Category Archives: Sample Reviews

Some examples of Gene Stewart’s nonfiction.

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, A Review

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Gene Stewart

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay William Morrow, 2015, 1st edition hardcover 284pp, deckled pages ISBN:  978-0-06-236323-7 A Review by Gene Stewart A layered, literary mystery/horror novel in a class by itself, likely to be an instant classic, … Continue reading →

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The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker: A Review

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Gene Stewart

The Scarlet Gospels Clive Barker St. Martin’s Press $29.99 USD / Hardcover Special Dust Jacket 362pp, ISBN:  978-1-250-05580-4 If you read this book you will go to Hell. You’ll like such a damnation. Clive Barker’s return to horror, as it’s … Continue reading →

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Review of Murder As A Fine Art by David Morrell

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Murder As A Fine Art by David Morrell 2013, Little, Brown, & Co. hc ISBN: 978-0-316-21679-1 Introduction, Afterword, Postscript, 358pp A Review by Gene Stewart Yes, the title echoes the book by Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium … Continue reading →

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Review of The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Gene Stewart

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter Simon & Schuster, 2013, hc ISBN: 978-1-4516-4020-5 485pp, map on endpapers A Review by Gene Stewart This is a Bob Lee Swagger novel. That’s the lead character. He smacks of Mary Sue, along the … Continue reading →

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Review of I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Gene Stewart

  I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter Simon & Schuster, 2015 1st ed. hc, inc. 4pp bibliography ISBN: 978-1-4767-6485-6 A Review by Gene Stewart A novel about Jack the Ripper, researched in detail and presented in the voices of 1888 contemporaries, … Continue reading →

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Droodish Memories

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Being more detailed, complicated, and serious than necessary for a thriller, The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl is a work of scholarly obsession.  How much fiction is flensed in he carefully details in the end notes and the clever interview … Continue reading →

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RAT STEW: TV, and HistorLatelyy – What’s Been In My Head

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Gene Stewart

A few days ago in Omaha, near where I live, a man was killed by gunfire at a park. He was driving and tried to escape the bullets by going cross-country, breaking through a split-rail fence onto a grassy field. … Continue reading →

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Our Occulted History by Jim Marrs, A Review

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? by Jim Marrs Wm. Morrow, 2013, hardcover 382pp, notes, index A Review by Gene Stewart Jim Marrs? Aliens? Must be some kind of joke. He wrote Crossfire, which, blended with … Continue reading →

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The Ancient Alien Question by Philip Coppens, A Review

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Gene Stewart

The Ancient Alien Question: A New Inquiry Into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors by Philip Coppens Career Press/New Page, 2012 320pp, 8p color insert, b&w illos throughout, notes, bibliography, index A Review by Gene Stewart Featuring an … Continue reading →

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Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon, A Review

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon Penguin, 2014, 477pp, trade paperback A Review by Gene Stewart This is the single best book about New York City and about 9/11, just as Pynchon is the best living writer. In it, NYC is … Continue reading →

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