dirty Gothic from the Dirty South + For anyone who ever believed THEIR family was messed up Piccirilli weaves a good old fashioned ghost story in the Southern Gothic tradition, feeding us the plot in rich images with a tight skillful style that evokes the still fear of blood dripping into a dark cauldron, slowly drawing our eyes upward to the horrors that have been hanging there all ...             Angel Dust Apocalypse35 reviews Jeremy Robert Johnson Eraserhead Press, 2005 This collection defines unbridled insanity + The best things come in small packages. + Strange, Different, Weird and Horrific. + the things we do for love + The literary offerings of Bizarro writing