Stone Certainty by Simon R. Green

February 03, 2025

The Holy Terrors are back in Simon R. Green’s second mystery to feature them, but I found Stone Certainty a little disappointing. There’s a line in the book that usually describes Green’s books, “Hip-deep in sudden death, with supernatural...

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

October 30, 2021

When discussing Ray Bradbury’s novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I told friends that the movie was better. There are only a few times I’ve said that about a book and movie, but I don’t think Bradbury would have been disappointed by that...

The House on Widows Hill by Simon R. Green

August 30, 2020

There’s just something about Simon R. Green’s Ishmael Jones mysteries that appeals to me. Green’s mysteries are as close to horror as I get. The House on Widows Hill, the ninth in the series, is a combination of mystery, aliens, murder, and the...

Cat Out of Hell by Lynne Truss

March 11, 2015

According to Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is what the Captain looks like. The Captain is a powerful cat that takes another cat, Roger, under his wing in Truss’ horror novel, Cat Out of Hell. If the British critics are right, this is...