Horror

World’s Strongest Librarian is Three Years old Today. New Short Story, My Novel for $2.99, and More

It’s hard for me to believe, but this goofy little blog is three years old. Nearly every day for the last three years I’ve written here. This site has changed my life, but that was never the goal. I write because it’s fun, because it helps me figure out who I am, because it pays [...]

April 9, 2012 READ MORE →

Book Review: The Five by Robert McCammon

If you head on over to Amazon and take a look at reviews for Robert McCammon’s The Five, you’ll quickly see a refrain: First of all, I’m a big McCammon fan. I loved Swan Song. But– Welcome back. I hope you didn’t pay too much attention to all the fussing over there. I won’t add [...]

December 10, 2011 READ MORE →

Necroscope – Book Review by Logan Christopher

Note from Josh: Necroscope is the beginning of a pretty long series. If you like the first one that Logan reviews here, I predict that you will enjoy the others as well. I was at a wedding and ran into an old friend. My girlfriend asked about his tattoo of a zombie wolf on his [...]

August 6, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: The Beast Within

I was about 1/4 through Edward Levy’s The Beast Within when I realized I had already read it. But I couldn’t remember when. I’d guess that it was in Junior High or earlier. But it wasn’t the plot that reminded me–it was one simple line spoken by a wronged farmer. How wronged was he? says [...]

May 9, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: The Keep

I think I speak for just about everyone when I say “I love to see the Nazis getting theirs.” What’s better than seeing justified comeuppance for monsters? Especially if it is delivered by monsters, as is the case in Paul Wilson’s horror novel The Keep. It starts fast and picks up speed from there. An [...]

April 25, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: Lightning

I’ve had some good times with Dean Koontz’ books, and when I was reading them, Lightning was the only one I loved as much as Watchers. At the time I was also pretty interested in time travel, adventure stories with Nazis in them, and Getting The Girl. Lightning had them all in varying degrees. When [...]

April 21, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

After Survivor, Lullaby is my favorite Chuck Palahniuk book. In fact, no other book he has written since then has made me laugh and wince as much, or turn the pages as quickly. As with most of Chuck’s books, there are several story threads going on, but the best revolves around a journalist investigating a [...]

February 17, 2011 READ MORE →

Three Great Books With Freaky Circuses In Them

I can only think of two actual circuses that I’ve been to. One as a child, one as a 25 year old with my niece in tow. I don’t remember the first time and have few recollections of the second, although I do remember the tune that played every time the clowns came out. It [...]

February 2, 2011 READ MORE →

The Navidson Record – Circles Within Circles

When I was working at Barnes & Noble I came across a signed copy of House of Leaves (my review). My copy was signed with a big blue Z, for Zampano, the author of part of the book. House is way too intricate for me to go into in one post, and there are forums [...]

January 30, 2011 READ MORE →

Poll: Best Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories?

I know, it’s not Halloween and my October horror novel fest is still nine whole months away. But–I just started reading a quite-crazy horror book called The Pilo Family Circus and now I’m thinking about how little has changed in the horror genre over the last couple of centuries. Things are more explicit, sure, and [...]

January 26, 2011 READ MORE →