GOD’S DEMON

I was more than pleased, then, to discover GOD’S DEMON by Wayne Barlowe, a panoramic, multi-faceted epic set in Hell.

THE GOD OF THE RAZOR

An essential volume for Joe Lansdale fans, this is a 20th anniversary hardcover reprinting of Lansdale’s splat happy 1987 classic THE NIGHTRUNNERS.

A GLIMPSE OF THE NUMINOUS

I can honestly say that, in a most unusual occurrence, nearly all the tales in A GLIMPSE OF THE NUMINOUS are defiantly unique, if not downright bizarre.

Glass Coffin Girls

I’ll have to say that based on the nine bizarre tales collected in GLASS COFFIN GIRLS, Paul Jessup definitely has the touch.

The Girl Who Passed for Normal

An intriguing exercise in psychological horror that tells a predictable story yet constantly keeps the reader on edge. It contains a hint of the macabre naturalism of Patricia Highsmith mixed with the narrative trickery of Robert Bloch.

THE GHOSTWRITER

Reading this deceptively uneventful mind-boggler, two things immediately became apparent: 1). nobody writes like Zoran Zivkovic, and 2). nobody else could have conceived THE GHOSTWRITER.

THE GHOST PIRATES

THE GHOST PIRATES contains all of Hodgson’s attributes–a compelling ocean-set narrative, a presentation of supernatural phenomena that was many years (if not decades) ahead of its time, and a most unique descriptive power–in its short and concentrated account of the Mortezestus, a ship besieged by spectral “pirates.”

GEEK LOVE

Here’s an object you rarely ever see: a novel with something for everybody. GEEK LOVE is an unabashedly horrific saga with enough grotesquerie to satisfy the most demanding horror buff, yet it also has the charm and erudition required to sate the literary crowd.

GASTON LEROUX’S PHANTOM STORIES

In truth, however, only one of the nine Leroux stories collected here is PHANTOM related: “The Real Opera Ghost,” a nonfiction account of the actual crimes that inspired the novel.