Puppet Graveyard by Tim Curran (DarkFuse)
Five months after her sister Gloria disappeared, Kitty Seevers receives a lock of Gloria’s hair in the mail. No return address. Just a cryptic message that brings Kitty to the Bamboo Lounge and into the twisted realm of ventriloquist Ronny McBane and his dummy, Piggy.
Kitty descends into a haunted place where reality is frayed, where the puppetmaster and puppet seem to have reversed roles—-a nightmare place where a dummy moves and speaks when his master is nowhere near him.
Kitty suspects not only is there something wrong with McBane and his dummy, but a greater evil is at work as those named by the dummy are dying horrible deaths. And now she has been named by the same soul-eater that destroyed her sister.
It seems that Mr. Curran knows exactly what scares me. His previous book “Underdwelling” was a claustrophobic nightmare for me.
Five months after her sister Gloria disappeared, Kitty Seevers receives a lock of Gloria’s hair in the mail. No return address. Just a cryptic message that brings Kitty to the Bamboo Lounge and into the twisted realm of ventriloquist Ronny McBane and his dummy, Piggy.
Kitty descends into a haunted place where reality is frayed, where the puppetmaster and puppet seem to have reversed roles—-a nightmare place where a dummy moves and speaks when his master is nowhere near him.
Kitty suspects not only is there something wrong with McBane and his dummy, but a greater evil is at work as those named by the dummy are dying horrible deaths. And now she has been named by the same soul-eater that destroyed her sister.
It seems that Mr. Curran knows exactly what scares me. His previous book “Underdwelling” was a claustrophobic nightmare for me.
- 7/23/2012
- by Peter Schwotzer
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The Underdwelling by Tim Curran
(DarkFuse)
With a kid on the way, Boyd needed the job bad. But the idea of going underground at the Hobart Mine, down into the dark labyrinth of tunnels to get at the raw ore, left him with a brooding sense of unease. Maybe it was the fact that his father had died down in the mines or maybe it was something much worse.
Digging a new drift down in Level #8, the lowest level of the mine, an immense shaft opens up. Boyd and a few others volunteer to explore it. Some 400 feet down, they find a passage that leads to an immense cavern from prehistory.
A petrified world.
A prehistoric graveyard.
Then a cave-in traps them down there. In the darkness and dank shadows of a fossilized world, they realize they are not alone.
Something has woken in the stone.
Something ancient and terrible and coldly intelligent.
(DarkFuse)
With a kid on the way, Boyd needed the job bad. But the idea of going underground at the Hobart Mine, down into the dark labyrinth of tunnels to get at the raw ore, left him with a brooding sense of unease. Maybe it was the fact that his father had died down in the mines or maybe it was something much worse.
Digging a new drift down in Level #8, the lowest level of the mine, an immense shaft opens up. Boyd and a few others volunteer to explore it. Some 400 feet down, they find a passage that leads to an immense cavern from prehistory.
A petrified world.
A prehistoric graveyard.
Then a cave-in traps them down there. In the darkness and dank shadows of a fossilized world, they realize they are not alone.
Something has woken in the stone.
Something ancient and terrible and coldly intelligent.
- 5/16/2012
- by Peter Schwotzer
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
It's that time of year again when the weather is horrifically hot and the sun is just too damn bright for us horror fans. Time to curl up with a good book in the darkness of your home and crank up the AC. With that in mind, here is a hopefully helpful list of "Summer Reading to Chill Your Bones".
This is definitely not a complete catalogue, and I would love to hear from folks who have their own recommendations so please feel free to add your comments below.
And away we go...
1) The Passage by Justin Cronin. This is turning into The book to read this summer, and for good reason. It is one part Stephen King's The Stand combined with Robert McCammon's Swan Song and a soupcon of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The first part of a trilogy with the movie rights already purchased by Ridley Scott,...
This is definitely not a complete catalogue, and I would love to hear from folks who have their own recommendations so please feel free to add your comments below.
And away we go...
1) The Passage by Justin Cronin. This is turning into The book to read this summer, and for good reason. It is one part Stephen King's The Stand combined with Robert McCammon's Swan Song and a soupcon of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The first part of a trilogy with the movie rights already purchased by Ridley Scott,...
- 6/24/2010
- by thebellefromhell
- DreadCentral.com
Most casual readers may be familiar with the terrific World War Z, but there's a wealth of zombie horror fiction out there waiting to take readers further into the zombie world. One such author is Tim Curran, whose recent novel Resurrection, released last October, fuses together genetics, zombies, and rain.
In a recent interview, Curran discussed how he devised the plot of Resurrection.
I read somewhere about a mudslide in California. It washed out a cemetery and the coffins and corpses, skeletons and tombstones ended up in the town itself. Coffins came crashing through picture windows. Cadavers were deposited on porches and in trees, tombstones ended up in front yards. Some woman suffered a fatal heart attack when a casket came through her window and the occupant was thrown pretty much into her lap. I got that feeling I get when I read the account that there was something here worth exploring.
In a recent interview, Curran discussed how he devised the plot of Resurrection.
I read somewhere about a mudslide in California. It washed out a cemetery and the coffins and corpses, skeletons and tombstones ended up in the town itself. Coffins came crashing through picture windows. Cadavers were deposited on porches and in trees, tombstones ended up in front yards. Some woman suffered a fatal heart attack when a casket came through her window and the occupant was thrown pretty much into her lap. I got that feeling I get when I read the account that there was something here worth exploring.
- 1/15/2010
- HugAZombie
After reading Tim Curran's Resurrection, I simply had to interview him. I Really loved his book, even at 666 pages (yep, you read that right – 666). Curran is a wonderful storyteller who really should be unleashed upon the general horror reading public sooner rather than later.
Read on for an in-depth look into the beautifully twisted mind of Tim Curran.
El: First off, Wow!! You put everything And the kitchen sink into Resurrection (review here). Best zombie novel I've read in quite a while! How did the book come into being?
Tc: I read somewhere about a mudslide in California. It washed out a cemetery and the coffins and corpses, skeletons and tombstones ended up in the town itself. Coffins came crashing through picture windows. Cadavers were deposited on porches and in trees, tombstones ended up in front yards. Some woman suffered a fatal heart attack when a casket came through...
Read on for an in-depth look into the beautifully twisted mind of Tim Curran.
El: First off, Wow!! You put everything And the kitchen sink into Resurrection (review here). Best zombie novel I've read in quite a while! How did the book come into being?
Tc: I read somewhere about a mudslide in California. It washed out a cemetery and the coffins and corpses, skeletons and tombstones ended up in the town itself. Coffins came crashing through picture windows. Cadavers were deposited on porches and in trees, tombstones ended up in front yards. Some woman suffered a fatal heart attack when a casket came through...
- 1/13/2010
- by thebellefromhell
- DreadCentral.com
Dead Bait is an entertaining horror anthology covering gruesome tales about fishing and fishes. A variety of writers have composed 19 short stories which will either grab you by surprise or make you shudder at the end.
I actually didn’t think much of this anthology at first. How many times can you honestly tell a story about fish gone bad? The first story actually proved me quite wrong. “Fox Goes Fission” by Ron Lemming is a solemn tale about a lonely widower fishing for his wife’s soul at a mystical lake. Male readers will definitely squirm because of a few narratives, especially with Mark Zirbel’s “Something Fishy Going On.” This disturbing tale builds nail-biting tension when a husband is about to discover what’s physically wrong with his wife.
The collection carries out a major theme about protecting the environment. I felt “The Hanged Man” by Bosley Gravel delivered the message most effectively.
I actually didn’t think much of this anthology at first. How many times can you honestly tell a story about fish gone bad? The first story actually proved me quite wrong. “Fox Goes Fission” by Ron Lemming is a solemn tale about a lonely widower fishing for his wife’s soul at a mystical lake. Male readers will definitely squirm because of a few narratives, especially with Mark Zirbel’s “Something Fishy Going On.” This disturbing tale builds nail-biting tension when a husband is about to discover what’s physically wrong with his wife.
The collection carries out a major theme about protecting the environment. I felt “The Hanged Man” by Bosley Gravel delivered the message most effectively.
- 12/21/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Jorge Solis)
- Fangoria
Skin Medicine. The name evokes many memories – sewing together dead skin, scalpel cutting through epidermal tissue, episiotomy needle (pretty much a large fish hook) piercing women’s perinea. And, the cover art of my print (a disemboweled corpse having her face torn off) brought back fond memories. “What,” you ask? Is the reviewer a serial killer? Please, I will answer any and all questions - meet me in a bar, let’s have a few drinks, and discuss it out in the back alley. I promise that I have many more tales of truthful insanity with which to regale you.
Okay. Tim Curran has written a horror-western. Now….. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Let’s start with the Bad: The opening of the book – I found it to be quite pretentious. Almost like reading hifalutin poetry that is trying to be too clever for its own good. If...
Okay. Tim Curran has written a horror-western. Now….. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Let’s start with the Bad: The opening of the book – I found it to be quite pretentious. Almost like reading hifalutin poetry that is trying to be too clever for its own good. If...
- 12/17/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Robert Stock)
- Fangoria
Horror fans love this time of the year. For those of us not living in La, there's the chill in the air, the colorful leaves, pumpkins everywhere, dead cornfields to explore … if you dare. So, in honor of Our official holiday, I have come up with a list of books and some movies every horror fan should at least take a look at, if not outright add to your book or DVD library.
Without further ado (and in no particular order):
Creepy Places to Visit:
Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend’s Travel Guide by Leon Marcelo, Santa Monica Press, 380 pages
I Love this book!! Leon Marcelo travels the world, literally, to find places of horror both real and fictional. Rome to visit the Dario Argento Profondo Rosso Shop then to George Romero’s Pennsylvania and H.P. Lovecraft’s New England. Marcelo also covers Stephen King country, Poe’s Baltimore,...
Without further ado (and in no particular order):
Creepy Places to Visit:
Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend’s Travel Guide by Leon Marcelo, Santa Monica Press, 380 pages
I Love this book!! Leon Marcelo travels the world, literally, to find places of horror both real and fictional. Rome to visit the Dario Argento Profondo Rosso Shop then to George Romero’s Pennsylvania and H.P. Lovecraft’s New England. Marcelo also covers Stephen King country, Poe’s Baltimore,...
- 10/18/2009
- by thebellefromhell
- DreadCentral.com
Imagine being free. Free from everything that defines you, that makes you easily recognizable as who you are. Inside you'll find Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers alongside a knight of the Round Table. The stock market will crash in a whole new, terrifying way. You'll follow along as heroes go head-to-head with eldritch horrors from Lovecraft's universe. From Greek legends to Captain Nemo, from gangsters to brokers; from prisons to palaces, dead moons to South American jungles... No one is safe; nowhere is safe. This is a Mythos collection unlike any other. This is Lovecraft in many colors, many guises. This is Cthulhu-Unbound!
Featuring:
"The Tenants of Ladywell Manor" by Willie Meikle "Tomb on a Dead Moon" by Tim Curran "Passing Down" by Inez Schaechterle "The Hunters Within the Corners" by Douglas P. Wojtowicz "Surely You Joust" by Patrick Thomas "References in Cthonic, Eldritch, Roiling Creations are Recondite" by...
Featuring:
"The Tenants of Ladywell Manor" by Willie Meikle "Tomb on a Dead Moon" by Tim Curran "Passing Down" by Inez Schaechterle "The Hunters Within the Corners" by Douglas P. Wojtowicz "Surely You Joust" by Patrick Thomas "References in Cthonic, Eldritch, Roiling Creations are Recondite" by...
- 8/15/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (FANGORIA.com)
- Fangoria
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