Review by Jamie Brownlie In the world of Roads Less Taken: The Plan the dead have risen and society has crumbled. While most of humanity stumbles around in a blind panic, a girl named Kasey has a plan for such a catastrophe: an isolated, well stocked home in the mountains of West Virginia. Of course, [...]

Review by Kayley Viteo If you’re at all involved in the horror genre, you know Kane Hodder. Most known for playing Jason Voorhees, he has also gone on to play masked villains Leatherface and Victor Crowley, but also notorious, unmasked killers Ed Gein and B.T.K. He is a legendary stuntman (which shouldn’t be news to [...]

Review By Kayley Viteo Dead Summit, written by Daniel Loubier, is a swift, surprising and entertaining read. Like always, as summer turns into fall, I find my tastes slightly changing. In the fall I like ghost stories that make you feel like the house is closing in around you and serial killer thrillers that make [...]

Book Review: Contagious (2008) Release Date: December 30, 2008 Publisher: Crown Written By: Scott Sigler Review By: Kayley Viteo I’m the first to admit that I’ve been woefully late to the Scott Sigler bandwagon. After first hearing his name banded about, it took me a full year to get around to reading “Infected,” which I reviewed for Brutal [...]

Book Review: Bottomfeeder (2007) Publisher: M Press Written By: Bob Fingerman Review By: Kayley Viteo Last year, I raved about a book called Pariah by Bob Fingerman (seriously, read it). It was an impulse purchase, and after being absolutely blown away by it, I picked up this one to continue what I felt could only [...]

Book Review: Pariah (2010) Release Date: August 3, 2010 Publisher: Tor Books Written By: Bob Fingerman Review By: Kayley Viteo Here’s the thing about Pariah: it’s a novel about zombies, but it really isn’t about them. It’s not even about the apocalypse that the humans of an Upper East Side walk-up find themselves living in. [...]

Book Review: 13 Bullets (2007) Release Date: May 22, 2007 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Written By: David Wellington Review By: Kayley Viteo David Wellington is a master of imagination. In his previous Monster trilogy the world is overrun by zombies (another greatly entertaining read, by the way), his second trilogy focuses on vampires in a [...]

Book Review: Handling the Undead (2010) Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist Thomas Dunne Books Release Date: September 28, 2010 Review by Marc Patterson For fans of horror fiction John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 novel Let The Right One In is a hard act to follow. It seems redundant to even need to say it, but he’s had [...]

Brains: A Zombie Memoir (2010) Book Release Date: May 25, 2010 Publisher: Eos Written By: Robin Becker Review By: Kayley Viteo In the wake of a zombie apocalypse, college professor Jack Barnes is bitten and turned into one of the mindless horde. Only, it turns out Mr. Barnes isn’t quite so mindless. Brains is his [...]

Feed (2010) Book Release Date: May 1, 2010 Publisher: Orbit Written By: Mira Grant Review By: Kayley Viteo Feed is one of those rare books that left me initially speechless because it is seriously that fucking good. Amazingly, it is Mira Grant’s first book. Better yet, Feed is the first in the Newsflesh trilogy, which [...]

Hater (2006) Book Release Date: July 17, 2006 Publisher: Infected Books Written By: David Moody Review By: Kayley Viteo It really is almost criminal how long it took me to get around to reading Hater. First, it was self-published online in 2006 and I could have read it for free. Second, I already was a [...]

The Descent (2001) Book Release Date: April 30, 2010 Publisher: Jove Written By: Jeff Long Review By: Kayley Viteo A general rule of thumb by which I can tell if I’m really into a book is how long it takes for me to read it. In the case of The Descent, I read it in [...]

Valley of the Dead (The Truth Behind Dante’s Inferno) (2010) Book Release Date: April 30, 2010 Publisher: Permuted Press Written By: Kim Paffenroth Review By: Kayley Viteo Let’s face it. Writing this book took some serious balls. Kim Paffenroth takes what is probably the most famous work of Italian literature to ever be written and [...]

Sharp Teeth (2008) Book Release Date: January 29, 2008 Publisher: Harper Written By: Toby Barlow Review By: Kayley Viteo Without a doubt, this is one of the – if not the most – inventive and creative werewolf novels that I have ever read. It is both a challenging and deeply seductive read, managing to evoke [...]

Under the Dome (2009) Publisher: Scribner Written By: Stephen King Review By: Kayley Viteo There are many things you can say about Stephen King and I would wager that many of them are good. I don’t think anyone can fault him as a story creator – how someone writes so many unique stories in such [...]

Book Review: Infected (2008) Release Date: April 1, 2008 Publisher: Crown Written By: Scott Sigler Review By: Kayley Viteo If there’s any genre of books that has absolutely exploded in recent years, it’s that of the zombie/infected/undead. The sheer volume of these types of books out there makes it increasingly difficult to differentiate yourself from [...]

The Mall of Cthulhu Book Release Date: June 19, 2009 240 Pages Written By: Seamus Cooper Review By: Annie Riordan   It’s been ten years since Laura Harker was rescued from a sorority house full of vampire girls by her geeky friend Teddy, who beheaded the bitches and set the place ablaze, dragging a stunned [...]