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Reviewing End of the Road by Brian Keene

End Of The Road

Brian Keene

Cemetery Dance

Collected for the first time are Brian Keene’s weekly columns, originally written for Cemetery Dance during his 2016 Farewell (Not Really) book Tour to promote Pressure and The Complex.

After Gabino Iglesias uses the book’s intro to convince us why Keene isn’t an asshole, we’re treated to the passenger side of a writer’s journey as he hits…

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#End of the Road #John Urbancik

Reviewing: The Fallen Boys by Aaron Dries

The Fallen Boys

Aaron Dries

Black T-Shirts Books

At the outset, The Fallen Boys centers around Marshal and Claire Deakens and their young boy, Noah. Life is decent and simple enough: Marshal’s a videographer for themed parties while Claire grinds out her days in a cubicle with aspirations of being a writer. Their son, Noah is a quiet, at times brooding, preteen trying to…

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#horror book review #novel

Reviewing: On the Road With Brian Keene, by John Urbancik

On The Road With Brian Keene

By John Urbanick

Cemetery Dance Publications

John claims his writing leans toward wonder more so than dread, and this compact companion – a bonus for those who order End of the Road by Brian Keene – provides an accurate example of John’s signature style. John’s minimalistic approach to story telling can scratch the surface of anyone’s psyche yet still manage…

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#End of the Road #John Urbancik #travel book

Reviewing 100 Word Horror: Book 4, Edited By Kevin J. Kennedy

100 Word Horrors: Book 4

Edited by Kevin J. Kennedy

KJK Publishing

The fourth and final volume of the series (according to the editor’s notes) is proof positive you don’t have to be long in the tooth in order to make a lasting mark. The collection delivers a cornucopia of thrills and chills from various authors who’ll have you driven into a dog-eared frenzy as you’ll no doubt want to…

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Reviewing The Hidden Truth, A novel by Armand Rosamilia and Jay Wilburn

THE HIDDEN TRUTH

By Armand Rosamillia and Jay Wilburn

Crossroad Press & Macabre Ink Digital

After getting canned by the tabloid rag they spent twenty years of their lives working for, Cull and Jackson are desperate to save their hides, get their jobs back and become the lucrative schmucks they always dreamed of being. When fate and no shortage of bad luck puts Steve – an Uber driving,…

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#horro book #horror book review #The Hidden truth

Reviewing The Faces, A Novel By Douglas Clegg

The Faces

By Douglas Clegg

Alkemara Press

Clegg’s latest novella goes beyond expectations and offers a creeping tale of the highest caliber told the way only Clegg’s distinctive voice can. The real strength here isn’t what’s being described, as provocative as that is, but rather what’s been left to simmer beneath the surface of this everyday world we’ve been cast into, a world much like…

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#horror

Reviewing RING RING Staring Malcolm Goodwin, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Lou Ferrigno

RING RING

2019

Director: ADAM MARINO

Writer: NAMAN BARSOOM

88 MINUTES

Reviewed by JP Andrika

If you’ve ever worked with the public, you know the horror of it. Here, a young group of telemarketers (Josh Zuckerman, Alex Shaffer, Andrew Caldweli) find out they’re being fired by their supervisor (television legend, Lou Ferrigno). Plucky Amber (Kirby Bliss Blanton, THE GREEN…

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Corona Con – Watch It All For Free!

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Free Drabble Story

Last Place On Earth

By Rick Hispon

Sat upon our mountaintop, we surveyed the bleak vista of charred bodies upon a newly scorched Earth. The flames could not touch us here; We had chosen our last place on Earth well. As the fires raged below and the burnt scent of death filled our lungs, we could only watch as more debris from the asteroids broke through the atmosphere and added to the…

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#Free drabble

The Bram Stokers Awards Check it all out here:

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18 Eerie Tales by Steve Vernon for only 99 Cents!

From Steve’s social media page:

Today, for the low, low, low price of 99 cents I offer you eighteen eerie tales of fantasy, horror, science fiction and all around strangeness that will take you to the edge of the map and then nudge you just a little bit further.

“If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists…

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A FREE Short Story: 'Till Death Do We Meet

A FREE Short Story: ‘Till Death Do We Meet

Here’s a story I wrote some time ago for a contest Dark Recesses Press magazine was running at the time. The theme was deje’ vu and involved stories that we’ve all heard before, often from classic monster tales and the like, but told in our own voices. I decided to take my crack at a story which had been on my mind for a while. It started with a scene involving a certain black clad individual…

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#ghost story

Free flash fiction: Roots

As an extension of my previous post to offer a few (maybe four?) free stories of mine to help provide at least a few moments of distraction, here’s one called Roots.

I wrote this one after being inspired by one of John Urbanicik’s inkstain stories from his book InkStained: On Creativity, Writing, and Art which I first review for Rue Morgue Magazine and also posted earlier on this blog HERE.…

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#free story

Bob Ford offers his kindle edition of Samson and Denial for FREE!

Samson Gallows is an average guy. He loves his wife, loses more than he wins, and lives his days in the gray zone between right and wrong.

After a junkie walks into his pawn shop with a mummified head, Samson is thrown into a downward spiral through the streets of Philadelphia, getting more blood on his hands wherever he goes.

In 24 hours, Samson learns how deep betrayal can run, how…

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#Bob Ford

Free drabble story

With everything that’s going on in the world, it can be tough as hell to focus on much else other than what’s directly in front of us, and what may be looking over head and around us with no foreseeable end in sight.

In an effort to offer something of a distraction, even for just a few minutes, I’ve decided to post a few short stories of my own. I’ve noticed other authors offering their…

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#horror

Reviewing Grind Your Bones To Dust by Nicholas Day

Grind Your Bones To Dust

By Nicholas Day

Excession Press

Dissected into four distinct, yet connected parts, Day’s debut novel flows at a relentless pace. Part one depicts a man named Louis Loving fleeing across the Oregon desert, desperate to escape a haunted past and the grisly experience of having just watched his friends ripped apart by a pack of flesh-eating donkeys. Stumbling onto a…

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#Nick Day

Enjoy a free e-book, Midnight Rituals

From the virtual pages of Brian Keen’s:

MIDNIGHT RITUALS is an anthology featuring (Brian Keene), Mary SanGiovanni, Robert Swartwood, John Boden, Kelli Owen, Stephen Kozeniewski, Wesley Southard, and Robert Ford.

It was originally published as an extremely limited edition print chapbook. We are now offering it as a free e-book to help distract everyone from the real-world horrors taking…

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