Though pompous with its modern advancements, Sybar City has always fostered a seedy underbelly stretching back millennia. Glory, a humble scholar with a talent for occult research, is unwillingly thrust into this world of ancient malevolent races and scientific exploitation. A girl with issues, she would just as soon crawl into a bookshelf and never come back out, leaving a . . .
Welcome to the world of master fabulist Edward Morris, where History has been pulled down a Hieronymus Bosch rabbit-hole and everything makes far too much sense. In Morris’s alternate history tour de force, on an East Coast two centuries after Armageddon, a rogue soldier throws himself back in Time to wreak havoc upon History and feed on the blood in . . .
A man wakes up inside a coffin with no knowledge of how he got there or who he is. After freeing himself, he finds a note in his pants directing him to “Avoid the sunlight! Don’t touch anybody!” Afraid, hurt, and alone, he starts a journey to discover the truth about himself. But some things are better left unknown. . . .
Detroit has a hero, someone to stand against the forces of darkness, and resist the rising tide of horror and bloodshed. This isn’t his story. Alice Frye is an Artificer living in Highland Park, and she’s perfectly happy running her curio shop full of gewgaws and magical artifacts while her zombified late husband handles the cleaning and grocery shopping. . . .
Isobel Talbot’s life was a monotony, even her heartbreaks were predictable; but a chance encounter leaves her running for her life from the most terrible and impossible things. And worse yet, she’s fallen in love. . . .
Demons and Deadlines is a horrific journey through Hell for the story of a lifetime. It goes beyond spine tingling and beyond gore to bring you a tale of what still lurks in the back of your dreams. . . .
Jonathan Baron’s music has left him and so has the love of his life, a woman he’s no longer certain even really exists. Convinced that his buried childhood memories are the key to determining whether or not she was merely a figment of his imagination, he seeks out his family’s ancestral home. From the moment he sets foot unto . . .
A horror novel invoking a new mythos for the vampire legend which begins in modern day Egypt and then skips over to the United States. Two unsuspecting college age boys become engulfed in something greater than their lives, than their world, and even their reality. Accidentally entangling others in their lives while running from monsters (human and otherwise), they find . . .
Glory has an interest in magic; in fact more than an interest, she’s made a study of it and developed some ideas and spells of her own. She’s also made a big mistake in writing her knowledge down in a book and now the book is in the hands of her worst enemy. Glory is homeless, friendless and in danger.
A solid premise, but lacks depth . . .
This review is based on 5 chapters, of which 7 are available. Before I begin, I want to stress that I DO like the premise of Tattoo, and the episodes are interesting once each problem is fleshed out and the action begins. [more . . .]