reviews

“Well, not ALL of the Marvels. But definitely some of them” Author: Douglas Wolk As a self-professed Marvel Zombie, obviously I’ve taken to the MCU movies in a big bad way. What I’ve loved most about them is the continuing story, the long arc, the emotional journey viewers are taken on, where a dropped line in the first Iron Man movie can become one of the many places I got choked up at in Endgame. I love the evolution. I started collecting Marvel Comics in late 1987, over 25 years after the official “start” of the Marvel 616 Universe—the standard [...]

A Very, Very Slow Alien Story Author: Dean Koontz Total strangers across the US are being seized by fervid nightmares and phobias. There is a man (and later a child) obsessed with moons, an author with a fit of terror-induced sleepwalking, a surgeon with fugues, a lonely motel owner increasingly terrified of the dark, a priest who has lost his faith and dreams of red moons, and many others. The connection? They were all itinerant travelers at a remote Nevada motel on the same night. Their terrors will slowly bring them together over a course of weeks as they try to [...]

Something in the Pipes, Something in the Walls Author: Jonathan Sims Thirteen strangers, one location, an invitation to die for. Banyan Court, the creation of billionaire Tobias Fell, is an elite building. Only the super rich can afford its luxury apartments . . . except the very back, the forced second part of hidden “affordable housing.” But never mind, those people in the back of the building aren’t allowed to mix with the affluent, aren’t seen in the luxury side or even addressed by the elite concierge. They are merely a hidden concession. Yet, oddly, some of them are invitees [...]