Category: Book Reviews
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I’ll Never Look At a Chalk Drawing the Same Way Again || Book Review || The Chalk Man – by C. J. Tudor
IT WAS ONLY MEANT TO BE A GAME . . . None of us ever agreed on when it started. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when they found the first body? Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe.…
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Ever Felt Like Just Going…Feral? || Book Review || Feral – by Gemma Amor
Meet Margot. She’s got it all: a loving boyfriend, a roof over her head, her health, a career. But increasingly, she feels like she’s had enough. Enough of the daily grind, enough of corporate life, but most especially, enough of her own self. Whilst Margot’s relationship with her own body has always been painful, she…
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Beyond and Within: Folk Horror – edited by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan || Book Review
A new anthology of Folk Horror stories, covering a wide range of mythologies and dark corners from around the world, revealing tales from the shadows of isolation, creepy forests and horrors rising from the land itself. Award-winning anthologists Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan have commissioned and chosen an outstanding selection of stories with contributions from…
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ARC Review || Ghosts of Chanterlands – by Catherine Cavendish
“You don’t belong here. None of you do. None but us….” 1940. Pamela Courtney is evacuated to Chanterlands – the home of her aunts: Jilly, the eccentric one, who dreams of her days as a star of the silver screen, and Bunny, the pragmatic one. But Chanterlands is home to more than just the living.…
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Queens of the Crone Age – by Tracy Fahey || Book Review
The mythic Hag of Béara reawakens to find older women now ignored and marginalised. Devotional talismans left at her altar unlock fourteen stories: The Hag listens to these stories, and as she does, her own wounds reopen. Can the narrators – and the Hag herself – find liberation and healing? Ideal for fans of Sharon…
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Oh…OH NO!!! || Book Review || Crypt of the Moon Spider – by Nathan Ballingrud
A young woman, committed to an asylum, undergoes a bizarre treatment that unlocks a vast well of power in this cosmic horror novella, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher. Veronica Brinkley has been committed to The Barrowfield Home, run by Dr. Cull, to treat her depression. The institution is built on the crypt of a…
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Lovecraft’s Brood – edited by Ellen Datlow || Book Review
This long-awaited sequel to the bestselling anthology Lovecraft’s Monsters is once again presided over by expert horror editor Ellen Datlow (FEARS, Body Shocks). Lovecraft’s Brood is a must-add to any horror fan’s library… or else. ‘Superstar editor Datlow makes no missteps.’ – Publishers Weekly. A prison guard and a convict have an affair fuelled by…
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A More Interesting Apocalypse || Thorns – by Gregory Bastianelli || Advance Book Review
Dr. Monica Cucinotta works on the front lines of a hospital in Cassino, Italy, dealing with a deadly contagion that causes thorns to erupt along the surface of the body. When Monica becomes infected with the virus and must leave the hospital, she begins a journey across the dark landscape of a pandemic world where…
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Wear Noise Blocking Headphones or You’re Doomed…|| The Siren of Groves Peak – by Glenn Rolfe || Book Review
Groves Peak, Maine is home to a dark secret. The successful lobstering community is ready for summer, but a murder at sea changes everything. People are dying in the small coastal town, and the lobstermen are on edge. Only one man knows the truth. His closet of skeletons is about to open, and no one…
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Well…This is a Scary Coven! || The Night Birds – by Christopher Golden || Book Review
Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak years ago, they never expected to see each other again. Now, as part of his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book lives aboard the Christabel, a 19th century freighter half-sunken off the shore of Galveston. Over many years, a…
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