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Book Review: KOLCHAK: HAUNTED & HUNTED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/16/2024
KOLCHAK: HAUNTED & HUNTED | ©2024 Moonstone Books

Writer: Paul Terry, based on characters created by Jeff Rice and Richard Matheson Price: $7.49 Publisher: Moonstone Books Publication Date: May 24, 2024 There are certain books, films and TV series that are inflection points for their genres, subtly or even overtly changing the way things are seen and done ever after. One of these was THE NIGHT STALKER, which premiered on ABC January 11, 1972. Based on a previously unpublished novel by Jeff Rice and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey from a script by Richard Matheson, the telefilm introduced us to struggling but determined newspaper writer Carl Kolchak, played […]Read On »


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ALEX RIDER: Creator Anthony Horowitz gives the scoop on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/07/2024
ALEX RIDER Season 3 Key Art | ©2024 Amazon Freevee

Season 3 of the spy thriller ALEX RIDER premieres in its eight-episode entirety on Amazon Freevee in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. Based on the series of bestselling novels by Anthony Horowitz, ALEX RIDER follows the title character, played by Otto Farrant, an English teenager who discovers that his late uncle and his late father were both spies. The clandestine U.K. government group, the Department, that hired both men (and got them killed in the line of duty) enlists Alex to infiltrate a school for them in 2020’s Season 1. Then they cut him loose, despite Alex’s desire to […]Read On »


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Book Review: SNOWBLIND by Maria Alexander

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/13/2021
SNOWBLIND book cover | ©2020 Ghede Press

Writer: Maria Alexander Price: $13.70 Publisher: Ghede Press Publication Date: June 1, 2020 SNOWBLIND is the third installment in author Maria Alexander’s Bloodline of the Yule trilogy, following her Stoker Award-winning SNOWED and its sequel, SNOWBOUND. The books posit the intriguing mythological notion that jovial Santa Claus, aka St. Nicholas, and evil Krampus are in fact two aspects of the same being, the Klaas. Charity Jones is a teenager who is also a brilliant mechanical engineer. Our narrator in SNOWED, she falls for the mysterious Aidan MacNichol, who turns out to be the son of the current Klaas. In SNOWBOUND, […]Read On »


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Book Review: SNOWBOUND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/05/2019
SNOWBOUND novel by Maria Alexander | ©2019 Ghede Press

Writer: Maria Alexander Price: $13.99 Publisher: Ghede Press Publication Date: July 21, 2018 What with NOS4A2 making Christmas in July scary again on TV, this seems the ideal time to pick up Maria Alexander’s novel SNOWBOUND. This is the second in Alexander’s Yuletide trilogy, following her Bram Stoker Award-winning SNOWED. While it is advisable to read SNOWED before SNOWBOUND (and SNOWED is excellent in its own right), it’s not absolutely necessary. Alexander brings us up to speed without repeating herself. SNOWBOUND is told in the alternating first-person voices of Charity Jones, a brilliant just-out-of-high-school engineer now doing government work, and […]Read On »


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Book Review: THE LAST DREAM KEEPER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/22/2016
THE LAST DREAM KEEPER | © 2016 Ace Paperback Original

Writer: Amber Benson Publisher: Ace Paperback Original Publication Date: January 2016 Suggested Retail Price: $15 THE LAST DREAM KEEPER is a follow-up to Amber Benson’s THE WITCHES OF ECHO PARK. Anyone who is familiar with that area of Los Angeles probably wondered if Benson’s first book in this series was fact or fiction. Echo Park is funky and forested and seems entirely likely to host a coven of magical practitioners. In fact, WITCHES is a work of horror-tinged urban fantasy, with Lyse returning from out of state to tend to her beloved great-aunt Eleanora, who turns out to be Lyse’s […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Author Diana Gabaldon discusses the move to TV – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/14/2015
Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall in OUTLANDER | © 2015 Starz

Starz’s OUTLANDER, Saturdays at 9 PM, is now in the midst of its overwhelmingly popular first season and renewed for a second. The series tells the story of Claire Beauchamp Randall (Caitriona Balfe), a married WWII British Army nurse who finds herself transported to the Highlands of 1700s Scotland, where she meets, has to marry and eventually falls in love with Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a local laird with his own castle – and major troubles with British officer Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies), the sadistic ancestor of Claire’s twentieth-century spouse Frank (also Menzies). Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the best-selling series […]Read On »


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Book Review: HOW TO BE DEATH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/17/2012
How To Be Death - A Calliope Reaper-Jones Novel by Amber Benson | ©2012 Ace

Writer: Amber Benson Price: $7.99 Publisher: Ace Mass Market Paperback Original “I am Death” was the perfect line to conclude writer Amber Benson’s trilogy about Calliope Reaper-Jones. Callie, as her fans will recall, started as the title character in DEATH’S DAUGHTER, wanting the mundane life of a mortal but gradually accepting her supernatural destiny, including her job as the literal embodiment of Death. However, there’s no reason to keep a good, lethal force of nature down, so Calliope is back in Book Four of the series, HOW TO BE DEATH, which is also the title of the tome our heroine […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Amber Benson on HOW TO BE DEATH novel – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/02/2012
How To Be Death - A Calliope Reaper-Jones Novel by Amber Benson | ©2012 Ace

Calliope Reaper-Jones started as the title character in Amber Benson’s first solo novel DEATH’S DAUGHTER as a young New Yorker very reluctantly grappling with her supernatural heritage. Thanks to the book’s best-selling success and the adventures, tragedies and triumphs in two follow-up novels, CAT’S CLAW and SERPENT’S STORM, Calliope has now graduated from offspring to Death herself. In HOW TO BE DEATH, Calliope finds herself trying to solve several murders among a group of most unusual suspects, including a number of gods and goddesses. Benson, who still has a multitude of fans for her portrayal of Taraon BUFFY THE VAMPIRE […]Read On »


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Assignment X’s 2011 Last Minute Shopping Guide

By The Editors of ASSIGNMENT X 12/23/2011
'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Blu-ray | ©2011 Warner Bros.

Christmas is only a couple days away, which means it’s time to stop procrastinating and get out there and start searching for that last minute Christmas gift for that special someone you forgot about. To help out, we’ve compiled out annual 2011 Holiday Gift Guide in one snappy little article. Whether you’re looking for toys, books, music, gadgets or the coolest new Blu-rays, this guide will give you a Cliff Notes version of some of the cool things this holiday season has to offer for those in dire need of Christmas gifting. Happy Holidays from the Editors of ASSIGNMENT X. […]Read On »


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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: Five Geeky Books

By The Editors of ASSIGNMENT X 12/15/2011
STEVE JOBS by Walter Isaacson

With all the Christmas songs on the radio and in the mall, corporate sponsored holiday specials taking over the airwaves and department store commercials encouraging you to BUY, BUY, BUY, it becomes harder and harder each year to find that perfect gift for someone special. That’s where ASSIGNMENT X comes in with our annual Holiday Gift Guide. We dig deep, so you don’t have to and have come up with a whole slew of books, music, games, toys and more that should satisfy the pop culture addict on your gift-giving list. So without further ado, welcome to ASSIGNMENT X’s 2011 […]Read On »


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