During the Golden Age of comics, partners Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created a legendary superhero who’s just as strong and popular today: Captain America. And they also worked on Blue Bolt. Hey, they can’t all be winners. There’s a reason we don’t remember Blue Bolt today: He ...

This Book and eBook Talk showcases Becoming Persephone by Dagmar Avery and is the fourth story that, with mine [Hephaestus Lays Down the Law], makes up anthology: Love's Immortal Pantheon Published by Tease Publishingisbn: 978-1607670254$12.99 Paperback is now available on Amazon, BN, Powell's, BAM ...

Those guys on the other side of the Atlantic are just as twisted as we are, as evidenced by the 21 stories in BRITISH INVASION, a Cemetery Dance horror anthology edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon and James A. Moore, all of whom know the territory well. The title of INVASION suggests a new or ...

Well, here’s something you don’t see every day, even in the world of melodramatic pulp magazine reprints: an Adventure House replica of a 1930s true-crime magazine. It’s called, coincidentally enough, TRUE CRIME MAGAZINE, from November 1936. Ah, 1936 — that was just one year after the deaths...

One need not be a fan of Asian cartoons — filmed or printed — to pick up SCHOOLGIRL MILKY CRISIS: ADVENTURES IN THE ANIME AND MANGA TRADE, but I think you’d be bored otherwise. For this eyebrow-raising-titled collection, journalist Jonathan Clements has rounded up nearly 20 years’ wo...

This Book and eBook Talk looks at Pluto's Offering by Selena Illyria and is the third installment of the other stories that are with mine [Hephaestus Lays Down the Law] in paperback: Love's Immortal Pantheon Published by Tease Publishingisbn: 978-1607670254$12.99 Paperback is now available on Amazon...

Those who grew up watching atomic-era monster movies on UHF — and really, isn’t that about all of us? — will find good vibes radiating from Permuted Press’ latest anthology, MONSTROUS: 20 TALES OF GIANT CREATURE TERROR, edited by Ryan C. Thomas. Reminiscent of DAIKAIJU!: GIANT MONSTE...

All hail Warlash! He’s the star of Asylum Press’ new future-cop comic WARLASH: DARK NOIR, two issues of which have been released thus far. He looks a little like Judge Dredd, albeit with a rather imposing scorpion tail on the back of his armored uniform. He also, as one would expect, kic...

Regular readers of this site don’t need another reminder of Richard Matheson’s greatness, but one’s certainly not going to kill you, either. THE TWILIGHT AND OTHER ZONES: THE DARK WORLDS OF RICHARD MATHESON is a tribute to one of fantastic fiction’s all-time greatest practiti...

Koren Shadmi is Israel’s answer to Charles Burns. His graphic stories in the collection IN THE FLESH link sex with death to an absolutely hypnotic effect, like Burns’ masterpiece BLACK HOLE. Although FLESH comes adorned with a cover that makes it look like a GRUDGE-style exercise in terr...