Alan Kelly

Faithless: Book One of the Alyce Kerr, Faith Healer Trilogy
Written by Yolanda Sfetsos
Damnation Books
Reviewed by Alan Kelly

Someone forgot to tell the heroine of Yolanda Sfetsos' new horror novella Faithless, Alyce Kerr, that the road to the New Age success story is one that’s always been paved with bad intentions. It is clear from the outset that the character has never rented out The Craft or seen an episode of Buffy which features Willow...

Review by: Alan Kelly
Author: Danny Hogan

It’s hardly a surprise that Miramax looked at the buying options for Danny Hogan’s brazen novella Killer Tease. At a mere 23,000 words, this little book would make the perfect template for a film. A compact little book which is guaranteed to never let your attention waver.

Killer Tease has as its center-piece Eloise Murphy. She isn’t pleasant, she is a down and dirty dangerous woman whose been pissed off once to often. This slim little book should be handed out as a how-to-crush-a-potential-rapists-nuts-manual to every naive 16 year old girl (and boy!) – Eloise is a burlesque star at a sleazy seaside resort until a punter chances his arm and near loses it. Shortly thereafter Eloise is exiting stage left, blackmailed into working for a ferrety pimp who happens to have in his possession some unsavory pictures from her past, she inexorably drawn into a trafficking racket.

By Alan Kelly

Alexandra Sokoloff is a screen-writer well established in California writing novel adaptations (like the thriller Cold Kisses) for various Hollywood studios like Sony, Miramax and Disney. A graduate of UC Berkeley where she majored in theatre and minored in just about everything else. Sokoloff has had three extremely well-received novels published: The Harrowing, The Price and The Unseen and is collaborating on a vampire trilogy with Heather Graham and Deborah Leblanc, which is due out next year...

Interview by Alan Kelly

Vaudeville, veiled hats, doppelgangers, clowns, macabre, destruction, deformities, ghosts, insane asylums, cut throat razors, creepy dolls, blood baths, Kathy Acker, Sartre, b/w crime photography, oddities, gas masks, medical curiosities, prosthetic limbs, existentialism, surrealism, Bataille, shiny sharp toys, tod browning, cannibalism, serial killers, philia; each word more or less sums up Rachel Kendall’s Sein und Werden (Being and Becoming). Rachel Kendall, the editor of Sein und Werden has agreed to sit down for a few words on the weirdest print/online magazine currently doing the rounds. A magazine that is going from strength to strength...

By Alan Kelly