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Zombie Bake-Off

A Cruel, Samey Attempt at Horror Comedy Author: Stephen Graham Jones What happens when a group of Pro-Wresters arrives early to their venue, only to crash a soccer-mom style baking event? You send them to the back room . . . where they unfortunately eat infected donuts and turn into the living dead. From here, all you need to do is accidentally lock everyone in the building, block the loading dock, and scream and run around a lot. Honestly, it’s a concept that could have been cute on the big screen. Think of my all-time favorites: Zombie Strippers and Sharknado. Sometimes [...]

Frances Carden2024-01-21T17:06:17-07:00January 21st, 2024|Tags: book review, Comedy, horror, read, reading|

Black Tide

It’s The End of the World as We Know It Author: KC Jones Beth is a car wreck of a person: all broken parts, sputtering starts, and failed journeys. Her mother is the one who came up with the analogy, and Beth knows that it fits; she is haunted by her failures, the broken friendships, the failed jobs, the lost opportunities, the hopelessness of it all. While house sitting for a rich family at a fancy beach town, she does it again. She reaches out to connect when she shouldn’t and finds herself drunk on champagne, in bed with the solitary [...]

Frances Carden2024-01-13T13:36:06-07:00January 13th, 2024|Tags: apocalypse, apocalyptic fiction, horror, read, reading|

Terror, The

A Dull Mishmash of Stories Author: Dan Simmons Two ships, stranded in the Arctic, locked in mountains of ice, hunted by an unknown foe. Sir John Franklin’s exploration, searching for the Northwest Passage, is a famous doomed voyager. The desultory black and white photos live on, as does the mystery of the men’s final days, dying one by one, attempting to walk across barren fields of ice. It’s a true story thrumming with pathos and paranoia, and the perfect subject for a fictionalized account. In Dan Simmon’s re-imagining, the doomed men of the two ships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, are [...]

Frances Carden2023-12-27T15:17:24-07:00December 27th, 2023|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|