Recently retired, Steven Benedetti is driving from Oregon to LA. En route, he passes a sign for a carnival and, out of nostalgia, stops to visit. There he attempts to revisit several boyhood pleasures but discovers that time has colored...

The small town of Tower Hill, Maine is the site of a small university and a dark secret. Three students -- religious Liz, Detroit trailer park escapee Steve, and wild girl Angela -- have arrived at the campus to find...

When originally published in 1981, Richard Laymon's second novel appeared heavily altered from the author's original conception. In his memoir of the craft, the author commented that the novel would never be recoverable, due to the many rewrites and general...

Joe R. Lansdale is no stranger to the horror scene. Though his "big press" material does not often find its way to the horror fiction shelves these days (his small press stuff unashamedly does), there is a dark vein ("black...

Gary A. Braunbeck’s latest novel -- fourth in his Cedar Hill cycle from Leisure Books -- takes to task a rather challenging subject (no surprise from this author, who has made a career from fiction that asks difficult questions). The...

A man and woman are driving through the night. Billy Smith and Angel are anything but amorous; she is his handcuffed prisoner. He is haunted by nightmares. Their path has taken them from Salt Lake City to North Carolina by...

Simon Lester is a film minded fellow with some of the worst luck imaginable. When the magazine he writes for gets hit with libel suits, his career as a film writer takes a nose dive; he finds himself working at...

Something strange is happening around London, and while no one person has a real sense of the extent of these events, several individuals have inklings, clues to the larger picture. Bo Mulvey is a photographer who, as something of a...

The title of Rob Roger’s novel, Devil’s Cape, refers to a fictional city in Louisiana, a neighbor to New Orleans. Devil's Cape has earned its moniker of "Pirate Town" by a long history of crime, violence and corruption dating from...

A bank robbery goes terribly wrong. While the police mass outside, three crooks hole up inside a tattoo parlor: Juice is recently escaped from the pokey, a philosophical killer who abides by the old adage of Pavillion Nomme Sansquartier (roughly...