IN EXTREMIS

John Shirley has been my favorite punk since I stumbled upon a little paperback of his, quite by accident, called IN DARKNESS WAITING. It wasn’t a perfect book, but it was utterly unlike anything I had read up to that point and to say that it blew me away would be an...

Brooklyn Knight

It seems more and more to me that urban fantasy is the big thing right now. You can’t throw a stick in a bookstore, provided you can still find an honest to goodness bookstore, without hitting a book about a wizard, witch, she-vamp, or some other supernatural-tinged...

iZombie Vol. 1: Dead to the World

As if you couldn’t tell from the title, iZOMBIE is not your usual zombie, gut-munching story. it is also not a novel, but a graphic novel. Yeah that’s big boy talk for a comic book series bound together in a single book. Anyway, the story is set in the modern...

Through the Eyes of the Undead

Yay, another collection of zombie stories. Now don’t get me wrong, I love the cavorting cadavers, I really do. I was a zombie guy before it was cool and everyone else was into misunderstood, pretty boy vampires. Hmm, funny how some things never change. But whatever,...