

Action, Action, and More Action
“DRAGON’S DEN” BOOK 3 of THE METAFRAME WAR by Graeme Rodaughan, 2018 The third book of the Metaframe War saga brings with it a cascade of high tech battle scenes, where we see armored cars fighting tanks, tanks fighting helicopter gunships, and enhanced supermen fighting vampires. Vampires? How’d they get in there? We begin with a flashback showing the origin of series villainess, Chloe Armitage. So far, she’s proved the most interesting character in the series. That often


The Celebration of a Legend
“FRANKENSTEIN THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS” by Christopher Frayling At first, upon receiving this book as a Christmas gift from my good friend Brent Richardson, I thought this would be a pretty coffee table book, but without much depth. Oh, was I wrong. True, this is a lavishly illustrated book; in fact, the last half is all pictures and captions, showing the various adaptations and derivations of “Frankenstein”. I, who have spent a lifetime in the study of horror, still fou