Review: “The Loop” by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Jeremy Robert Johnson is part of the Chuck Palahniuk school of shock fiction. He’s been around for years, producing an almost underground brand of intriguing off-the-wall tales categorized as “bizarro.” The thrust of the dark genre is that nothing is off-limits, so...
Review: “The Residence” by Andrew Pyper
Canadian author Andrew Pyper burst onto the crime-fiction scene with his horrific whodunnit Lost Girls, about two teenaged girls killed in northern Ontario—and the supernatural history of the town in which they’re murdered. It was one of those debuts that makes you...
Review: “Antkind” by Charlie Kaufman
Are you a fan of Spike Jonz’s Being John Malkovich? How about his film Adaptation? If so, you’re familiar with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the out-of-leftfield writer who seems to live inside his own head. His writing is always a trippy wander through a...
Review: “Devolution” by Max Brooks
Did you know that Mel Brooks’ son is responsible for some of the most foundational zombie books of the 21st century? Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide debuted in 2003 and ascended the charts until it attained international bestseller status, becoming a fixture on...
Review: “Agency” by William Gibson
William Gibson burst onto the sci-fi scene in 1984 with his groundbreaking paperback original Neuromancer, which provided the foundation for a whole new genre called cyberpunk (and which was influenced heavily by Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner). Gibson even coined the...
Review: “Providence” by Max Barry
I became aware of Australian writer Max Barry (at that time, spelled Maxx Barry) when he debuted with his first novel Syrup, which concerns a marketing graduate who comes up with a scintillating new idea for Coca-Cola but is beset by backstabbing challenges. It’s an...
Review: “Eight Perfect Murders” by Peter Swanson
Peter Swanson’s breakthrough novel was 2015’s The Kind Worth Killing, a twisty, cat-and-mouse crime novel that ended up as one of my favorites of that year. After, I sought out his debut novel The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, another very interesting psychological...
Review: “A Lush and Seething Hell” by John Hornor Jacobs
John Hornor Jacobs boasts a fun back story: He burst onto the horror scene at 40 years old with a book called Southern Gods, which began as a rough draft written during NanoWriMo and ended up on the nomination ballot for the horror genre’s esteemed Stoker award for...
Review: “That Left Turn at Albuquerque” by Scott Phillips
Scott Phillips burst onto the crime scene with his superb, pitch-black thriller The Ice Harvest, which was made into pretty good film starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton—but the original novel has an evil-grin dark humor that’ll knock you flat. Published in...
Review: “Full Throttle” by Joe Hill
The secret’s been out for years now, but in case you didn’t know it—and in case you’ve never seen a photo of him—Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King. He came admirably to prominence outside the shadow of his father with the excellent collection of short stories, 20th...
Jason Bovberg is the author of Loser Baby, the Blood trilogy—Blood Red, Draw Blood, and Blood Dawn—and The Naked Dame. His forthcoming books include Tessa Goes Down, a border noir, and A Small Poisonous Act, a suburban crime novel. He is editor/publisher of Dark Highway Press, which published the controversial, erotic fairy tale Santa Steps Out and the weird western anthology Skull Full of Spurs. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife Barb, his daughters Harper and Sophie, and his canines Rocky and Rango.
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