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“Heeeeeerrrreeeee’s, Johnnnnnnnnnny!�� Who doesn’t know that line or who cannot recall Jack Nicholson (Torrence) sticking his head through the bathroom door, grinning sadistically, holding an axe. In fact, I wonder what Jack’s career would look like now if he’d never been cast as King’s number one crazy dad. Probably still pretty amazing, considering he already [...]

I have a soft spot for adventure stories–and an even softer spot for archaeologists and/or others running around tropical jungles (hence Congo on this list earlier…and if the Indiana Jones franchise were based on books, The Temple of Doom would have been on this list too). I know these types of stories have become cliché, [...]

John Wayne Cleaver is not a serial killer. He knows he's a sociopath. He does all that stuff young sociopaths do: plays wit fire, butchers small animals, noses around the dead bodies that come to his mother's mortuary. Oh–and he wets his bed. Hannibal Lecter did that, didn't he? Anyway, fearing his dark inner demons, [...]

I was away for the weekend, so have to make up with a double post. I decided to stick with a horror theme today and do two horror novels. The first review is Guests by Bentley Little. If you haven't read him, he's an American horror writer, often overlooked. However, he was discovered by Dean [...]

This is the first of three pulp thrillers from Duane Swierczynski, who also writes for Marvel Comics. In a nutshell: Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop still reeling from the revenge killing of his former partner's entire family, fears one thing above all else: that he'll suffer the same fate. Languishing in self-imposed exile, Hardie has become [...]

Dean Koontz is one of the world's best paid author's (bringing in more than twenty five million annually!), which means everybody who's interested in books has probably read him–which is why I didn't choose to review one of his more popular works like Watchers. Eyes of Darkness isn't my favorite Dean Koontz book, but it [...]

Instead of reviewing this book specifically, I'm going to talk about the author's work in general. I read a Kevin O'Brien novel ages ago and I liked it. But then I didn't read another for about ten years. This might be because I was traveling, and while O'Brien is an established NYT bestselling author, many [...]

First off, I didn't want to write a review on this book because everyone has probably already read it. But I saw it there in my "read" book list on ŷ������ and remembered what a good time it was. Michael Crichton (RIP big guy) was an amazing storyteller whose most unique talent, I believe, was [...]

Recap: My A-Z theme is book reviews. Today's is B for Blood Island by H. Terrel Griffin. Okay, first a quick summary: Matt Royal was a Florida attorney. But the stress from the job and excesssive drinking cost him his marriage, and now he's living modestly in Longboat Key, Florida. When his ex-wife Laura shows [...]

Recap: My A-Z theme is book reviews. Today's is B for Blood Island by H. Terrel Griffin. Okay, first a quick summary: Matt Royal was a Florida attorney. But the stress from the job and excesssive drinking cost him his marriage, and now he's living modestly in Longboat Key, Florida. When his ex-wife Laura shows [...]