Book Reviews

Horror is subjective. Different people are afraid of different things. But one thing that nearly all people are afraid of is death. While one’s own death can be a fearful prospect, the death of a loved one – especially an innocent baby – is the utmost in soul-wringing terror. In …

In my free time, you can find me perusing the shelves of local movie or book stores. On a recent trip, I struck out on my movie hunt, but I began to wonder if there were any books that would spark my interest. I had just finished The Drawing of …

One of our favorite horror authors and writer for PopHorror, Tim Miller, who has written over 40 books so far, mostly in the extreme horror genre, which he has continued to push, most recently with Snuff Film. Tim has decided to branch off into a different direction for his upcoming …

Reading Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three is an arduous task, to say the least. In this, the second entry in The Dark Tower series (read my review of the first book here), we follow the last Gunslinger, Roland of Gilead, down a desolate and dangerous beach …

John Carpenter’s The Thing is my favorite horror film of all time. It may be my favorite movie, period. I said as much in the retrospective I wrote for The Thing‘s 35th anniversary. It goes without saying that when I heard they were doing an illustrated tribute to the film …

The web is a great, big scary place and Benjamin Percy takes it to a whole new level. In his book, The Dark Net, he takes evil and mixes it with technology. The Dark Net is like the black market and deepest, darkest hole in the interwebs. It is used to …

It’s finally happening, PopHorror fans! James S. Murray of Trutv’s Impractical Jokers is releasing his first ever novel, Awakened! Yes, I know Impractical Jokers isn’t a horror show, but that doesn’t mean that the four lifelong friends only know how to make people laugh. Co-written with Sixth Cycle author Darren Wearmouth, Awakened …

Hell Cat of the Holt is the third story in Mark Cassell’s Shadow Fabric series. Although not a full novel, this novella expands upon the multi-dimensional lore the author began in his first two books in the trilogy, 2014’s The Shadow Fabric and 2017’s The Shadow Fabric Mythos: Vol. 1. Readers …

(Note: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.) After reading the pile of hogwash detailed in my last review, even an average book would have looked like a masterpiece in comparison. However, if you’d told me I would enjoy Jason Parent’s A Life Removed as …

Odds are, if you’re around my grandmother, you’ll find a Stephen King book within arm’s reach. One of her favorite series that King wrote was the Dark Tower novels. Being that I looked up to her so much, you could say that the franchise became my white whale… a goal that …