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Heads

Evil '80s Science and Rebellious Disembodied Heads Author: David Osborn Over fifteen years ago now, I purchased a huge eBay mystery book lot that just keeps giving. What’s better than horror novels, you ask? Old horror novels, with ridiculous names, 80s style covers, and enough camp to keep a horror hound happy. That’s where David Osborn’s Heads comes into play. It was the next in the still astonishingly huge pile. The story follows an unethical, secret lab with hot doctors who like to experiment on supposed “volunteers.” Now, back in the 80s, the whole idea of cryogenics and head freezing and [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-20T11:10:17-07:00October 20th, 2025|Tags: 80s, book review, campy, horror, read, reading, science fiction|

Lure

Revenge of the Old Gods Author: Tim McGregor In the chapel of a lonesome fishing village, the bones of a monster hang over the beleaguered worshipers. In this place, the chapel is not popular, and the tithes that keep the priest and his children alive rarely come in. The villagers themselves are hardly doing better, eking out an existence at the behest of the tremulous waves. They think their luck has changed, however, when a luremaid (mermaid) appears offshore one day, and the men of the town decide to hunt, capture, and imprison the creature. And their luck does change . [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-18T11:24:45-07:00October 18th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, mermaid, read, reading|

Ghost Virus

Cute Clothes and Cannibal Curses Author: Graham Masterton A happy woman, on the verge of being married to her dream man, lies down and pours acid onto her own face until she dies. A teacher throws children out of the window to be impaled on the railings below. A woman guts and eats her husband, leaving his carved body in their bed. A young girl eats the family dog, then her parents. What is the connection in this sudden onslaught of sensationalistic violence in the formerly normal suburb of Tooting? DC Jerry Pardo and DS Jamila Patel are on the case, [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-08T10:17:37-07:00October 8th, 2025|Tags: book review, Ghost Virus, Graham Masterton, horror, read, reading|