Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines review
*warning-gratuitous nostalgia ahead* I'm going to break out and oldie but a goodie from my computer files. Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines is a ten-year-old computer game from Activision which...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with Shana Festa
Hey readers,Another treat for you today! Shana Festa, author of Time of Death: Induction (reviewed here) and host of the Bookie Monster site (here) has agreed to answer a few questions about her book....
View ArticleDead Tide Rising review
"The dead rule Saint Petersburg, FL. The living come to save it are worse." -My tagline for this book. There's two kinds of zombie novels. The first kind of zombie novel is the disaster...
View ArticleThe Breadwinner review
"A daddy is the bread winner, you dig what I’m saying? And if he don’t win that bread, he just don’t come around." -Darth Vader, Vader Sessions. I like zombie novels which are about...
View ArticleStar Wars: Legacy (hardcover) volume 1
Star Wars: Legacy is one of the few grand experiments in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. A fifty-six issue comic book series with an ongoing sequel series, it was one of the rare attempts to do...
View ArticleWhat is Post-Lovecraftian fiction?
H.P. Lovecraft is one of the founding fathers of American horror, influencing the likes of everyone from Stephen King to John Carpenter. He was part of a circle of writers which included Robert...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead (video game, non-spoiler) review
The Walking Dead franchise has done more to mainstream zombie movies since, well, just about anything. It's been a fight to do so for some time now and there have been plenty of victories along the...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead (video game, spoiler) review
*warning - this will be LONG* The Walking Dead is a very difficult game to review because you have to take the game in two different ways. The first way is on an individual level, which is that it...
View ArticleThe Dresden Files: Storm Front
I love this series. I love this series so much, I'm going to go back and re-read it for the third time and review each individual book on my blog. That's how much I love the Dresden Files. What...
View ArticleEternal Vigilance review
Before vampires sparkled but after they were soulless monsters existing to prey on virginal girls in diaphanous white gowns, there was a time when the vampire was a tortured romantic figure. A...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead (video game): 400 Days
The Walking Dead: 400 Days is a DLC containing a series of vignettes centered around a group of survivors struggling to make it to the titular 400 days in. The vignettes are all during different...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead vol 3#: Safety Behind Bars
The Walking Dead's third trade paperback is an interesting change-up in the narrative and something I'm quite glad of. It's also the first of the volumes I have some serious reservations of, in...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury review
The Road to Woodbury starts off really strong then stumbles before falling down completely. The second in a series of novels written as supplementary material for The Walking Dead comic books...
View ArticleSplatterhouse (2010) review
Sort of like Devil May Cry, except not as fun. Or fun at all, really. Splatterhouse (2010) is a game I really should have enjoyed but, unfortunately, has proven to be disappointment to my...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 1: All That Remains
After finishing All That Remains, I am left with one simple fact: Clementine is one hardcore [censored]. I've played a lot of characters over my decades of video gaming. I've played plumbers,...
View ArticleThe Rhesus Chart review
"Everybody knows vampires don't exist." I love the Laundry series, it's one of the most interesting urban fantasy series I've seen in recent years. It's unique combination of British spy...
View ArticleDead Rising 2: Off the Record review
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is a very difficult game to review. This is due to the fact it's only a mildly tweaked version of Dead Rising 2. 90% of the game is identical to Dead Rising 2 with the...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with Gabrielle Faust!
Hey readers,An extra-special treat for you today! Gabrielle Faust, author of Eternal Vigilance (reviewed here) and host of a truly excellent website (here) has decided to grant us an interview for...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 2: A House Divided review
Note: Due to the nature of serialized storytelling, this will contain spoilers for the episodes prior to the one I'm reviewing. The episodic nature of the Telltale video games is both a blessing...
View ArticleDoc of the Dead review
Doc of the Dead, standing for "Documentary of the Dead", is the (as now) definitive work explaining the appeal of zombies in popular culture. At an hour and a half, it feels like it's just barely...
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