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Essential Tomb of Dracula, Vol. 1 by Marv Wolfman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

There are a lot of reasons why I shouldn’t have liked this collection. It’s extremely text heavy for a comic. The plots are repetitive. The prose is ultra-purple. Characters needlessly narrate in dialogue the action that’s happening right there in the panel. Blade, one of only two main characters of color, speaks mostly in jive. The other, Taj, doesn’t speak at all. And yet…I kind of loved it. There’s an unintentional campiness to the pervasive gothic atmosphere that I very much enjoyed. It’s worth a look if you can get past its shortcomings. It definitely made for some fun Halloweentime reading.

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Attention, people who enjoy listening to other people talk! Have you been dying to hear my interview with the fine folks at Sword & Laser but didn’t want to be annoyed by those pesky visuals of us actually talking? (I don’t know why that would be. I mean, I may not be all that, but Veronica and Tom are lookers!) Well, anyway, good news, humans! The interview is now available as a podcast for your earholes! Listen to it on the treadmill, during your commute, or while just staring blankly at the living room wall!

In other news, I’m part of a Mind Meld over at SF Signal today. This one is called “What Book Would You Like to Experience Again for the First Time?” Want to know which book I chose? Click on through and be amazed!

Every House Is Haunted by Ian Rogers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A fantastic collection of short horror stories. Rogers has an immensely original and unpredictable imagination. Stories like “Aces” and “Inheritor” are absolutely captivating. I can’t wait to see what he writes next!

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Someone gave me an Amazon gift certificate, so I went on an e-book shopping spree! Check out what I bought:

 (Ugh, this cover! Why do e-books have to have awful covers sometimes?)

(I’m sensing a theme.)

 (A new collection by Lee Thomas is always something to celebrate, but this cover, I can’t even!)

 (“Who is one of your favorite authors?” you might ask me in a completely unrelated question.)

I think this is a pretty good haul, don’t you? And thank you, Kindle, for letting me buy so many amazing books without having to worry about where to store them in my tiny apartment!