reviews by William D. Gagliani


Literature Fantastique
(in alphabetical order by author's last name)

Kevin J. Anderson's Resurrection, Inc. (June 2001)
Michael A. Arnzen's Audiovile (July 2007)
Michael A. Arnzen's Freakcidents (June 2003)
Michael A. Arnzen's Play Dead (April 2006)
William Ashbless' On Pirates (December 2001)
George Axelrod's Blackmailer (July 2007)
Trey Barker's Where the Southern Cross the Dog; The Green River Stories (May 2002)
Trey R. Barker's Veil of the Soul (June 2002)
Raymond Benson's Sweetie's Diamonds (April 2006)
Elaine Bergstrom's The Door Through Washington Square (December 2002)
Elaine Bergstrom's Nocturne (December 2003)
James P. Blaylock's Home Before Dark (September 2001)
James P. Blaylock's The Rainy Season (August 1999)
James P. Blaylock's Winter Tides (June 2002)
James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers' The Devils in the Details (March 2004)
Jay Bonansinga's Bloodhound (November 1999)
Jay Bonansinga's Oblivion (July 2005)
Jay Bonansinga's Sleep Police (May 2001)
Bonansinga/Breedlove/Everson/Mundt's Candy in the Dumpster (September 2006)
Paul Bradshaw's Alternate Lives (June 2001)
Gary A. Braunbeck's In Silent Graves (July 2004)
Gary A. Braunbeck's Keepers (November 2005)
Gary A. Braunbeck's Things Left Behind (May 2002)
Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (July 2007)
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (February 2005)
Edward Bryant's A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned (August 2001)
Edward Bryant's While She Was Out (December 2001)
Kealan Patrick Burke's The Turtle Boy (January 2005)
P.D. Cacek's In the Spirit (July 2002)
Ramsey Campbell's Ghosts and Grisly Things (November 2002)
Ramsey Campbell's Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death (November 2002)
Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble (September 2007)
Richard Chizmar's Shivers (April 2003)
Douglas Clegg's Dark of the Eye (December 2001)
Douglas Clegg's The Hour Before Dark (August 2002)
Douglas Clegg's The Nightmare Chronicles (November 1999)
Douglas Clegg's Purity (May 2001)
Charles de Lint's Trader (March 2002)
Sandy DeLuca & Trey R. Barker's Crime Spree (November 2001)
Bradley Denton's One Day Closer To Death (April 2002)
Robert Devereaux's Santa Steps Out (January 2001)
Dawn Dunn's Pink Marble & Never Say Die (December 2001)
Steve Eller's Brainbox, The Real Horror (December 2000)
Steve Eller's Brainbox 2 (March 2002)
Dennis Etchison's Museum of Horrors (February 2002)
John Everson's Failure (March 2006)
Barbara J. Ferrenz's Worse Than Death (December 2003)
Dorsey Fiske's Raptor (March 2001)
Fran Friel's Mama's Boy (February 2007)
Polly Frost's Deep Inside: Extreme Erotic Fantasies (March 2009)
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (August 2002)
Ray Garton's Live Girls (September 2006)
W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's Dark Inheritance (May 2001)
Owl Goingback's Darker Than Night (July 2000)
J. F. Gonzalez's Fetish (June 2006)
J. F. Gonzalez's Survivor (August 2004)
J. F. Gonzalez's Shapeshifter (May 2001)
Ed Gorman's Shadow Games (November 1999)
Charles Grant's Black Oak: Hunting Ground and Black Oak: When the Cold Wind Blows (April 2001)
Charles Grant's Black Oak: The Hush of Dark Wings and Black Oak: Winter Knight (April 2001)
Charles Grant's Symphony (September 2002)
Lois Gresh & Robert Weinberg's The Termination Node (August 1999)
James Grippando's Under Cover of Darkness (May 2001)
Andrew Harper's (Douglas Clegg's) Bad Karma (July 2002)
Victor Heck's The Asylum (November 1999)
Jack Higgins' Hell Is Always Today (September 2005)
Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box (April 2007)
Brian Hodge's Wild Horses (August 2000)
Brian Hodge's World of Hurt (October 2006)
Nini Kiriki Hoffman's A Red Heart of Memories (July 2000)
Brian A. Hopkins's El Dia de los Muertos (November 2002)
Brian A. Hopkins's Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club (December 2000)
Brian A. Hopkins's Tell Me a Story: The Saga of the Turtle Knight (May 2003)
Brian A. Hopkins and Garrett Peck's Personal Demons (August 2001)
Gerard Houarner and Gak's Dead Cats Bouncing (May 2003)
Tina L. Jens's The Blues Ain't Nothin' (March 2003)
Nate Kenyon's Bloodstone (February 2006)
Jack Ketchum's Broken On the Wheel of Sex (April 2002)
Jack Ketchum's Ladies Night (January 2001)
Jack Ketchum's The Lost (July 2001)
Jack Ketchum's Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition (June 2001)
Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee's Sleep Disorder (October 2003)
Greg Kihn's Mojo Hand (July 2000)
Jack Kilborn's Afraid (May 2009)
Stephen King's Hearts In Atlantis (August 2000)
J. A. Konrath's Dirty Martini (November 2007)
Michael Laimo's Atmosphere (December 2002)
Michael Laimo's Dead Souls (July 2007)
Michael Laimo's Deep In the Darkness (June 2004)
Michael Laimo's The Demonologist (December 2005)
Joe R. Lansdale's The Magic Wagon (May 2002)
Joe R. Lansdale's Rumble Tumble (July 2000)
Richard Laymon's Bite (August 1999)
Richard Laymon's One Rainy Night (March 2001)
Tim Lebbon's Dead Man's Hand (August 2004)
Edward Lee's City Infernal (November 2001)
Steve Lockley's & Paul Lewis' The Ice Maiden (April 2005)
James Lowder's & Veronica Whitney-Robinson's Spectre of the Black Rose (August 1999)
Jonathan Maberry's Ghost Road Blues (November 2006)
James Macdonald's The Apocalypse Door (March 2003)
Louis Maistros' The Big Punch (April 2001)
Louis Maistros' The Sound of Building Coffins (December 2009)
Ronald Damien Malfi's The Fall of Never (January 2006)
Lisa Mannetti's The Gentling Box (April 2009)
Lee Martindale's The Folly of Assumption (August 2001)
Richard Matheson's Hunted Past Reason (September 2002)
LH Maynard and MPN Sims's Double Act (September 2007)
William Meikle's The Midnight Eye Files: The Amulet (January 2007)
William Meikle's Millennium Macabre (June 2001)
David Morrell's Creepers (October 2005)
David Morrell's Double Image (November 1999)
David Morrell's Scavenger (September 2007)
Walter Mosley's Greatest and Whispers In the Dark (May 2001)
Open Graves: An Anthology from the Midwestern Writers of Horror (March 2005)
Adam Pepper's Memoria (March 2004)
Stefan Petrucha's Dark Ages: Assamite (September 2003)
Stefan Petrucha's Kolchak: The Night Stalker—The Devil in the Details (July 2003)
Stefan Petrucha's Timetripper, Book One: Yestermorrow (July 2006)
Tom Piccirilli's and Gerard Houarner's Bastards of Alchemy (February 2003)
Tom Piccirilli's Fuckin' Lie Down Already (December 2003)
Tom Piccirilli's Hexes (August 1999)
Tom Piccirilli's A Lower Deep (March 2002)
Tom Piccirilli's Midnight Premiere (May 2007)
Tom Piccirilli's November Mourns (October 2005)
Tom Piccirilli's Welcome To Hell (December 2000)
Brian Pinkerton's Abducted (August 2004)
Edgar Allan Poe's Dark Dreams (February 2003)
Tim Powers's Declare(December 2000)
Tim Powers's Earthquake Weather (November 1999)
Tim Powers's Three Days to Never (December 2006)
Ken Rand's Tales of the Lucky Nickel Saloon, Second Ave., Laramie, Wyoming, US of A (April 2003)
Jay Russell's Brown Harvest (January 2002)
Lawrence Santoro's Just North of Nowhere (April 2009)
Steve Savile's Houdini's Last Illusion (May 2005)
David J. Schow's Bullets of Rain (February 2004)
Harry Shannon's Eye of the Burning Man (April 2006)
Harry Shannon's Memorial Day (June 2004)
Harry Shannon's Night of the Werewolf (January 2004)
T. K. Sheils' Butterfly House (May 2001)
Lucius Shepard's Floater and Louisiana Breakdown(May 2004)
David B. Silva's Sudden in a Shaft of Shadow, Volume 1 (June 2001)
Bradley H. Sinor's In the Shadows (October 2002)
Michael Slade's Bed of Nails (June 2003)
Michael Slade's Swastika (January 2006)
Beecher Smith's The Guardian (July 2000)
Lucy A. Snyder's Sparks and Shadows (September 2007)
S. P. Somtow's Darker Angels (July 2000)
Darren Speegle's A Dirge for the Temporal (June 2005)
Robin Spriggs' Wondrous Strange (May 2001)
Nancy Springer's Prom Night (August 1999)
Richard Stark's Ask the Parrot and Lemons Never Lie (March 2007)
James Stevens-Arce's Soulsaver (September 2001)
Jeff Strand's Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) (November 2003)
Jeff Strand's Pressure (December 2006)
Peter Straub's lost boy, lost girl (January 2005)
Melanie Tem's Pioneer (August 2001)
Steve Rasnic Tem's Final Days of Sales (February 2002)
Tamara Thorne's Bad Things (April 2002)
Tamara Thorne's Candle Bay (September 2001)
Tamara Thorne's Haunted (October 1999)
Tamara Thorne's Moonfall and Eternity(December 2000)
Lavie Tidhar's An Occupation of Angels (March 2006)
John Urbancik's A Game of Colors (August 2001)
Edo van Belkom's Blood Road and Scream Queen (October 2004)
Tim Waggoner's Like Death (August 2005)
Tim Waggoner's Pandora Drive (July 2006)
Robert W. Walker's Blind Instinct (December 2000)
Robert W. Walker's City For Ransom (February 2006)
Robert W. Walker's Cold Edge (July 2001)
Robert W. Walker's Final Edge (July 2004)
Matthew Warner's Eyes Everywhere (August 2006)
Donald E. Westlake's 361 (September 2005)
F. Paul Wilson's All The Rage (March 2001)
F. Paul Wilson's Crisscross (June 2004)
F. Paul Wilson's Hosts (April 2001)
Craig Wolf's Trespass (August 2005)
Patrick Wood's Electric Dragon (September 2007)
Patrick Wood's Fireglass Machine (October 2007)
John Wooley's Awash in the Blood (June 2003)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's In the Face of Death (January 2002)