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Upcoming Books for Halloween! (opens the original)
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Just a quick announcement that we’re very excited to announce that after a pretty quiet year on the publishing front, we have TWO upcoming volumes this September and October.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1084" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fet
Citizen Vigilante - Review (opens the original)
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There’s a phenomenon I call “The Skrewdriver 3.” For those who don’t know, in the 80’s through the early 90’s, Skrewdriver was THE neo-Nazi rock band. “The Skrewdriver 3” is a reference to how Skrewdriver’s albums are rated on album-rating sites. Unless the ratings have been brigaded, these albums usually sit at an average rating of around 3 out of 5 stars. Not because most people who rated the album thought it was average though. If you look at the actual ratings, they’ll mostly be from people
Ghosts of Fear Street 7: Fright Knight - Review (opens the original)
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There’s no shortage of bad books in middle-grade horror. This is inevitable, considering how huge the genre is and how quickly books were cranked out in the 90’s. Oddly enough, this kind of works in the genre’s favor. A lot of people enjoy entertainingly bad books almost as much as they enjoy actually good books.Fright Knight is the 7th book in the Ghosts of Fear Street series. I had read 13 books by the time I got to this one, and it was starting to feel like a bit of a chore to push through th
The Assassination of Richard Bachman by the Coward Stephen King (opens the original)
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I’m at the age where hypocrisy doesn’t surprise me. Blatant examples of it do disappoint and annoy me, however. One of the most extreme and prominent examples of hypocrisy in our day is “read banned books.”For most of history, the concern about banned books and censorship was about thought control. About preventing certain ideas and stories from disseminating to the public. Thanks for reading Phantom’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support
Violent Ends - Book Review (opens the original)
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Way back when I still made youtube videos, I reviewed the indie horror book A Hot Dose of Hell by Steve Stark. I was pretty impressed with how well-written and polished it was.Just recently, I finished his 2nd book, Violent Ends. A third book, Nice Bloody Work, is coming out soon.Thanks for reading Phantom’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subs
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