Garden Metamorphosis
“Between Life and Death There is Nature” A review by Joey Madia Smoky Zeidel has a way with words. This five-time Pushcart nominee is able to plumb the depths of human experience with a simplicity of...
View ArticleWeird Winged Wonders: The Twilight World of Cryptid Creatures
A review by Joey Madia Over the past few years, there have been dozens of documented sightings of flying humanoids over the city of Chicago, IL, reigniting interest among the general public in this...
View ArticleParting the Veil: How to Communicate with the Spirit World
A review by Joey Madia More people than ever before (at least in modern times) believe in the existence of ghosts. Popular polling organizations such as the Pew Research Center are reporting that as...
View ArticleThe Healing Journey: How a Poor Chinese Village Girl became an American Healer
A review by Joey Madia A spiritual practitioner and healer that I am serving as book editor for emailed me a few days ago after attending a writer’s conference. “I got a literary agent,” she said. “But...
View ArticleThe Slenderman Mysteries: An Internet Urban Legend Comes to Life
A review by Joey Madia In June 2009, two photo-shopped images of a “made up” entity dubbed “ the Slenderman” were uploaded to the Internet as part of a contest. The creator used as inspiration such...
View ArticleThe Van Meter Visitor: A True & Mysterious Encounter with the Unknown
“An Investigator’s How-To Handbook” A Review by Joey Madia Thanks in large part to horror films and cable “reality” paranormal shows, the immense amount of time and effort legitimate paranormal...
View ArticleEmily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman for Our Times
A Powerful Vision of the Human Future! A review by Douglas M. Gillette, MARS, M-Div In his brilliant and urgently prophetic new book, Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman for Our Times, Steven Herrmann,...
View ArticleLocker Arms
Horror with a Heart A review by Joey Madia In Danse Macabre, Stephen King postulates that great horror has at its core a collection of dark tropes gleaned from our reptilian brains and deepest...
View ArticleThe Black Diary: M.I.B., Women in Black, Black-Eyed Children and Dangerous Books
A review by Joey Madia Embedded in the upper righthand cover of this book is a red and white warning label: “Just picking up this book invites them in.” Given the publishing industry’s penchant for...
View ArticleIt was a Small Affair
A Review by Joey Madia It has been my pleasure over the past six years or so to review Ken Hart’s science fiction novels. This will be my third. My previous reviews were of Behind the Gem and The Eyes...
View ArticleBeneath the Fungoid Moon
Review by Joey Madia I have known Chuck Regan and his work for a long time. Three decades, actually. I started as a fan of his comic books, including Nether Age of Maga—a post-apocalyptic vision that’s...
View ArticleVisitations & Conversations
Review by Joey Madia A disclaimer to start. I am a paranormal researcher who is married to a psychic medium. My daughter is also a psychic medium. Given the sad fact that, in this day and age, a war is...
View ArticleReturn of the Butterfly
“The Promise of the Void”: A Review of Sharon Heath’s Return of the Butterfly, The Fleur Trilogy, Book 3 Review by Joey Madia Before you read another word of this review, be sure you’ve done one of the...
View ArticleLittle Darlings: A Novel
Review by Paige Ambroziak I went into “Little Darlings” knowing it was a supernatural thriller inspired by Grimm’s fairy tales, but I didn’t realize I’d experience such textured prose. Golding’s...
View ArticleThe Perfect Wife: A Novel
Review by Paige Ambroziak JP Delaney quotes Ovid’s myth of “Pygmalion” at the opening of his novel, but as I read it I couldn’t stop thinking about Victor Frankenstein. This is a domestic thriller with...
View ArticleAn Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Review by Paige Ambroziak There’s an intelligent and exquisite beauty to Daniel Mendelsohn’s writing. He’s clearly an educator, a deep thinker, a keen critic, and a writer in tune with an effective...
View ArticleThe Before Heaven I Ching: Reading the Text of Creation
Review by Joey Madia Modern life is admittedly complicated and complex. I am just old enough, having turned 50 last November, to say that it wasn’t always like this. Not to this degree. Ubiquitous...
View ArticleThe Watchman’s Rainbow and Other Works
Review by Joey Madia DISCLOSURE: For four years the author of this collection of short stories, plays, essays, and poems was a student in my creative writing classes held through an extension program...
View ArticleDifferent Drummers
A review by Joey Madia You never know where the connections you make in life will lead. Simply saying yes to opportunity, out of curiosity or even as a courtesy, can open doors to whole new worlds,...
View ArticleRansom
Review by K.P. Ambroziak **highly recommend** ***but read The Iliad, too!!*** I read this a year ago and just re-read it. It’s amazing how much of a difference a year makes. I loved it the first time I...
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