Category: Reviews

Book Review: Life Is What Happens Between Advertisements by Brian Auspice

March 19, 2018
5 mins to read

“If you like your novellas to lead you off the beaten track into an adventure in narrative style, while still delivering an entertaining and thought-provoking story, you can’t go wrong with this book.” Brian Auspice’s first book, Deep Blue (Eraserhead Press, 2014), was released as part of the New Bizarro Author Series and, given …

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Book Review: The Detained by Kristopher Triana

March 12, 2018
4 mins to read

“An engaging and entertaining read that will keep you gripped from beginning to end.” His earlier work has drawn praise from sites like Publisher’s Weekly and Rue Morgue, while Jack Ketchum referred to his forthcoming novel Full Brutal (Grindhouse Press, 2018) as “compulsive reading”. It seems that Kristopher Triana has burst onto the horror scene …

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Book Review: The Church of Latter-Day Eugenics by Chris Kelso and Tom Bradley

February 21, 2018
5 mins to read

“Kelso and Bradley have joined forces to deliver a work of unadulterated Bizarro genius.” Stalwarts of the Bizarro fiction scene, a collaboration between Tom Bradley and Chris Kelso seemed inevitable. With over twenty books in print—both fiction and non-fiction—Bradley has received praise from venues such as Forbes magazine and 3A.M. Magazine as well as …

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Book Review: Witnesses by Anthony Watson

February 14, 2018
6 mins to read

“The story is one which harks back to those classic novels of the 70s and 80s, with its use of occultism, the impending ‘end of the world’ scenario. There are shades of James Herbert, touches of Graham Masterton, even hints of Clive Barker.” Newly released from Crowded Quarantine Publications (run by Adam Millard, himself …