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Andrew Plein

Review – Way of Shadows: Graphic Novel

There are those favorite book series, ones that you can’t get enough of and hope beyond hope that will get the film treatment. For me that was the Night Angel Trilogy by author Brent Weeks. During my rather long wait I made quite the discovery, they were making a graphic novel. Being something of a

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llyzabeth

Review: Koko Takes a Holiday

I’ve been trying to get a few more 2014 books under my belt before New Year’s, and next on the list is Kierran Shea’s first novel, “Koko Takes a Holiday.” If you’re looking for a family friendly, feel-good, classy novel…you’d better go look somewhere else. But if you’re looking for a fun, violent, blood-and-gore sci-fi

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Afterworlds

“Well, honey, maybe you should pretend to be dead.” “What?” The gunman looked up from the wounded on the floor, and I could see the glitter of eyes through the two holes in the mask. He was staring straight at me. “If there’s no way to get to safety,” she said carefully, “maybe you should

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The Seventh Bride

Ursula Vernon, also known as Ursulav, has been the purveyor of the weirdly beautiful, and the beautifully weird, for over a decade now. Her artwork is impossible to categorize; if you were to start combining random words out of the dictionary you’d have a good chance of accidentally describing something she’s painted. Anthropomorphic saints? Plenty

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Prince Lestat

That’s what they all love about Lestat. He says we’re damned and then he behaves as if Hell has no dominion over him. Anne Rice doesn’t need a lot of introduction. In 1976 she published Interview with the Vampire, which pretty much shaped the course of all vampire fiction from then on. The whole concept of vampires changed from things-that-go-bump-in-the-night,

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The Complete ElfQuest Volume 1 – The Original Quest

If you’re familiar with the ElfQuest series at all, you probably already understand why I think it’s amazing, epic, and one of the most gloriously beautiful comic book series ever created. If you’re not familiar with ElfQuest…well where the heck have you been? First printed waaaaay back in 1978, ElfQuest started as an independently owned and published

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Review: The Six-Gun Tarot

Why is Golgotha the town where the owls speak and the stones moan? Why is this the town that attracts monsters and saints, both mortal and preternatural? Why is our schoolhouse haunted? Why did Old Lady Bellamy wear the skins of corpses on the new moon? How did old Odd Tom’s dolls come to life

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Kathryn Adams

Halloween: Our favorite horror books

Horror novels are good any time of the year, but the best time for them is right around Halloween. With the weather getting cooler and the nights getting longer, there’s nothing like curling up in a dark room with a cup of hot chocolate and a great horror story and scaring the hell out of

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Afterlife with Archie

The elements of the story are all familiar: a tragic accident, a grieving loved one, a forbidden magic spell to bring the dead back to life. What starts out with the best intentions ends with an entire town under attack by a hoard of zombies. The difference here is that this isn’t Stephen King or

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