The Cage by Jason Brannon

The Cage

Jason Brannon

 

Jason Brannon’s The Cage is a novel of many different things. It’s a novel of how being on the other side of the law can get you into trouble; a novel about how a family can be going through a difficult time; and it’s a novel about pure horror.

The Cage doesn’t take too long to hook you. Within the first few pages you’re wanting to read more, especially when you’re wondering what Captain Jack Omaha has for his clients to ‘hunt.’ Little do they know that Jack Omaha isn’t all he is to be.

But, Jason has a way of switching so easily–so smoothly–into a different setting that it makes you upset that you’re leaving your favorite part, which is why you continue reading. The action is well done, the suspense is non-stop, and the ending leaves you wanting more of the story.

Season of Slaughter ghostwritten by Doug Wojtowicz

Season of Slaughter

Ghostwritten by Doug Wojtowicz

 

Season of Slaughter may not be considered a horror novel to many, but an action novel with big guns and fights and all that kind of stuff that action novels are famous for, but to me I see a real horror in the book. Season of Slaughter deals with terrorism at its highest level, and when I mean highest level, you’re talking about the deaths of hundreds of innocents.

It all starts out when two men known as Dark and Adonis attack and airport. Two men–only these two men–kill thousands, one slaughtering people on the main floor of the airport while the other is blowing up planes. When Stony Farm–an elite military force–is called in to try  to stop them, one of the men ends up seriously injured and in the hospital.

Mack Bolan is pissed.

Mack Bolan is the main character of the novel, and he will stop at nothing to avenge the friend that was put in the hospital and the hundreds of people that were killed in one single night. He has every reason to take down this terrorist faction, and he will spare no mercy to anyone who gets in his way.

Doug Wojtowicz, the ghostwriter for this novel (and several others, mind you,) knows how to anti up the suspense just when he needs to. It’s a book that you won’t want to stop reading, and even if you’re not a big action fan, this one will make you change your mind about the genre. I wasn’t all that big for action, but he knows how to do it well. I highly recommend Season of Slaughter for anybody who wants a good horror/action read.

(Note: It shows the author as Don Pendleton, but it is ghostwritten by Doug Wojtowicz.) 

A Man of Two Worlds by Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc

A Man of Two Worlds

Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc

 

Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc’s A Man of Two Worlds is another beautiful book that the Mistress of Macabre has written. It’s a story about a man who’s becoming bankrupt during the production of a movie, bankrupt because of a pesky ghost. The main character, Robyne, meets a friend at a local gothic nightclub, and when the friend asks if he wants some help . . . The help isn’t exactly what he was looking for, especially when they end up being of the supernatural.

  

I am amazed with Andrea’s way to write a good story. Usually you find the supernatural books of today to be boring, dull, or with such a slow start that you can’t even get through them. But Andrea’s books are not like that, not at all. Andrea is very good at writing what she writes, which is chilling horror, beautiful romance and dramatic suspense. I don’t think there’s any other way to describe A Man of Two Worlds. It’s a book that you pick up and you don’t want to put down until you finish, it’s really that good.

  

For those of you who haven’t heard or read anything of Andrea’s, you need to go pick something up. A Man of Two Worlds is the Preditors and Editors award-winning novel, now do you want to go buy it? Even if it wasn’t an award winner, it still should be bought. It’s a beautiful, chilling story of what happens through curses and the supernatural, and if you don’t pick it up you’re cheating yourself out of a real good read.

Spook Rock by Pasquale Monroe

Spook Rock

Paquale Monroe

 

Spook Rock is a book that is both strange and mystifying at the same time. You’ll get the impression that you’re reading a monster book if you look at the front cover, and you won’t get much of an idea of the book from the back cover. (I personally think that what Pasquale did was a good marketing strategy, good on you Pat!) But this is a REALLY good book, to say the least.

Brad Banning is the main character in this book, and he’s just opened his film production company. He and his crew of film people decide to do a documentary on ‘Spook Rock,’ a local legend that is surrounded with scarce truths of the Salem Witchcraft Trials.

When they get settled in and the crew goes to a local place to get some food and drink, an old man starts talking to them about Spook Rock and about how the place is evil, and about how should they stay away from the place.

The man dies and the crew gets even more creeped out . . .

And then there’s a strange, mysterious woman that is following around the crew.

I really liked this book, but it is a lengthy read, but I like my books that way. It’s full of things that make different varieties of horror good: witches, zombies, Greek mythology; all of that good stuff is in this book. The book is beautifully written, and you’re cheating yourself out of a good read it you don’t pick this book up.

I can’t wait to read some more of Pasquale Monroe’s fiction.

Dying to Live by Kim Paffenroth

Dying to Live

Kim Paffenroth

 

There’s a secret part of Earth that’s hidden to most people, and that place is called Hell. The only problem is that Hell has come to Earth, but in the form of mindless killers that were once human.

Dying To live is not only an intricate novel, but it also makes the reader think. Paffenroth is very intelligent in the way he tells a story, especially how he uses the way people think and react to a situation to make the characters seem more real. He does this by creating Jonah Caine, and by telling his story in first-person.

First-person novels are usually more dramatic, but not a lot of people read them because they get confused with the way the writer is trying to interpret the way the character is acting. There’s a hidden part in the first-person genre that’s hard to crack open and spill open its contents, but Paffenroth does it well. He makes sure to keep the reader entertained while telling his version of the end of the world, and this way, he makes the read excellent.

 

So, are you Dying To Live?

Down the Road: On the Last Day by Bowie Ibarra

Down the Road: On the Last Day

Bowie Ibarra

 

The prequel to this book did itself good by creating a story that made itself stand out, but with the sequel, the book seems to jut out on the bookshelf with a bloody and violent cover, one that official says, ‘Do not be alarmed, everything is under control . . .’

How’s that for drawing somebody into the book? Ibarra makes sure that people read by introducing a lot of interesting characters, and from where George leaves off, we enter the tale of a whole mix of other characters that introduce the reader to a variety of different survivors. There’s women who are as tough as nails, men who are corrupted by the savage tenacity of a brutal world, and a young child who believes himself to be his favorite cartoon character when things get bad. Ibarra is able to tell a good story, just like he did in the first book, he shows us how tough it would be to survive in such a world. Zombies are constantly lurking, and with FEMA still on the loose as they try to put the survivors in contained, dangerous encampments–which are meant to protect them–the world is even a more dangerous place than it had been before.

Down the Road: On the Last Day is violent, bloody, erotic and sexy with a whole lot of trouble mixed into it. Read the book, because as we all know, They’re coming to get you. 

Down the Road by Bowie Ibarra

Down the Road

Bowie Ibarra

 

Down the Road tells of a tale of a man named George, and his trip down the road, hence the title. The book shows how a single man can survive in a world that is infested with the dangerous, living dead, which will do anything to devour him and any other living survivor. George makes his way through Texas while trying to find a place to live, and along the way, he runs into several things that can endanger him; FEMA, other survivors, love, and most importantly, the undead that walk the roads.

Ibarra shows us how an original tale can be done, and he shows us how good a literary mind can weave a tale of brilliance. Zombie tales can be mindless, or they can be well done, and Ibarra does just that. He shows us how a tale of survivor can be both beautiful and horrific at the same time. He creates a cast of characters that he uses to both drive the story and to show the way of several different people, and he does it in a well done manner. There is, and I quote, nothing wrong with this book, and I don’t think there could be anything that could ever be wrong. He wrote this in such a powerful way that it leaves an imprint in your mind, and makes it one of the tales of the zombie apocalypse that sticks in your head.

Violent, beautiful, and at the same time, emotional, Down the Road is a tale that needs to be read.

Resident Evil: Chaos- A Short Film by Michael Ramova

Resident Evil: Chaos

(This is a R (Restricted) movie.)

Michael Ramova (www.michaelramova.com) stuns and startles with his new adaptation of Resident Evil: Chaos. Bridging the events of the Resident Evil and the Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Chaos shows us what happened btween the two, and how Racoon City came to be infected. With powerful actors, a great storyline, and a director who’s talent shows in the movie, it is a definite buy if any fan of Resident Evil or a zombie fan alike.

It begins with two men who are trying to assassinate George, a medical doctor at Racoon City hospital. But when the attempt fails and the contagion ends up getting out, the survivors must escape the plague.

Though short with the main storyline, the DVD includes Sub Chapters, which tell of different survivors as they travel through and what they experience before and after the release of the T-Virus. The DVD includes the main storyline, the Sub Chapters, Bloopers, Photos, and other Trailers of Ramova’s work.

If you’re looking for something to spark your interest, pick up Resident Evil: Chaos. For only three dollars for shipping, it’s a good buy. I enjoyed it, and I’m sure you will too. Pick up your copy at www.michaelramova.com.

Twilight of the Dead by Travis Adkins

Twilight of the Dead

Travis Adkins

 

Twilight of the Dead takes five years after the initial outbreak of the zombie plague, and it is told through the view of a young woman named Courtney. Courtney is a sad person who is depressed at the loss of her father and the fact that her life has been ruined by the dead corpses that have now taken over the world, and this is what makes Courtney such an interesting character. Unlike the big, bad guy heros of the zombie genre, Courtney is the center point of Twilight of the Dead , and this helps make the novel different from any ordinary novel. The plot is interesting, the way he tells the story is unique, and the design of the book (which he did by himself!) is especially interesting and makes the interior of the book aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

The novel begins with Courtney reminiscing about her past life before the zombie plague, right after one of her fellow Black Berets, Leon, talks to her and says that she needs to come out of the shell that she is and be an actual missing. It then follows with a flashback of what happened with Courtney before and while the plague is happening, and how she is trained by a Black Beret operative to be what she truly is.

The novel gets even more interesting when a strange scientist called Dr. Dane appears at the fortress town of Eastpoint, where he claims that he has found a cure to the plague that has been threatening humanity for years. He tells Courtney and Eastpoint’s council that he spent several years working for a cure, and now that he has one, he wants the Black Berets to go retrieve it.

This is where the story kicks into high action, with zombies, great plot twists, and new things that have been cleverly introduced to the genre.

This second edition of Twilight of the Dead offers a bonus of three short stories targeting specific characters that help to build on to the world about what happened before the original storyline, and it is a great boost to the novel.

Twilight of the Dead is a novel that any zombie fan should pick up. Never again will you think of a zombie novel as, Over the river and through the woods. Adkins offers too much to the genre to make it seem like an ordinary zombie novel.

Plague of the Dead by Z.A Recht

Plague of the Dead

Z.A Recht

Plague of the Dead takes another twist with the zombie genre, showing that the zombies can and cannot be dead at the same time. Z.A Recht, author of the new zombie novel Plague of the Dead brings a new twist to the genre.

Beginning with a strange–if not disturbing–email from a scientist in the army, it tells of the inevitable danger that the new and strange plague may bring. While the scientist tries to warn people about it, it doesn’t do any good, and that means that people are vulnerable. It hits our home of the United States when a medical examiner turns his back for just one moment.Africa is the center of the action, and if where the plague originated. Fires sprung up from every town, and the dead were attacking and devouring the living . . . And the ones that they killed also got back up to eat the flesh of the living men. The military tries their best to deal with it, but when they find that they can’t do anything other than separate Africa from the Israel area, they have to flee. This is where the military steps in to take action.

Recht brings many new things to the genre, especially the exciting way the military works. With scattered traces of emails and government conspiracies hidden in its depths, Plague of the Dead is a different, if not new way of the zombie genre. The main characters are real in the sense of the military, we learn how the military could operate if such an event were to happen, and we learn several different aspects of the military that most people don’t know. Recht shares the knowledge of weapons and military strategy in this book, and he does a very, very good job doing this.

Plague of the Dead brings us into a different view of the zombies, with the way that they can be alive at first, then die and come back to life as true zombies. Sprinters and Shamblers are they way Recht describes the zombies, and makes them even more terrifying. One bite infects, two bites doubles the rate, and from there, it goes downhill when the zombie plague hits Africa and spreads into the United States.

Plague of the Dead is another novel that must be picked up if you are a fan of horror and zombie fiction. It’s hard to put down, it’s exciting, and it leaves you wanting with more of this new way of zombies