Ball Peen Hammer by Adam Rapp and George O’Connor – review
Ball Peen Hammer is as relentlessly bleak a story as I have ever read. Almost claustrophobic in its execution. Read this and The Road one after the other and not only will your mood be altered for the worse, but you might be contemplating something stupid.
The back of the book is blank except for a single blurb “Not for gentle readers.” These words should be heeded.
More after the jump…
SYNERGY – Childhood Scary Stories
Synergy is back! This is the fourth installment of the feature, and the first under my dictatorship as BSC’s editrix. If you haven’t seen this column before, the basic idea is that we put the same question to a variety of professionals (and sometimes amateurs) who interest us to create a plateful of amuse bouche interviews. This time around we took the question straight to some of the hottest names in horror, comics, urban fantasy, and more.
The question? What was your favorite scary story as a kid? The answer could be anything from an urban legend to “vampires” to a specific book or movie or comic. Anything at all…as long as it was something especially striking to you….
Respondents range from bestselling writers like Charlaine Harris and Carrie Vaughn, to grand masters like Joe R. Lansdale and Brian Lumley, to noir/crime writers like Jimmy Palmiotti and Charlie Huston, and more. If you missed our previous installments of Synergy, go check them out.
If you’ve already read those, take the jump and read our latest!
