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Roswell wasn't the only place where aliens landed. The Kryszka build a city under Philadelphia's sewers where their leader Eigil secretly plots to show humanity the "dark side" of their moon. He will cannibalize them and kill them all.

Harry and his family become the main targets after his father shoots Eigil's mother. A recovering alcoholic, Harry learns about blood, death, plasma weapons, and stormy relationships during his torturous swim up from the bottom of a bottle. The disappearance of a close friend and his sister sparks a frantic search through the Kryszka compound where the inhabitants could eat him alive or teach him survival skills.

Harry, his family will come to realize what the dark side really means.  Click here to read a sample chapter!


"Harry, his family will come to realize what the dark side really means."

I give this book:

My Thoughts:

This book really caught me by surprise. I'm always up for a good alien tale and this one sure fit the bill. It had the action, excitement, turmoil and dysfunctional families. Barbara Custer has a gem of a book here!

First off, we start with the aliens, Kryszka, who crashed into Earth and hoping that they had landed in a friendly environment. But unfortunately some events lead to another and then it seems that in order to protect their own species, they end up trying to get revenge for the fallen, mainly the leader, Engil who is out for revenge. Needless to say, the story revolves around a very dysfunctional family and while the mother is dying she whispers some words to her daughter that she had a different father. So in the mix of it all, people are disappearing and showing up in the woods pretty much in the state that they are unrecognizable. Which in turn causes fear of the woods.

But what the humans didn't know was that the aliens have created a city underneath their town and are cannibals. So a group of humans, Harry, his sister, her husband and a group of people who want to live make a daring attempt at survival of the fittest and want their town to be left alone.

Barbara Custer created a world with aliens who are pretty much like humans - they can be mean and evil but yet some can be nice and friendly. Which would you rather meet? Personally, I'd want to meet a good one. I don't know anyone who'd want to get eaten! LOL

This book was a wonderful change from the realm of vampires and werewolves and I would gladly read anything else by this author!

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Ruth Schaller of Ruthie's Reviews

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Outside, the moon shines with a reddish haze, and howling winds knock out power lines. Trees scrape the side of your house; something’s scratching the closet door…a big something. Gather your flashlights and suit up for the unspeakable, for you will surely find it in the closets of Blood Moons and Nightscapes: —

A little gray man who inspires fear, and with good reason. No one he approaches lives longer than a few days... —And the people living underneath the sewers with blood red eyes, who are seeking retribution and exact their revenge in human flesh... —And nurses whose flair for torturing the elderly make Colin Norris seem like Florence Nightingale. —And grim-faced enemy soldiers who kill by twilight, competing with poisonous snakes and other vermin... —And the computers at Memorial Hospital—impressive and reliable equipment until someone starts using them to delete people... You'll find it all in Blood Moons and Nightscapes. 

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welcome to twilight healer,  where a once-ridiculed respiratory therapist finds success as a vampire...

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Tragedies beset leslie, a timid, bullied respiratory therapist -- her mother's suicide, a ruined career, her mistake which costs a patient's life, and numerous bloody killings near the hospital where she works.  Alex, her only friend, conceals a secret -- he's a 100-year-old vampire.

 Seeking escape , Leslie stumbles into Adria, an alternate universe ruled by fire, vampires, and the underworld god hades. alex finds her near death after a brutal beating; he offers her immortality. 

Immortality gifts leslie with love and longed-for healing abilities, but she becomes a target for hades's wrath.  Hades plots the destruction of all vampires; flesh-eating bats serve as his spies.  leslie confronts hades, begging him to spare her life and Alex's...and risks frying in a towering inferno.

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Filament is an interesting little book club with very hungry readers. It features some of Tom Johnson's books, as well as some from other writers you might find intriguing, including good old Bram.

What makes the club unique is the fact that they actually give away an ebook reader with a year's subscription. The subscription is $19.95 a month and for that you get two books of your choosing from a wide variety of categories including, of course. Horror. The club has been around for five years now and is affiliated with Clear Channel's Coast to Coast AM radio show.

Read the latest reviews on Tom Johnson's Pangaea: Eden's Planet, Tunnel through Space, and Heroes of Ancient Greece.

Review of Heroes of Ancient Greece :

Five Stars
As I young fan of those classic barbarian movies of the 1950s and ‘60s, I found “Heroes of Ancient Greece” captured the best of the sand and sandal flicks of my youth. This collection has four enjoyable tales by three authors who must have grown up with those muscle action adventures also. The first half of the book is allotted to Hercules with two adventures, while the second half is devoted to Atalanta.

Hercules and the Moon Goddess by Tom Johnson pits the mighty half-mortal half-god against the Blue Moon Goddess, a woman from another world with a crew of giant robots at her command. Michael A. Black then presents Spawns of the Titans, in which the mighty Hercules must battle a sea monster and a giant Cyclops to free an island of chained slaves.

Artist Ron Wilber starts off the second half with The Legends of Atalanta, a three-page comic book retelling the legend of the mightiest female warrior that ever lived. Tom Johnson then returns with Atalanta and the Golden Lion, telling the story of Atalanta’s journey to Africa on the Argo to battle a prehistoric lizard and giant golden lion. And finishing up this fantastic collection is Ralph Horner’s Atalanta Alters the Tide of Alida. Atalanta must travel to the undersea kingdom of Atlantis to save its people and destroy a number of foes in the arena.

Based on Greek Mythology, the stories lean towards science fiction and fantasy, and you can tell the authors enjoyed writing these romps in mythical adventures. As I read them, I could imagine each story as a film produced by the famous Italian directors of the 1950s & ‘60s. I would love to see more Greek Mythology taken out of the classroom and given to these authors to write more great adventures for our heroes of Ancient Greece!

Terry Roberts, Reviewer
SF/Etc At A Glance


Review of Pangaea: Eden's Children:

Five Stars

The sequel to 2008’s “Pangaea: Eden’s Planet”, Eden’s Children resumes as the descendants repopulate and settle the primitive Earth. But much has passed in the 60 million years since the first novel. The Gen-sis have split into two factions, the Mellors, a weakly race that lives by science in the cities they built, and the Thongars who have returned to the jungle to live off their wits, and new found strength.

Desree, a beautiful jungle girl communes with the animals of her land, and is both protector and subject to the savage creatures of Pangaea. When modern man discovers a time portal that brings them to her land, they find a city with a treasure vault worth a dozen King Solomon’s Mines. Killing the Mellor guarding the treasure, they plan on removing the great wealth, but Desree and the savage jungle prove a formidable stumbling block. Armed only with a bow and arrows, she protects her world from these invaders.

I was fascinated by the world and characters the author created in this exciting tale of lost lands and peoples. The time is the Jurassic of Earth’s pre-dawn, but a Jurassic we can only imagine, as man and reptile exist together. The characters are more than mere paper figures running across the page. You journey with them, battle along side of them, and feel their love and pain. Mr. Johnson’s writing is reminiscent of the early works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and those early writers of science fiction adventure. A wonderful read, and I hope to find more books by the author.

Terry Roberts, Reviewer
SF/Etc At A Glance


Review of Tunnel through Space:

Five Stars

In this futuristic tale, a giant cargo ship transporting ore from the outer planets to Earth is sucked into a Black Hole, spitting ship and crew out somewhere near the Big Bang at the beginning of time. Crashing on a primitive planet in a binary star system, Captain Lamont Rogers and Lieutenant Marsha Tomlison survive, but are separated by hundreds of miles, with fierce jungle beasts and savage peoples in a land of thick jungle between them.

Attempting to reunite, the main characters must face dangers at every turn, and during their trials encounter both friend and foes. Captain Rogers, nicknamed the Preacher, has been a Godly man all his life, and does not believe in taking another’s life, but now he must learn to kill to protect his friends and those he loves. Lieutenant Tomlison is the opposite of her commander. Rough and untamed, she was constantly in trouble, usually involved in drunken brawls with the men she met in off-world saloons. Nor was she averse to sleeping with one she liked. Now, lost in the jungles of this savage land, she must humble herself as a primitive people rely on her for protection and leadership.

The author creates a world peopled with fascinating characters and animals, and spins a tale that keeps the reader turning pages. I was drawn into the action from the time we first meet these characters until the final page, and hope there is a sequel in the works. Tom Johnson does not rely on sex and ugly language to tell the story, and I was reminded of the storytellers that first brought us great jungle adventures, like Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Terry Roberts, Reviewer
SF/Etc At A Glance

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