The Cowboys: Time-Life Old West Series
A review of Time-Life’s Old West series opener The Cowboys – a 240-page deep dive into stampedes, roundups, and cowboy lore, scoring 9/10 from Tim.
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Woodstake: Three Days of Peace, Music, and Blood
A review of Woodstake, the vampire-meets-Woodstock graphic novel by Darin S. Cape and Felipe Kroll – fast-paced, gorgeous, and rated 7/10.
Confessions of a Puppetmaster: A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking – The Wild, Candid Story of Exploitation Cinema and a Fortune Made and Lost
Tim reviews Charles Band’s memoir Confessions of a Puppetmaster – a wild, candid look at 80s and 90s direct-to-video horror, rated a perfect 10.
In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts–Gatsby, Ghosts, and Grief
With In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts, Gwendolyn Kiste’s once again demonstrates that she is the master of revisiting the casts and locales of classic literature through a darkly distorted lens. We meet Mel, the daughter of Daisy Buchanan, as she is trying to navigate the grief of her mother’s passing and the difficulty of her […]
The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own–Horror Fiction at its Finest
A review of Gwendolyn Kiste’s short fiction collection The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own — masterful horror fiction where everyday people meet the fantastic.
Reviews From The Crypt: The Architecture Of Suspense – The Built World In The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock
This week in the Crypt: a look at Christine Madrid French’s The Architecture of Suspense — a biography of Hitchcock’s career plus an exploration of the built world in his films.
The Isle of the Dragon: The Last Flight of the Bugs Bunny storms the reading public!
Rolf Stibbe discusses his book The Isle of the Dragon: The Last Flight of the Bugs Bunny — an adventure tale he researched to ‘get it right.’ Watch the video post.