Erik Henry Vick has been around for a while and is well-known in independent dark fantasy circles. The Demon King isn’t his first book, but the first of his I have read (listened to). What we have here is a story about a small town where evil entities are taking children. The book has two distinct timelines where the children […]
If It Bleeds by Stephen King
I have come to the conclusion over the last year or so that the so-called sub-genre of Weird Fiction has been hiding in the shadows for too long and many square books have been hammered into the round genres of horror, fantasy and so forth. While enough hammering will get said book into said hole, it never quite fits. To […]
Full Throttle by Joe Hill
Format: Downloadable audiobookObtained from: Library (support your public library people)Listening time: 15 hours 45 minutesPublisher: Harper AudioISBN: 9780062956644Narrator: Zachary Quinto I was thinking as I mulled over writing this that like his father, it had been a while since I’d read any Joe Hill (Horns a few years ago). Of course, seeing as I got hit in the head a […]
The Institute by Stephen King
**Audiobook Warning** So, we’ve got telekinetic kids, a small town cop (actually, two) who is more than meets the eye, shadowy agents, numerous references to Maine and a Scooby Doo ending. Yes, people, we are in Stephen King territory. To be fair, apart from the first two books in the Dark Tower series (loved book one, not so much book […]