Faint of Heart by Jeff Strand (Book Review)
Rebecca is frightened of spending the night alone, but she assures her husband Gary that she'll be fine when he goes out camping with buddies. She knows she'll spend the entire time jumping at every noise, but she also knows that the danger is all in her head. By Sunday night, Gary still hasn't returned. And when somebody shows up at the house, it's not her husband. At gunpoint, Rebecca is kidnapped. They also have her husband and will give him back to her, but first, Rebecca has to relive his entire experience, step by step...and survive...
I like to read short stories between longer books for something different and quick. Also because if it sucks, well then I didn’t invest too much time or money... Continue reading
Ghosts of Rosewood Asylum by Stephen Prosapio (Book Review)
Zach Kalusky, host of Sci-D TV's Xavier Paranormal Investigators, is ecstatic when he's given the opportunity to explore the most haunted site in Chicago for a Halloween Special: Rosewood Asylum, a place plagued by decades of mysterious fires and unexplained events. It's Zach's dream investigation- but there's a catch: the network forces Xavier Paranormal Investigators to partner with their rivals, the Demon Hunters. Now, Zach must fight for both his show's integrity and his team's loyalty while trying to protect his own secret: that he, himself, is possessed.
About the only sort of movies these days that can scare me... Continue reading
Plague Town by Dana Fredsti (Book Review)
Ashley was just trying to get through a tough day when the world turned upside down. A terrifying virus appears, quickly becoming a pandemic that leaves its victims, not dead, but far worse. Attacked by zombies, Ashley discovers that she is a 'Wild-Card' -- immune to the virus -- and she is recruited to fight back and try to control the outbreak. It's Buffy meets the Walking Dead in a rapid-fire zombie adventure!
I was asked to review this and had no idea what I was getting into other then it was a zombie book. I haven’t read many of those so I figured why not... Continue reading
The World’s Creepiest Places by Bob Curran (Book Review)
There are some places in the world where humans quite simply should not go. Not just haunted places, but sites where ancient forces still hold sway. We can recognize such locations by the responses they evoke within usthat feeling we call "the creeps." Visit spooky locations from Ireland through the empty deserts of the Middle East, to the misty hills of Tibet and back through Europe to America.
I love books like this, or rather I want to love books like this. I always loved watching and reading stories about hauntings and other strange activity... Continue reading