Submerged Thomas F. Monteleone Samhain Publications March 1, 2015 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon I’m a sucker for novels that feature submarines, and Thomas F. Monteleone starts off with a fine one: Submerged is an epic thriller about a secret Nazi submarine and its...
I Will Rot Without You Danger Slater Fungasm Press February 8, 2016 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon Whenever I read a Bizarro novel, I wonder if I will live through it. I have risked my life in literary jungles before: I grew up on Luis Bunuel movies and equally surreal...
The Poison Artist Jonathan Moore Houghton Mifflin Harcourt January 26, 2016 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon In Jonathan Moore’s incredibly intelligent and creepy psychological horror/suspense novel, The Poison Artist, San Francisco toxicologist Caleb Maddox has an...
Spore Tamara Jones Samhain Publications June 2, 2015 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon Tamara Jones’ ambitious novel Spore has a great not-a-zombie premise. Horror comic artist Sean Casey wakes up to find ten naked people wandering in his back yard. They are disoriented...
Brother Ania Ahlborn Gallery Books September 29, 2015 Reviewed by Marvin P. Vernon Brother by Ania Ahlborn is easily the most disturbing book I have read this year. It fits into a personal reading category I call “Loved and Hated,” sitting comfortably (or perhaps...
