If you’re looking to choose a bad-ass genre pseudonym, you could do a lot worse than ‘Nick Cutter’. Just ask author Craig Davidson (Rust and Bone;...
Jim Jarmusch‘sOnly Lovers Left Alive––a sultry vampire movie in the tradition of The Hunger––is front-loaded with a killer cast. Tom Hiddleston (Thor) is Adam, a centuries-old...
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was featured as part of the 2014 Sundance Film’s Festival’s NEXT slate, a category which claims to celebrate “an...
Remember those days as a teenager when you’d leave an action film so exhilarated, you’d start exchanging air jabs with your best friend in the theater...
Nazi zombies versus Russian zombies. I mean, with Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, either you’re on board or you aren’t, you know? Director Tommy Wirkola...
What begins as a techno-thriller about the pursuit of an elusive computer hacker takes a surprising turn into hardcore sci-fi territory in co-writer/director William Eubank’s The...
Adopting the deliberate, melancholy pace that is a cornerstone of the proud Sundance tradition, Jamie Marks Is Dead wants desperately to be River’s Edge. So bad....
Cooties, a horror/comedy from Saw creator Leigh Whannell, is scatter-shot with enough top-notch moments to almost make you forget that the movie as a whole isn’t...
Proudly bearing its various horror influences like merit badges on a sash, The Babadook is the feature debut of writer/director Jennifer Kent, a native Australian and...
Writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard, the duo behind 2011‘s You’re Next, have followed up their home invasion cult classic with a solid, satisfying B-movie...
With the increasing popularity of e-readers and lit websites, is has become harder and harder for good horror fiction to go unrecognized. Nevertheless, I’m grateful to...
Dean Koontz’s newest novel, Innocence (December 10; Bantam), is virtually guaranteed to be a runaway holiday bestseller. With a primo release date and the tried and...
The Summer Job (January 7, 2014; Samhain), the latest novel from emerging author Adam Cesare, is the textbook definition of a nail-biter. Gone is the whimsical...
There’s a fair amount of shivery anticipation awaiting the release of Dan Simmons’ The Abominable (October 22; Little, Brown), particularly from the cult following that surrounds...
Even as Amazon’s focus turns to its bevy of beefed-up e-readers, its fledgling publishing imprints are quietly releasing some of the better genre books around. In...
How do you top your scariest novel? If you’re Stephen King, penning a sequel to The Shining 35 years later, you don’t even try. Doctor Sleep...
Early in Geoffrey Girard’s debut novel, Cain’s Blood (September 3; Touchstone), a handful of teen boys manage to escape from a government facility. But Al, Henry,...
Last year’s novel Pines was good enough to backbone a TV mini-series by M. Night Shyamalan, set to premiere on Fox next year. Author Blake Crouch’s...
Salt Lake City’s first annual Comic Con drew a record number of eager cosplayers this week, with apparent thousands being turned away at the door on...
After the success of his last anthology, there’s considerable anticipation for Michael Marshall Smith’s newest book of stories, Everything You Need (August 23;Earthling Publications). But considering...
Every autumn the “Best of” books begin to run and spawn, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy Horror 2013 (Prime Books; August 20) is the first...
Six best-selling novels in six years is impressive by any standard. But every entry in Chelsea Cain’s Sheridan/Lowell series is uniformly excellent, and Let Me Go...
For most readers, the big draw of Let the Old Dreams Die (Thomas Dunne Books; October 1) will be the promise of a sequel story to...
Although he generally works with big time publishers, author Stephen King released his newest novel Joyland (June 4) through boutique publisher Hard Case Crime, and reading...
You must be logged in to post a comment.