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100 Jolts, by Michael A. Arnzen

Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating:  Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? [ratings] There may not be a more appropriately named book to come out this year – – or any other, for that matter — than Michael Arnzen’s 100 JOLTS. It consists of, you guessed it, a hundred stories, the vast majority of which are of the flash fiction…

EDEN, by Ken Wisman

Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Authorhouse Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating:  Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? [ratings] I was quite eager to read Ken Wisman’s EDEN. After all, it’s not every day you come across a novel inspired by the author’s experiences while under the influence of a hallucinogenic substance. What sort of work would this be? Would it in any way resemble…

Cold House, by T. M. Wright

Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Catalyst Press Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating:  Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? [ratings] Here’s how Jack Ketchum begins his intro to T. M. Wright’s Cold House: “A woman and her dog, alone in an old, Cold House with many rooms, fearful of the even colder world outside. A man searching through a city he cannot even name. They are lovers.” That’s…

Fantasy Life, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating:  Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? [ratings] Fantasy Life begins with a young girl named Emily Buckingham setting out to visit her father. Now, Emily’s parents are recently divorced and she has not seen her daddy in some time even though he does not live very far away, close enough for a girl on a bike…

Crisscross, by F. Paul Wilson

Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Gauntlet Press Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating:  Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? [ratings] Repairman Jack is back in his eighth novel, this one entitled Crisscross, depicting his ongoing battle against the forces of the Otherness – – the great, cosmic power apparently bent on the destruction of life on Earth as we know it. (The previous seven…

Kissing Carrion, by Gemma Files

Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Prime Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating:  Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? [ratings] Let me open this review by saying that if you have a problem with first person narrative then you are probably not going to like Gemma Files’s new collection, Kissing Carrion, as most of the stories presented within are told from this point of view. If, however,…

Judgment, by Wade Hunter

Genre: Horror Publisher: Publish America Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating:  Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? [ratings] Wade Hunter’s Judgment follows the story threads of four main characters. First, there is Sam Yeager, a middle aged ex-cop forced into retirement after a horribly tragic run-in with a particularly vicious serial killer known as the Ripper. The confrontation…

Jennifer Government, by Max Barry

Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Doubleday Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating:  Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? [ratings] “ Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever.” Or so the book’s back cover claims. Whether this is true or not is really beside the point. What is the point is how such a statement would surely make someone want to purchase the book and read it.…