LITERAL REMAINS

A child, Arkady, is found dead by the railroad tracks.  It is officially found to be an accident.  From the details of the body, the incident is being called a murder by the family.  The father’s supervisor from work visits the home.  The supervisor informs Fyodor, Arkady’s dad, for his own safety, for his remaining family’s safety, stop [...]

On a raid, Baltimore detective Joe Ledger, assigned to a counter-terrorism force, kills Javad Mustapha on a Monday.  On Wednesday, as part of his recruitment to the super-secret Department of Military Science (DMS), Ledger kills Mustapha again.  A terrorist group has a new biological weapon that not only kills, but it also reanimates the corpses.  The terrorists [...]

Written as a series of interviews, World War Z by Max Brooks, dubbed An Oral History of the Zombie War, tells the story of humanity’s fight against the living dead. There has been a lot of hype around this book, and critics have loved it. Even horror fans have been singing its praises from some [...]

The International Mining Corporation (IMC) have made a mysterious discovery in the jungles of the Congo that could world altering, and shattering, consequences. Satellite imagery has detected the presence of a circle buried deep beneath the jungle floor. Twenty thousand feet deep to be precise.
Oh, brother, here we go again. At least that’s what I [...]

I’m having a hard time writing this review.  I just finished reading this book, and I can’t quite find the right words to describe it.  It’s that good.
 
Drood is a living, breathing, twisting novel.  The best thing is that Drood goes beyond categorization, beyond a single genre.  It is enlightening, entertaining, thrilling, and beguiling.  Epic.  [...]

I like horror.  Horror books, horror movies, horror sounds, Marilyn Manson, Barry Manilow and the Carpenters.  I like splatter punk, psychological horror, ghosts, monsters, vampires, and werewolves, OH MY!  (Sorry, I couldn’t resist; rainy days and Mondays always bring me down.)  I like fast paced, balls to the wall, four on the floor action, and I [...]

Seven high school friends, all considered outcasts in one way or another, calling themselves The Underground, gather for a last senior year send-off. They decide to party at the foreboding plantation mansion of the one rich outcast. Ready to kick it with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, a fight breaks out among them, and [...]

Jack “Grim Reaper” Chambers lost his platoon in the Hurtgen Forest during WW II. What really happened there is a mystery that has haunted Jack for over sixty years, and as he comes to the end of his life, he wants the truth to be known.
Incapacitated by bad health, Jack entrusts his grandson, Sean, with [...]

 
In Brian Keene’s The Rising, and its sequel City of the Dead, the dead are coming back to life.  But these are not ordinary, brain lunching, flesh munching, zombies.  An interdimensional divide has opened involving experiments with particle accelerators and black holes, allowing demons to invade our reality.  These demons escape the distant depths and slip into the bodies [...]

Blood Red is Ravenous with vampires and none of the bite. Kealan Patrick Burke described Blood Red as “Brutal and scary”. I read all three hundred and ninety-six pages of this damn novel, and I’m still looking for the brutal and scary parts. I would have quit reading it at three or four different points, [...]

A man running from his past kidnaps a woman and they stop in a small town. Not by accident. DUM-DUM DUM-DUM. Bloodstone was a finalist for a Bram Stoker award. Apparently, the people at the Horror Writers Association have lowered their standards in recent years. How come nobody told me?
Somewhere, underneath all the banality of [...]

The debut novel by Joe McKinney has zombies tearing up Texas. Five devastating hurricanes have whipped the Texas Gulf Coast in three weeks. There are thousands dead or dying, and from this disaster a virus emerges that reanimates the dead. Of course, they are hungry for human flesh. Police officer Eddie Hudson soon learns that [...]

According to the author bio, Garton’s novel Live Girls is considered a classic in the vampire genre. I’ve never read it.   Ravenous is my first taste of Ray Garton’s work, and I bought it because it was a werewolf story. I love a good werewolf tale.  And even if I didn’t like the lycanthropes, or [...]

Timmy Graco and his friends hope to spend the summer of 1984 as they usually occupy their time: in their secret dugout in the cemetery. After a personal tragedy strikes Timmy’s family, he really wants the down time with his friends, time just being a kid. Unfortunately, someone, or something has been [...]

Sarah Langan’s debut novel centers around the small town of Bedford, Maine. Many of its citizens consider Bedford to be cursed. The Clott Paper Mill, long the beating, polluted, heart of the town has closed, forcing the majority of the citizens into unemployment and even harder means of survival. The mill closes [...]