Overview: Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four short stories by Stephen King. Short Intro: I have been a longtime fan of Stephen King’s work. Even though I struggled to get through his post-accident novels, he is still one of my favorite authors because he introduced me to the horror genre. Book Summary: [...] Read more »
Horror Novel: Infected, by Scott Sigler
After reading and enjoying Sigler’s latest book, Ancestor, I decided to read Infected. Sigler’s work reminds me a lot of Stephen King’s, as far as the gore factor and writing style are concerned. However, his horror novels have a punch of their own. Summary “Scary” Perry Dawsey wakes up one morning with seven rashes spread [...] Read more »
Horns: An Imaginative Take on Hell and Revenge
Ig Perrish wakes up one morning with a nasty hangover and discovers that he has grown a set of horns on his head. He isn’t sure what happened to him and why people are suddenly opening up to him with their evil thoughts and intentions. All he knows is that his life is a living [...] Read more »
Duma Key: Satisfyingly Creepy
Stephen King draws a lot from his experience with his accident when he fleshed out the character of Edgar Freemantle. Freemantle was the owner of his own construction company until a crane crushed him inside his truck and changed his life forever. If you want to learn more about the plot, visit Amazon to get [...] Read more »
Cemetery Manager and Three Gravediggers Caught in a Grisly Scheme
In an effort to resell cemetery plots, three gravediggers and and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses in Burr Oak Cemetery and tossed them in a remote area 12 miles south of Chicago. Burr Oak Cemetery holds such legendary people such as lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington. [...] Read more »
The Happening in Theaters on Friday the 13th
When I first saw the first trailer for M. Night Syamalan’s latest film, The Happening, I was intrigued and still am. I’ve always enjoyed apocalyptic stories, and I find it especially cool that the movie is premiering on Friday the 13th. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, I’ve tacked it here for you to [...] Read more »
Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door
I read the book when it came out sometime in the mid to late ’90s. It was a deeply disturbing portrait of severe child abuse, inflicted on a 13 year-old. Ketchum did an awesome job of portraying the psychologies of the victim and the abuse, as well as the nightmarish descriptions of the incidents as [...] Read more »
I Am Legend
I have a confession to make. This book has sat on my “To Read” pile for about a decade because I couldn’t get myself to read a vampire story. I felt the genre was too trendy when it began to boom in the 90′s, and I don’t like to follow trends. I bought the book [...] Read more »
The Dark Room
I’ve added a new link category as well as a very interesting blog on the subject of horror writing and writers. Guy Adams, the author of The Dark Room, is a published author and Senior Editor of Humdrumming Publishers. For those of you who are interested in this genre (thinking of you, Ben and Fred), [...] Read more »
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