Reality Check (book) by Terry L Vinson on AuthorsDen

Reviewed by Nicholas Mounts (Reader)

Reviewed on September 2, 2004

I expect this book to defiantly be a disturbing fright fest. For those of you who may not know I wrote the story entitled �Dark Room�. "Dark Room" really is something that I put together at a time when I was having some very strange and disturbing dreams. Dreams which came and went with surreal and often abstract qualities that left me wondering about them all day, for better or worse. They inspired me to write this story, which is about another person�s dream (in this case a child�s) that inspires a reality show called "Dark Room." It seems like forever ago since I wrote the story though it really wasn't that long ago I suppose. Nickolaus Pacione is who I have to thank for telling me about the contest. For those of you who are not familiar with his work then you're in for a chilling treat...or nightmare depending on how easy you scare. Hanson Abood is another writer that I have been fortunate enough to read and believe me you should expect good things piggies! Unfortunately Terry Vinson�s work I not had a chance to read at the time, but I am looking forward to getting my chance when I receive the book. For those of you who enjoy horror and like (or hate) reality shows I do believe this book will certainly satisfy you�and I personally hope it frightens many.

Reviewed by Nickolaus Pacione

Reviewed on August 30, 2004

Bite of the Spider is one of my most grizzly horror stories to date and I can comment on Hasan Abood's and Joni Latham's Burnt offerings to the genre in this anthology both writers contributed to the collection under my encouragement. This is going to be a powerful collection especially you got a master like Terry onboard and a veteran of the website House of Pain on there as Steven L. Shrewsbury. This is a beast and I will say that much right now. "Bite of the Spider" was the alternate story to the one that almost got in -- the Cthulhu Mythos tinged vampire story, "House of Spiders." "Bite of the Spider" is "House of Spiders" set on a train; but the spiders are much smaller. The story itself is one of the nastiest horror tales in my collection and this book marks my print debute. It can be said I took the idea for "Bite" from an idea of a documentary that was filmed on Discovery Channel, "House of Spiders" was taken from another MTV reality Show that I call "MTV's Fear on crack." Royal Wedding is a classy supernatural gothic tale, "El Horror De Realidad" is one story that is beyond hellish. The stories one won't know much about until they are out are Terry's, Shrews, myself, and Nicholas S. Mounts.