RAZORED ZEN

I'm a fan of Halloween, but not as big of a fan as K. A. Opperman. I'm not sure there is a bigger fan of All Hallows Eve than Opperm...

Spectros #1: Silverado, by Logan Winters. Tower Books, 1981. 159 pages. Logan Winters was one of several pseudonyms used by writer Paul Jose...

  A few days ago (on Tuesday, June 27 th ), I lost a friend—Alvin Burstein, who most people called “Al.” By the time I met Al, he was alrea...

Splatter Punks II Over the Edge: softcover, 416 pages. TOR 1995, edited by Paul M. Sammon. This book came out in 1995, toward the end of the...

Not my favorite Laymon. His works are always readable, although I can generally find what seem like flaws to me. This is a quick paced novel...

  Wyoming Thunder: A Larry & Streak Western, by Marshall McCoy, Bantam, 86 pages, 1968. So, Marshall McCoy is Marshall Grover is Leona...

  Swords & Heroes. Edited by Lyndon Perry. Tule Fog Press, 2023. 201 pages. Tule Fog Press is a relative newcomer in the publishing fiel...

Written by John Corabi, with Paul Miles. I imagine Miles did the heavy lifting with the prose and based it on Corabi's stories. Not comp...

#1: Donovan’s Devils: The Assassination is Set for July 4…”, by Lee Parker. 1974. Award Books. This is the first in a series that only went ...

With a title like Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (SSGR), you might assume this book is space opera. It’s not. It’s a parody of space o...

Violet Rising is the first in a new comic book series from the pen of Tony Petry. I’ve known Tony for a while on Facebook and we’ve carried ...

Alan E. Nourse was barely on my radar as a writer until fairly recently. I'd read one book by him, Raiders from the Rings, and liked it ...

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine, Volume 1, #0. Edited by Oliver Brackenbury, Cover by Gilead. This is issue 0 of a new sword & s...

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy, Volume 5. Edited by David A. Riley. 328 pages. Published by Parallel Universe Publications....

I've been remiss in blogging a few recent reviews I've done of poetry collections. Thought I'd put two of them together here for...

  Milking the Beast Within, Selected Poems By Ben Douglass. Atomic Mountain Press, LLC, Edited by Rowena White. 63 pages, 2021. Cover by Alb...

  Drowning are the Dead, Brent Towns. Rough Edges Press, 2022. 285 pages. This is an excellent mystery story wrapped in a very attractive pa...

SPACERS SNARLED IN THE HAIR OF COMETS : By Bruce Boston. Mind’s Eye Publications, 2022, 39 pages. (Introduction by Andrew Darlington). This ...

In 1972, my father—J. V. Gramlich—died on this date. Of a heart attack. I was 13. He was 58. He seemed old to me at the time but so much you...

T he Talisman , by Stephen King and Peter Straub. 646 pages. Viking. You know how when you’ve been constipated for three days and you fina...