Category Archives: Everyday I Read the Book: Literary Thoughts

Demon speak with author Rickey Russell!

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Daniel

Author Rickey Russell is also a fellow horror blogger, running a site called “A Southern Life in Scandalous Times.” Demon in the Mist, his first novel, is a story of a small town being terrorized by a supernatural monster from … Continue reading →

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WD Jackson’s Slasher goes Hollywood!

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Daniel

Author WD Jackson is a huge fan of horror films, particularly slasher films, so he’s taken the popular horror genre and woven it into his novel Slasher, about the making of a Hollywood slasher film that turns real when scream … Continue reading →

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Til death do these marriages part

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Daniel

At what point in a marriage do you really know your spouse? Do you ever truly know them? Don’t be expecting cheap BOO! scares from Honeymoon or A Good Marriage. They are deeply frightening mindfucks that will have you doubting … Continue reading →

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Talking gay horror short stories with author Mark Allan Gunnells

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Daniel

I’ve covered some of the gay horror fiction of Mark Allan Gunnells before. You can read my blog about his gay slasher Sequel here, and I cover his gay zombie novel Asylum here. Plus, he allowed me to post one … Continue reading →

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The dark and trippy world of Poe re-imagined

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Daniel

The indie horror anthology Tales of Poe comes to us from indie horror directors Bart Mastronardi (Vindication, which I blog about here) and Alan Rowe Kelly (whose movies I cover here). Not only do they give two of Poe’s stories … Continue reading →

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Tamara – throwback to the age of horror movie novelizations

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Daniel

Growing up in the 1980s, I devoured novelizations of horror movies—Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Fog, Jaws 2, Dressed to Kill, April Fools’ Day, Poltergeist—always thrilled to discover embellishments by the writers or scenes from the screenplay that … Continue reading →

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Looking for Mr. Right? Find’m and you’ll regret it…

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Daniel

The possible dangers of gay hookup apps are already a reality. But in his gay horror short story collection Find’m, author Simon Graves pits men, both openly gay and closeted, against a myriad of evil men and mysterious creatures of … Continue reading →

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The Puppet Masters – Ooh. Scary. Body snatchers vs. the government

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Daniel

Maybe you have to be a huge fan of author Robert Heinlein to appreciate the 1994 flick The Puppet Masters. Or maybe you just have to be someone who doesn’t think an army presence ruins a horror movie, as I … Continue reading →

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The film and fiction of gay horror writer Scotty Mullen

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Daniel

Writer Scotty Mullen is stoked to do zombie horror. A while back I blogged about the zombedy The Coed and the Zombie Stoner here. It’s loaded with sex, zombies, drag…and a guy’s flirtations with butt-bangin’. Well now Scotty Mullen, the writer … Continue reading →

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A dog is man’s best friend…especially when man is man’s worst enemy

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Daniel

I was at a reading in New York City with several of my fellow Bold Strokes Books authors, and after David Swatling read an excerpt from his book (like a master storyteller) about a dog finding a human head in … Continue reading →

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