Pirate Latitudes Author: Michael Crichton Year: [2009] By the shivering timbers of Davy Jones, this book is a blast! Posthumously released after the unfortunate departure of Michael Crichton, this swashbuckler is loaded to the gunwhale with adventure, intrigue, memorable characters and thrills of almost every description you can conceive of when you think anything pirate- sea … Continue reading
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[Book Review] Bite: A Vampire Handbook by Kevin Jackson
Bite: A Vampire Handbook Author: Kevin Jackson Year: 2009 Publisher: Portobello Books Author’s Note: Before I start with this review, I’d like to send a big thank you to Bea Harper (one of our lovely site contributors) for gifting me this book. Vampires are and have been for a long time a source of fear, … Continue reading
[Bea’s Book Reviews] The Woman In Black (1983)
The Woman In Black Author: Suzanne Hill Year: [1983] Let’s face it, in a global saturation of vampires, were-creatures, demons, slashers, very rarely is intelligent horror given a look-in and rarely still is it so simple yet irrepressibly effective. Susan Hill’s gothique novella “The Woman in Black” is an exercise of a sparse genre (the ghost … Continue reading
[Bea’s Book Reviews] The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
The Diary of a Young Girl Author: Anne Frank Year: [1947] “The Diary of a Young Girl” is one of the most enduring, personal and most heart-breaking books ever because it is not a work of fiction but one of fact as seen through the eyes of a girl during the Holocaust during the Nazi … Continue reading
[Bea’s Book Reviews] World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006)
“World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” Author: Max Brooks Year: 2006 Allow me to be controversial with you- I am not a huge zombie fan. Let me elaborate- I’m not a huge, indiscriminate zombie fan. I’m not one of those folks who jumps at everything zombie related because truth me told, … Continue reading
[Graphic Novel Review] Changing Ways Book 1
Writer & Artist: Justin Randall The Book: Changing Ways is easily one of the most unique and messed up books I have read for quite some time (Paul Bedford’s The List also goes in that category). Going into the book for the first time, I really had no idea what I was in for, I … Continue reading
[Bea’s Book Reviews] The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (1979)
I am an enormous fan of fairy tales because they were a huge part of my childhood and have been a huge influence on me as a writer (yeah, I write, whodathunk?). Grimm’s fairy stories were my bread and butter in the later years of primary school and that seeped into my high school years, … Continue reading
[Graphic Novel Review] The Deep: Vanishing Island
Author: Tom Taylor Artist: James Brouwer Review: From the moment I finished The Deep: Here Be Dragons I knew I wanted more, the book had left off on a hint that there would be another. So when Vanishing Island was announced, I was very excited and I have been eagerly awaiting the book. Now that … Continue reading
[Book Review] The Deep: Here Be Dragons by Tom Taylor & James Brouwer
It wasn’t long ago that I celebrated another birthday, and that date happened to fall on the day that Gestalt Comics were having a book launch at the awesome All-Star Comics. Spending my birthday at a comic book store, with a launch of some awesome new titles, could that have worked out any better? It … Continue reading
Book Review – Dropping Fear by Mike Catalano
So way back over a year ago, we had a little podcast. An interview with then new author Mike Catalano on his debut Dropping Fear. Mike is a good friend; we met through Arrow In The Head when he was a news editor. I was very excited to chat to him about his book, I … Continue reading
Book Review – Celluloid Serial Killers: The Real Monsters Behind The Movies
4/5 Paul B. Kidd has been writing about true crime for many years, he specialises in Australian true crime. Tackling the subject of serial killers is not an easy one, however Kidd has a special knack for writing about true crime. What he has done here is examine films over the years which … Continue reading