Review: The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

The Dead-Tossed Waves Carrie Ryan March, 2010 The Dead-Tossed Waves is Carrie Ryan’s follow up to the lyrical and moving The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the first novel The Dead-Tossed Wavesis about growing up in post-apocalyptic community constantly threatened by the presence of zombies. The novel follows Gabry and young girl in the [...]

Review: Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry Simon and Schuster, 2010 At first glance it might be easy to peg Jonathan Maberry’s Rot & Ruin as just another zombie novel. However, doing so does this teen-centric title a huge disservice. Rot & Ruin for all its violence and actions manages to tell a fascinating and emotionally engaging [...]

Review: Handling the Undead by John Adjvide Lindqvist

Handling the Undead John Adjvide Lindqvist St. Martins, 2010ho So my Halloween horror reading is going slowly.  The Great Email Hacking of 2010 has caused my interactions with internet over the last few weeks to be a bit tentative at best not to mention that The Terror by Dan Simmons isn’t the most fast paced [...]

Review: Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne

Day by Day Armageddon J. L. Bourne Permuted Press, 2007 (now available through Pocket Books as of 2009, linked at left) Day by Day Armageddon was one of the earliest title released by Permuted Press, an independent publisher specializing in apocalyptic fiction (and especially zombie fiction), and was recently re-released as part of 5 book [...]

Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

The Forest of Hands and Teeth Carrie Ryan Delacorte, 2010 First Line: My mother used to tell me about the ocean. Carrie Ryan’s The Forest of Hands and Teeth is a post-apocalyptic bildungsroman…with zombies.  Mary is teen living in an a village surrounded by the titular forest.  The world as we know it is gone [...]

Review: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Boneshaker Cherie Priest Tor, 2009 My love for Ms. Priest’s work has been professed before so this review is hardly unbiased.  Indeed, Boneshaker is certainly one of the catalysts that sent me on brief dip into the steampunk pool.  It is also the only steampunk novel I read this month that was set in America. [...]

Eden Log & Dance of the Dead

So I’ve got two interesting movies that you all might be interested in.  I’ll start with the first, and likely the more contentious, of the movies.  Eden Log seems to be french film director Franck Vestiel’s feature film debut and was released on DVD in the States under Magnolia/Magnet’s 6-Shooter Film Series.  It isn’t the [...]