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FICTION REVIEWS
By ADAM GROVES


A
After Dark by Jeani Rector
The Age of Insects: Not Human by  Sparky Greene, Louis Pieper
Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Amarcord by Zoran Zivkovic
And Now The Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine edited by Jeani Rector
Angelwalk by Roger Elwood
Apple of My Eye by Amy Grech
Around A Dark Corner by Jeani Rector
As Fate Would Have It by Michael Louis Calvillo
The Association  by Bentley Little
Autumn by David Moody
The Ax by Donald E. Westlake
B
Bad Ronald by Jack Vance
Bearwalk by Lynne Sallot, Tom Peltier NEW!
The Beast Within by Edward Levy

Bereavements by Richard Lortz
The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom
Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Black Cherry by Doug Tennapel
Black Devil Doll by Stephen Romano
Black Glass by John Shirley
Blanket of White by Amy Grech
Bleed for You by Michael Louis Calvillo
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Blood & Gristle by Michael Louis Calvillo
Blood and Shadows by Joe R. Lansdale, Mark A. Nelson
Bloody War by Terry Grimwood
The Blue Canoe by T.M. Wright
Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg

The Broken Man by Michael Byers
Burn Witch Burn! by Abraham Merritt

By Reason of Insanity by Shane Stevens
C

The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck  by Alexander Laing
Candy in the Dumpster edited by Bill Breedlove
The Cannibal Within by Mark Mirabello
Cast A Cold Eye by Derryl Murphy, William Shunn
The Castle of Argol by Julien Gracq

Catastrophe by Dino Buzzati
Cellars by John Shirley
The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein
Cern Zoo (Nemonymous Nine) Edited by Des Lewis
Chaingang by Rex Miller
Changelings: A Double Fugue by Tom Marshall
Christmas with the Dead by Joe R. Lansdale
The City by James Herbert, Ian Miller
Clockwork by Philip Pullman
Clowns at Midnight by Terry Dowling
Cold House by T.M. Wright
Compartments by Zoran Zivkovic
The Compass Stone by Fernando Arrabal
Cone Zero (Nemonymous Eight) Edited by Des Lewis
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Count of Eleven by Ramsey Campbell
Crash by J.G. Ballard
Creatures of The Pool by Ramsey Campbell
The Curse of Latomba by Edward Hyde
Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King, Berni Wrightson
Cycle of Violence by Grayson Perry
D
Dagon by Fred Chappell

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
The Dark Mansion by H.R. Kaye
The Dark Pageant by Edward Lucie-Smith
Darkside by Dennis Etchison
Deadolescence: A Tale of Love and Sacrifice by Robert Devereaux
Death and Desire in the Age of Women by Michael Louis Calvillo
Death by Dreaming by Jon Manchip White
Death Tour by David J. Michael

The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr.

The Devil's Popess by Jehan Sylvius, Pierre de Ruysnes
The Disassembled Man by Nate Flexer
Doc Good's Traveling Show by Gene O'Neill
Doctor Lerne by Maurice Renard
Dog Blood by David Moody
The Dogfighter By Jonathan Betuel
The Dragon by William Schoell
Dr. Black and the Guerrillia by Brendan Connell
Dying to Live: Life Sentence by Kim Paffenroth
E
Eat Them Alive by Pierce Nace
El Diablo by Brian Azzarello, Danijel Zezelj
Eleven/Twenty Two/Sixty Three (11/22/63) by Stephen King

Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty

Enemy of the Good--Postscripts 19 Edited by Peter Crowther, Neck Gevers
Escape from Hell by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Escher's Loops by Zoran Zivkovic
Everville by Clive Barker
NEW!
Evil Companions by Michael Perkins
F
Fastyngange by Tim Wynne-Jones

Flowers of Hell by Morgan Drake
The Fog by Dennis Etchison
Four Stories Till the End by Zoran Zivkovic
Frankenstein '69
by Ed Martin
Freaks and Fantasies by Tod Robbins
Freezer Burn by Joe R. Lansdale
Fright Night by John Skipp, Craig Spector
From Inside by John Bergin
G
The Garden At 19 by Edgar Jepson
Gilbert and Edgar on Mars by Eric Brown
The Girl who Passed for Normal by Hugh Fleetwood
Glass Coffin Girls by Paul Jessup
God of the Razor by Joe R. Lansdale
God’s Demon by Wayne Barlowe
God Told Me To by C.K. Chandler
Golem100 by Alfred Bester
The Gray Zone by John R. Little
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
The Great Bagarozy By Helmut Krausser
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
The Green Round by Arthur Machen

The Green Woman by Peter Straub, Michael Easton, John Bolton
The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
Gunpowder by Joe Hill
H
Halloween by Curtis Richards
The Halloween Tree
by Ray Bradbury
Halloweenland by Al Sarrantonio
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Happy Now by Charles Higson
Hater by David Moody

The Haunter of the Dark
By H.P. Lovecraft, John Coulthart, Alan Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Heart of The Beast by Dean Motter, Judith Dupre, Sean Phillips
Hell by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hellbound Hearts Edited by Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan
Hellfire and Damnation by Connie Concoran Wilson
The Horde by Igor Baranko
Horns by Joe Hill
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
The House on the Borderland (Graphic Novel) by Richard Corben, Simon Revelstroke

How to Make Friends with Demons by Graham Joyce
The Howling by Gary Brander
I
I Will Rise by Michael Louis Calvillo
Inferno Edited by Ellen Datlow
Inferno by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
The Island by Peter Benchley
The Island by T.M. Wright
It by Stephen King
J
J.N. Williamson's Masques
Edited by J.N. Wiliamson, Mort Castle
 
Jeanne's Journal
by Mario Mercier

Joko’s Anniversary by Roland Topor
Junk Culture by Ted McKeever
K
Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan Vol. 1 Edited by Higashi Masao
The Kensei by Jon F. Merz
Kid Eternity by Grant Morrison, Duncan Fegredo
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers

King Stach's Wild Hunt
by
Uladzimir Karatkievic
L
Lairs of the Hidden Gods Vol. 1 Edited by Asamatsu Ken

Lairs of the Hidden Gods Vol. 2 Edited by Asamatsu Ken
Legion by William Peter Blatty
The Library by Zoran Zivkovic
The Life of Polycrates By Brendan Connell NEW!
The List
by Rich Koslowski

Little Boy Lost by T.M. Wright NEW!
The Little People by John Christopher
Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez
The Long Last Call by John Skipp
The Lost Traveller By Ruthven Todd

Love Song by Philip Jose Farmer
The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton
M
The M.D. by Thomas M. Disch
The Magic Wagon by Joe R. Lansdale
Magick and Misery by Lincoln Crisler
The Mailman by Bentley Little
Mall of Cthulhu by Seamus Cooper
Malpertuis by Jean Ray
The Man Upstairs by T.L. Parkinson
Mantids by Ron Dakron

A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
Memoria by Adam Pepper
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Metrophilias by Brendan Connell
Midnight Movie By Tobe Hooper, Alan Goldsher
Miss Tamara, the Reader by Zoran Zivkovic
Mister E by K.W. Jeter, John K. Snyder III, Jay Geldhof
Moju: The Blind Beast by Edogawa Rampo
A Monster at Christmas by Thomas Canty, Phil Hale
Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas
Mr. Overby is Falling
by Nathan Tyree
N
The Nail by Rob Zombie, Steve Niles, Nat Jones

Necropolis
by John Urbancik

Necroscope: Harry and The Pirates by Brian Lumley
The New Dead edited by Christopher Golden
The New Neighbor by Ray Garton
The Night Cache by Andy Duncan
Night of Tears by John Kimbro NEW!
Night of the Crabs by Guy N. Smith
Night Trippers by Mark Ricketts, Micah Farritor
No Way to Treat a Lady by William Goldman
Null Immortalis (Nemonymous Ten) Edited by Des Lewis
The Nun by Denis Diderot
O
Oak-Mot by Crispin Hellion Glover

Oddkins by Dean R. Koontz, Phil Parks
Old Order by Jonathan Janz
Olympus by Geoff Johns, Kris Grimminger, Butch Guice
One for the Road by Stephen King, James Hannah
Only Lovers Left Alive by Dave Wallis
Open Grave by Jeani Rector
Open Season by David Osborn
Orgy of the Blood Parasites by Jack Yeovil
The Other End by John Shirley
The Other Side by Alfred Kubin
The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos
P
Panorama of Hell by Hideshi Hino
NEW!
People Live Still in Cashtown Corners
by Tony Burgess
Perfume
by Patrick Suskind
Perramus: Escape From the Past by Alberto Breccia, Juan Sesturain

The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard, Scott Hampton
Pin by Andrew Neiderman
The Pines by Robert Dunbar

Play Little Victims by Kenneth Cook
Poisoning Eros by Wrath James White, Monica J. O’Rourke
Portrait of an Englishman in His Chateau by Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues
The Preserve by Patrick Lestewka
Q
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
Queen of K'n-Yan by Asamatsu Ken

R
Rain by Rolf F. Stark, Marlene Stevens

Raw Pain Max by C. Dean Anderssen
Red by Jack Ketchum

Red Stains Edited by Jack Hunter
Registry of Death By Matt Coyle, Peter Lamb
Reunion by Rick Hautala
Richard Matheson's Hell House by Ian Edginton, Simon Fraser
The Room by Hubert Selby Jr.
Rue St. Denis: Fantastic Tales by Andre Carpentier
S
Safe in the Woods by Stephen Romano

Santa Claus Conquers the Homophobes
by Robert Devereaux

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians by Lou Harry
Santa Steps Out by Robert Devereaux
Santa's Twin by Dean Koontz, Phil Parks
Sausagey Santa
by Calton Mellick III
The Savage Women by Mike Curtis
The Scribbler by Dan Schaffer
The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo
Seven Brains by Michael Louis Calvillo
Sex and Violence in Hollywood by Ray Garton
Shadow of The Dark Angel by Gene O'Neill
Shakespeare Undead by Lori Handeland
She by H. Rider Haggard
Sheep by Simon Maginn
The Shiny Narrow Grin by Jane Gaskell
Shock Festival by Stephen Romano
Sins of the Sirens Edited by John Everson
Sketching Evil by Donna Anders
Son of the Gun by Alexandro Jodorowsky, Georges Bees
The Sound of His Horn by Sarban
The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson
Spanky by Christopher Fowler
Spawn by Shawn Hutson
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
The Story of Noichi the Blind by Chet Williamson
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Super Fetus by Adam Pepper
Swan Lake by Patrick Kill
Sylvow by Douglas Thompson
T
Teenage Timberwolves: Lust for Lightning by James Havoc, Daniele Serra

Teratologist by Edward Lee, Wrath James White
The Thing by Alan Dean Foster
Thirty Days of Night by Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
This Ghosting Tide by Simon Clark
Thousand Faces Book 1 By Philippe Thirault, Marc Males
Through A Lens Darkly by James Cohen
The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce
Transparent Lovers by Scott Nicholson
The Travelling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
Twelve Collections and The Teashop by Zoran Zivkovic

Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine Vol. 2 Edited by Jeani Rector
Twentieth Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
U
Under The Dome
by Stephen King

The Unholy Three by Tod Robbins
Unholy Trinity by Robert Bloch
Unpleasant Tales by Brendan Connell
The Upturned Stone
by Scott Hampton

V
Vacation
by Jeremy C. Shipp
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval
Valhalla by Newton Thornburg
Videodrome by Jack Martin
Violent Silence by Paul Mayersberg
Violets of Dawn by Thomas Weisser
Voice of our Shadow by Jonathan Carroll
W
Waiting For October edited by Bill Breedlove
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Wave by Morton Rhue
WE3 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely
A Web of Black Widows by Scott William Carter
Weird Business edited by Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Klaw
While the Devil Waits by Jackson Meeks
The White Lama by Alexandro Jodorowsky, Georges Bess
Willy by Robert Dunbar
Wolf of Shadows by Whitley Strieber
The Woman by Jack Ketchum, Lucky McKee
X
X, Y by Michael Blumlein
Xelucha and Others
by M.P. Shiel

Z

Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
Zombie
by Joyce Carol Oates

 


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