TALES FROM THE HINTERLAND Melissa Albert Flatiron Books (January 12, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen What author Melissa Albert has accomplished with her delightful collection of stories entitled TALES FROM THE HINTERLAND is something that I hope is one of the most talked...
Shelter for the Damned Mike Thorn JournalStone (February 26, 2021) Reviewed by Ray Palen Mike Thorn clearly knows his horror. For his Master’s thesis in English Literature, he analyzed the role of epistemophobia in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness. Clever...
SEEDS OF THE DEAD Andy Kumpon & Gary Malick Killerbeam (July 7, 2020) Reviewed by Ray Palen This eco-horror tale was also featured with the sub-title: Genetically Modified Zombies! A tale of a deadly viral outbreak in our bioengineered food. Well, they’re...
Nights of the Living Dead Edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero St. Martin’s Griffin August 13, 2017 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon Filmmaker George A. Romero passed away on July 16th, 2017. To many people he was just another horror movie director, but his...
Celebrity Chef Zombie Apocalypse Jack Strange Kensington Gore Publishing May 4, 2016 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon Robert Turner is given the thankless and impossible task of making the reruns of an old outdated cooking show interesting again. Luckily he has an uncle...
Zombies from the Pulps! – Twenty Classic Stories of the Walking Dead Edited by Jeffrey Shanks Skelos Press 2014 Reviewed by David Goudsward Folklorist Elsie Parsons notes that as late as 1928 the term zombie was virtually unknown outside Haiti. That changed in...
