Tales From the Deep South
“SPOOK LIGHTS” by Eden Royce, 2015 Many novels, especially horror novels, I find, are over-written and padded. That's one reason I...
Siege of the Shadows
“THE WALLS OF WOODMYST” by Robert E. Krieg, 2016 After the frightful discovery of a mutilated corpse, the village of Woodmyst comes under...
More Horrors Out of Africa
“THE SLEEPLESS” by Nuzo Onoh, 2016 Having read Onoh's earlier UNHALLOWED GRAVES, I was anxious for more of her tales of African horror. ...
There's Feudin' in Them Thar Hills
“NO FOOL'S GOLD” by Jack Petersen, 2015 Nominally a sequel to Petersen's “Gold Camp”, this is the tale of an old time gold miner, up in...
Lovers on the Run
“GOLD CAMP by Jack Petersen, 2013 Although set in the present-day, this book is a Western. It starts out in Nevada, where the locals...
Crime Spree in Berkeley
“LAST STRAW” by David Rheem Jarrett Tom Pickering is a tough, middle-aged man with a philandering wife and a broken tooth. He uses a gun...
Mayhem Under the Moon
“FRENZY” by Pike Stephenson, 2016 There's a monster killing child murderers, gun-toting thugs, and rapists. Kinda makes us root for the...
A Battle for the Soul
“THE DEVIL AND THE UNICORN” by Haydn Jones, 2015 I must say, not knowing what the story was about, and after reading ten pages of murder...
Those Damned Vampires
In October Weeks' novel, “The Damned,” we have the traditional plot of a vampire hunter on the trail of a vampire. Actually, our...
Talk About Vampires...
“THE BLAIRFIELD CALLER” by Melvin Rivers, 2015 Stan Jones, a talk show host of a paranormal radio show, has a dark secret. And someone...
