Since the release of my debut novel, TICK TOWN, I have been absolutely blown away by the positive responses from regular readers and reviewers alike! Pulp

Here is a sampling (to be updated as they come in) of the formal editorial reviews of TICK TOWN.

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

KIRKUS REVIEWS: “Micklos (who is also a horror filmmaker) entertainingly hits just about all cliches in the formula…and plays the slaughter with a perfectly straight face, escalating skillfully and with a minimum of padding to the absurdly violent showdown in the heart of the hell-spawned tick nest…Gore nerds will appreciate this canny update of the trashy horror/SF potboilers of yesteryear.” (Full review HERE)

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: “Original, deftly crafted, and a fun read from cover to cover, ‘Tick Town’ by Wisconsin author Christopher A. Micklos is the kind of science fiction story they used for making B-movie SciFi flicks of the 1950s starring monsters threatening mankind. Featuring an impressive blending of pulp fiction style imagination, action, horror, and thrills (and with a cover art reminiscent of those old movie posters from the 50s) ‘Tick Town’ is especially and unreservedly recommended…” (Full review HERE)

MONSTERLIBRARIAN.COM: “Do you miss the good old days of 80s pulp fiction? The times of old, when books like Guy N. Smith’s Crabs series, James Herbert’s The Rats and Graham Masterton’s The Wells of Hell terrorized bookshelves everywhere? Fear not, for Christopher Micklos’s Tick Town is here, and he’s clearly learned from the best…the genre just may have found a new torch-bearer.” (Full review HERE)

WHISPERHOUSEPRESS.COM: “Christopher Micklos executes with precision, perfectly setting up and knocking down the tropey pins—but with a unique twist reflecting Micklos’s own authorial voice and vision...Micklos provides crisp examples of carefully and gleefully rendered gore and humor, and whether or not you’ve read pulpy horror before, you should check this out.” (Full review HERE)

CEMETARYDANCE.COM: “Armed with the Guy N. Smith reference, plus the perfect throwback cover art, it’s then no surprise that Tick Town ‘ticks along’ like a barreling B-movie…and mirrors those movies’  best qualities in plot and style…Readers will find it’s a near-perfect, creature-driven pulp horror extravaganza with a subtle but serious message lodged in its stinger.” (Full review HERE)

MALEVOLENTDARK.COM: “An utterly fantastic book for fun loving horror fans…Chris Micklos’ Tick Town is a wonderful novel, and an easy read. It’s plain fun wrapped in a nest of disgusting blood sucking parasites.” (Full review HERE)

THEBEDLAMFILES.COM: “TICK TOWN is…a no-frills updating of the ‘nasties’ horror fiction model of the 1970s and 80s, when authors like James Herbert, Guy N. Smith and Shaun Hutson wrote about killer bugs, rodents and crustaceans…with Miklos whole-heartedly providing all the things we want from a book like this one—namely blood, slime and bugs galore.” (Full review HERE)

HORRORBOOKWORMREVIEWS: “Tick Town by Christopher Micklos captures that classic ‘B movie’ vibe of the 1950’s that are fueled by horror, science fiction and the unknown. He unleashed his own style of strange and gruesome old school terror that could be in any modern day drive-in or double creature feature.” (Full review HERE)

AUTHORANTHONYAVINA.COM: “I loved this pulp horror novel. The instant I was hooked on this narrative, I was transported back to my youth, when my family and I watched the pulp horror meets creature feature Eight Legged Freaks…Haunting, thrilling, and entertaining, author Christopher Micklos’s ‘Tick Town’ is a must-read pulp horror classic in the making…” (Full review HERE)

HAPPYGOATHORROR.COM: “In terms of plot, this hits all the marks for what is essentially a very fun monster story. We have the small town, the vivid characters – some of which turn out to be no better than the vermin that now threaten them – a great creature, and once again, a perfect B-movie explanation for them.” (Full review HERE)