What the heck, Skulduggery Pleasant?
I’m a big fan of Skulduggery Pleasant. After only two books in the series have been released (the last one in April of 2008), I’ve been anxiously awaiting the next tale of the skeleton detective and...
View ArticleA Skulduggerific Day!
So, back in February, I professed my love for Skulduggery Pleasant, the series of novels about the skeleton detective and his teenage sidekick, Valkyrie Cain. I also explained my frustration that the...
View ArticleAdvance Book Review: Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones
I know it may be a little odd to see a review of a children’s novel here on IoM. Still, when said children’s book involves a character slicing off his own arm with a scythe, people being turned inside...
View ArticleWolverine wants you to get your Free Comic Book (Day)
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 2nd.
View ArticleMice Have Swords on the Redwall, Too
Brian Jacques, a British born author went a different way. Showing propensity as a writer at the age of ten with a story even his teachers didn’t believe he could have written, he created a world set...
View ArticleZombie Novel Give-A-Way: The books of Kim Paffenroth
One of the finest, most horrific books I read last year was Professor Kim Paffenroth’s Dying to Live: Life Among the Undead. It was a wonderful experience reading that story, so I was excited to find...
View ArticleThe Strain is coming!
Our beloved Guillermo del Toro (he is pretty damn cool, isn’t he?) and author Chuck Hogan have put together a tale to keep us up at nights! It’s always pleasant to see del Toro get back to his horror...
View ArticleYour Morning Head: Holiday Weekend Haul
Of the many laudable aspects of the Memorial Day Weekend – time with friends and family, BBQ, swimming in the pool, beer – my absolute favorite is the Half Price Books 20% off sale. During the sale,...
View ArticleYour Morning Head: Trek books are delicious candy
It’s no secret, I loves me some Star Trek. The movies, the TV shows, and the comics? All of them I regard with deep affection. The novels though? I’m crazy for the novels. I’ve not read all of...
View ArticleGuillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan talk about THE STRAIN!
I’ve been talking about The Strain, the novel from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, for the past couple of weeks now. Reading it, I totally understand the hype. The book is scary, exciting, and a...
View ArticlePimp-of-the-Internet, Tony Mast: The IoM Interview, part 1
Tony Mast is a man who seems to be everywhere at once. He hosts two podcasts (Back Seat Producers and Tony’s Losing It). He’s contributed to and edited three short story anthologies, the most recent...
View ArticlePimp-of-the-Internet, Tony Mast: The IoM Interview, part 4
Today we wrap up our week-long interview with Pimp of the Internet Tony Mast. We talk about the new short story anthology The Storm Cloud which just recently went on sale as well as the upcoming...
View ArticlePauloween Horror Nights: OCTOBER SHADOWS
Reading this month’s issue of Rue Morgue, I came across an article about an upcoming book entitled October Shadows: A Celebration of Halloween in Art. Apparently, each Fall, there’s an art show...
View ArticleLittle Fuzzy for everyone!
More than 20 years before George Lucas started his long, downhill slide with Ewoks, H. Beam Piper gave us fuzzies or, by their appropriate scientific designation, Fuzzy fuzzy holloway zarathrustra....
View ArticlePHN 2009: Are you ready…for STAR WARS ZOMBIE WEEK?
Hell yes, you heard me right. This week on the official Star Wars website, to celebrate the release of this week’s book Death Troopers, they’re “kicking off a week’s worth of content showcasing some...
View ArticlePHN 2009: Screw it…win a copy of DEATH TROOPERS!
Since everyone seems super excited about this week’s Star Wars book release, DEATH TROOPERS, we decided to say “screw it,” and give away a free copy! Yes, folks, we know people wanna read this book,...
View ArticleDEATH TROOPERS contest winner AND Prequel announcement!
Death Troopers, the uber cool book that blends Star Wars with zombie fiction is now out in stores, and we recently gave you guys a chance to win it as part of our Pauloween Horror Nights month-long...
View ArticlePrep yourself for the DARK DAYS ahead with SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT!
Oh man, I’m so excited. I’ve been talking since the site started about my love for Skulduggery Pleasant (don’t believe me, check out all the stories here). Why do I love Skulduggery so much? Well,...
View ArticleSkullduggery Pleasant: Dark Days (Book Review)
I received my copy of Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days in the mail on Monday. Two days later, I’ve read the entire thing and am anxiously already awaiting book five (titled Mortal Coil, according to...
View ArticleReview: Mike Carey’s The Devil You Know
I’m not a fan of novels that flaunt their influences, particularly when I’m familiar with the influences in question. It’s like paying to see a new band and discovering only after the set begins that...
View ArticleA peek at SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT: MORTAL COIL
When was the last time you saw a children’s novel that had a cover like this? Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil is due out this September in jolly ol’ England. If you haven’t been reading this series,...
View ArticleFunnybooks with Aron and Paulie: Shadowland: Gregg Hurwitz
This new comic book day, we’ve got something a little different for you – an interview you have to read instead of listen to! Novelist/comic writer/awesome dude Gregg Hurwitz has been on the show...
View ArticleBook Review: THE STRAIN
When it was announced that popular horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro would be co-writing a novel, lots of fans were super excited about it. Though I don’t subscribe to the opinion that everything he...
View ArticlePHN 2010: Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil
The sixth entry in the Skulduggery Pleasant series has been released? What? A quick glance at Amazon shows that only the first three books have been released in the United States. You actually have...
View ArticleThe Klutz Book of Inventions and Flip UltraHD Give-a-way!
Necessity is the mother of invention. To increase productivity, mankind needed an efficient way to illuminate the night. So, Heinrich Goebel invented the light bulb and Thomas Edison, needing to be...
View ArticleBook Review: The Fall (Guillermo Del Toro/Chuck Hogan)
I’m a HUGE Guillermo Del Toro fan. He has, without a doubt, one of the most amazing visual minds of anyone working in media today. It’s no wonder that everyone wants to work with Del Toro, from...
View ArticleBlood Oath
I could think of no better way to tie up the theme of badassery than by telling you about the novel Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth. Let me start off by giving you the elevator pitch. Blood Oath...
View ArticleMortal Coils
There is an an app called Goodreads that I use to track books I have read, keep a list of books I would like to read, and keep up-to-date on the books and blogs of my favorite writers. My to-read list...
View ArticleOld Man’s War
After watching Prometheus, I decided I needed a dose of good science fiction. This was a problem for me as I have not kept up with the genre and had no clue where to begin. It was a face-palm moment...
View ArticleHedy’s Folly
Have you ever seen the British TV series Connections? It was a show that first aired in Brittain in 1978. It had it’s second season in 1994 and it’s final season in 1997. Seeing how it is a bit old,...
View ArticleThe Atrocity Archives
After my recent review of Casting Call of Cthulhu, I was pondering my reading within the Cthulhu mythos. I have read many of the stories by H P Lovecraft and several of those by the inheritors of his...
View ArticleMidnight Riot
I was watching my twitter feed the other day, as I am wont to do. I saw Charles Stross send out a tweet in regards to Ben Aaronovich. I did a bit of a head desk and realized that I had not picked up...
View ArticleThis Dark Earth
Zombies are big right now. I mean really big. The Walking Dead is a big hit for AMC and a season of this show isn’t even a full twenty-four episodes. In addition to the Walking Dead, There are video...
View ArticleThe Apocalypse Codex
My reading for the past few months has been somewhat sporadic. I’ve kept up with my comics and graphic novels but have had little time to dedicate to my passion for science fiction and fantasy. I have...
View ArticleMasks & Mobsters
I can always depend on the guys from Funnybooks to give me excellent advice on new comics to try. I was looking to diversify my reading habits and they recommended Masks and Mobsters by Joshua...
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