J.W. Donley

Category: Reading

  • Joe Reviews: Worship Me by Craig Stewart

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    First and up front I must let you know that I was provided a digital copy of Worship Me in exchange for a fair review.Now that we have that out of the way, let’s dig in!What did I think of it? Well, it was good. A fun read that I would recommend to my horror…

  • Joe Reviews: Come Closer by Sara Gran

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    Come Closer by Sara Gran – a book review It is time for my review of Come Closer by Sara Gran. Are you ready? Okay. Let’s go.This is another one that I only read due to an upcoming class I’m taking (like Bird Box). And it was a ton of fun. It’s not the sort…

  • My Primer for Modern Horror Fiction

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    All of the time the people say to me: ‘Joe. Your stories are crazy spooky. They’re the bees knees! What else should I check out? I need to know!’ And I always tell them: ‘Well, this and that. These and those. You should read more horror because romance blows.’ Or something like that. (P.S. I’m…

  • Joe Reviews: Bird Box by Josh Malerman

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    My Thoughts on Bird Box It is time for my review of Bird Box by Josh Malerman. To start things off, I need to let you all know that Bird Box took me a couple tries to get through. On my first attempt, I gave up only a few chapters in. It may have been…

  • Joe Reviews: Wounds

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    Okay. So, you need to read this. Please, if you are into horror you owe it to yourself to experience these stories. These collection sums up what is possible in the modern horror and weird fiction genres. This really among the best fiction I’ve ever read. I’ve not come across horror short fiction this engrossing…

  • Joe Reviews: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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    Shirley Jackson is a legend. Just like every other teenager in high school English, and well before I ever had serious aspirations for writing, I’d read her short story, The Lottery. At the time I didn’t thing much of it. It was just another thing I had to read for class, and I made it…

  • Joe Reviews: Hellboy – An Assortment of Horrors

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    I want to start this review by saying that I love reading Hellboy. I’m not a huge fan of super hero comics, but Hellboy gets a pass. I’ve been reading Hellboy on and off for about a decade and I’ve read most of the other spin off series as well.But enough about the comics. Let’s…

  • Joe Reviews: My Best Friend’s Exorcism

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    I recently finished his next novel, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and it was a pile of nostalgic fun. I never did get around to reading Grady Hendrix’s other book, Horrorstor, and now I regret that a lot. 80s nostalgia is the ‘in thing’ at the moment, especially in horror. It has been going for a…

  • Joe Reviews: The Last Wish

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    It’s time for another book review!Recently I finished reading The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski. I don’t play many video games, but The Witcher books keeps coming up on lists of fantasy to read that is not in the vein of Tolkien and/or is from other cultures. (And if you didn’t know, there is a…

  • Joe Reviews: Doctor Star

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    Yep, another graphic novel. Now, I’m not a huge comic fan. I’ve never been into super hero comics, but there are a few titles that I absolutely love, and the Black Hammer series is one of them. Doctor Star is a story set in the same universe.I was a little disappointed that the story was…