HORRORWEEN
Unlike the others, HORRORWEEN is composed of three standalone stories, all previously published in slightly different versions.
Unlike the others, HORRORWEEN is composed of three standalone stories, all previously published in slightly different versions.
Joe Hill’s second novel is far better overall than its predecessor A HEART-SHAPED BOX, fulfilling many things the previous book promised but didn’t deliver.
Reading this thoroughly bizarre, spiritually infused graphic novel from Ukrainian writer/illustrator Igor Baranko, I couldn’t help but wonder if Alejandro Jodorowsky had a hand in its creation.
HERO AND THE TERROR inspired little attention of any sort; there’s a reason for the neglect, of course, as truth be told this simply isn’t a very good book.
As he often did, Brown adds many eccentric and unexpected elements, including a warped sense of humor and a pointed political angle, as well as quite a few experimental touches that place HERE COMES A CANDLE in a category of its own.
Sometimes, to get to the really good stuff the horror fiction buff must look outside the horror shelves for mislabeled genre fiction. One example would be this “surreal fairy tale,” an impressive 100 page exercise in contained apprehension.
In horror fiction, as in most any other sort, true originality is an increasingly rare commodity. But it does exist, as proven by Connie Wilson’s HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION, an anthology that is genuinely, blazingly original.
With a stable of first-rate authors–Neil Gaiman, Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden, Sarah Langan and Gary Braunbeck–you can count on a good read at the very least.
Here England’s Christopher Fowler, who of late has focused largely on contemporary whodunits, returns to the genre that made his name.
A short (98 page) tale of a voracious sex murderess, the novel is related in a jaunty and refined tone that dramatically offsets its depraved content