REVIEWS:

"Greg’s writing, and the details of the plot, are more than enough to keep
readers turning pages, and there’s a very unexpected twist as Eric’s love life
finally blooms in the story. ... Horror fans who loved the over-the-top novels
and slasher films of the 1980s will see their youthful favorites released from
an uneasy grave with JOHNNY GRUESOME. The killings are deliciously
gory, the characters well developed and believable, and the pace is perfect."
Click to read the full review -- HorrorWorld

"With its fast cars, leather jackets, and wholesome small town vibe, Johnny Gruesome feels like the drive-in movie you never saw. Lamberson saturates the grisly ordeal with an ever- present sense of fun and melodrama - meant here in the best possible way. Unrequited love, rival gang clashes, and drug disputes are prominent alongside disembowelments and dismemberments. The affecting side dramas are engaging and infuse the story with enough humanity to balance it."
Click to read the full review -- Dark Scribe Magazine

"...Lamberson can WRITE. Even though this homage to the splatter films of the 1980’s, efforts which were always fun but rarely triggered brain activity, IS a wild ride through the darker recesses of the reader’s imagination, there’s a well-written story underneath it all. This could have easily been a throwaway novel, comic-turned-book-with-gimmicks, but the writing is chock full of great characterization, fast pacing (something that’s NOT easy to do), and humor (something lacking in too many novels today)."
Click to read the full review -- Hellnotes

"Johnny is also the kind of villain you find yourself rooting for, he’s cool, nasty and a smart ass, and not in the way too-many-bad-puns kind of way, thank God. You can’t wait for him to take his next victim down and you definitely can’t wait to see what fucked up way he does it. Gruesome is not all T&A and cheap violence. That is just what I tend to focus on. Greg does a good job of setting up the characters of Johnny Gruesome, and makes an effort to flesh his book out to something more than just some “cheap scares.” He does touch on the dynamics of certain character relationships and also includes a few very interesting Frankenstein homages, which when done right never get old."
Click to read the full review -- Horror Yearbook

"The whole book has this loving Creepshow feel to it. The pacing is fantastic. ... Gregory Lamberson has delivered a solid, old school horror story wrapped up in the rotten bow of the Creepshow Cryptkeeper."
Click to read the full review -- Bloodtype Online

"GREGORY LAMBERSON has set the novel in modern times but, as I was reading, I couldn’t escape the sensation of being held in the comforting times of my own teenage years. The way it is written expertly captures the terror filled excitement I felt upon my first foray into horror. With JOHNNY GRUESOME the horror genre has been given a timeless classic that will live on for eternity, a blood soaked memory of original death sequences that will chill the blood and curl the toes."
-- GOREZONE (print, UK) excerpt

"This is top-down one of the best, most gripping, and most gruesome horror novels I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. The characters are amazingly believable, the killer is likable as well as terrifying, and the story doesn’t flag even a little. All in all, there is no reason not to hold this book close to your jaded, black, horror-soaked heart."
-- Skullring.org, click to read the full review -- http://mattstaggs.blogspot.com/2007/10/review-of-johnny-gruesome-by-gregory.html