Category: book reviews

• April 26, 2019

  A Closer Look into the World of Jackson R. Thomas

  

    Last summer, I kicked off the next phase of my publishing company, ALIEN AGENDA PUBLISHING.  We decided to go with a summer package featuring re-releases of novels by Mick Ridgewell (The Nightcrawler) and David Bernstein (Skinner), and introduced Jackson R. Thomas.  The “Summer of Horror” kicked off with The Beast of Brenton Woods, a […]
• November 25, 2018

  End of the Year TBR List…

  Currently reading PRACTITIONERS (Bloodshot Books) from Patrick Lacey and Matt Hayward. While I loved Lacey’s BONE SAW and really enjoyed Hayward’s THE FAITHFUL, this one maybe be the best book of the three. I’m going to try like hell to squeeze these last three 2018 releases into my reading schedule before making my end of […]
• November 18, 2018

  THE WINDOW World Tour 2018: Part One

  My new novel, THE WINDOW, has been garnering my best reviews yet. I’m humbled by the love and enjoyment many are experiencing with my 4th book. “To put it simply; this is Mr. Rolfe’s IT. This is his Boy’s Life.” “At times, The Window is brutally vicious.  It’s a story which pulls no punches and is right up there […]
• November 14, 2018

  (Review) THE RUST MAIDENS by Gwendolyn Kiste

  

    Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street. It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile at the shore, one strong spark, and the Cuyahoga […]
• October 17, 2018

  (Share the Horror Interview) CHAD LUTZKE and JOHN BODEN on Their New Release, OUT BEHIND THE BARN

  The boys crept to the window and watched as Miss Maggie carried the long bundle into the barn, the weight of it stooping her aging back. Rafter lights spilled from the barn doors, and Davey saw an arm fall from the canvas-wrapped parcel. He smiled. “She got someone!” Both children grinned and settled in their […]
• July 18, 2018

  BONE SAW: A horror book for horror fans and more. Patrick Lacey’s best yet.

  Bone Saw by Patrick Lacey My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Sometimes bad men are scarier than monsters.” Bone Saw is the latest novel from horror fiend, Patrick Lacey. In this b-movie monster flick come to life, the small town of Bass Falls is about to meet The Pigfoot (a unique creation all on his […]
• February 2, 2018

  (BOOK REVIEW) BROKEN SHELLS by Michael Patrick Hicks

  

    “He could only watch as a pasty arm jabbed at his face. His back arched as he screamed, the spiked forelimb spearing his eye. Warm jelly oozed down his face as the orb exploded…” BROKEN SHELLS (High Fever Books, 2017), the latest by author, Michael Patrick Hicks (REVOLVER, MASS HYSTERIA), is a wild underground […]
• July 17, 2017

  (Review) BONE WHITE by Ronald Malfi

  

  A landscape of frozen darkness punctuated by grim, gray days. The feeling like a buzz in your teeth. The scrape of bone on bone. . . Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims’ graves, in remote Dread’s Hand, Alaska. It’s not even a town; more like […]
• June 23, 2017

  (Review) BONE CHIMES by Kristopher Rufty

  

  A community where the mortgage is paid with blood. A man with an unhealthy devotion to his couch. A death machine that kills whoever its owner wants. A woman escapes one nightmare to find herself in another living hell. A boy learns more about his father than he ever wanted to know. Bone Chimes, the […]
• June 19, 2017

  (Review) CAVERN OF THE DAMNED by Russell James

  Broke and desperate, paleontologist Grant Coleman gets the chance of a lifetime exploring a long-sealed cave, the fabled home of a gigantic creatures. NPS Ranger McKinley Stinson discovers a rancher’s prize bull has been butchered by an airborne killer, and tracks the blood trail back to the re-opened cavern. But as she’s about to arrest […]