Category: Book Reviews
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Black City Skyline and Darker Horizons – by Barry Lee Dejasu – Book Review
Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe! Today I’m reviewing a short story collection, and a first read from this particular author. I read A LOT of short story collections, both from my own personal TBR and from review requests. I get so many requests to review short story collections, you wouldn’t believe. I guess it’s a…
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The Laughing Policeman – by Elizabeth J. Brown – Book Review
A blood debt gone wrong. A demon unleashed. Thirty-four years ago, a supernatural horror was summoned into the world, leaving nothing but mutilated corpses in its wake… Until the day the trail went cold. Now it’s back, and the fate of a young Traveller girl and her mother hang in the balance. Their only hope…
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The Little Exorcist – by Alys Daddi – Book Review
Molly’s dad is a practical joker, a proper wind-up merchant, his sense of humour holds no bounds and when, what he thinks is a trick at his expense backfires he is left feeling a little unusual. His silliness stoops to new and more juvenile levels but strangely he has no memory of his bad behaviour.…
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The Glut – by Matthew Cash – Book Review
FREE YOURSELFWhat would you do if you found out your compulsions were not your fault?That something else had been controlling you all along?What would you do if you discovered there was a dark part of you, a part of humanity, that was put there by an entity older than the stars? Vince is binge-eating himself…
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Zombies! – by Paul Kane – Book Review
Dark bleatings my lovely goaties! Today I’m reviewing a zombie collection from Paul Kane, a writer I’m sure many of you know and love. I didn’t realise how long it had been since I last read a zombie book until I picked this one up… or how much I had been missing them. Despite the…
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Umbilical – by Teika Marija Smits – Book Review
Contents: Icarus Dreams Death of the Grapevine His Birth The Wife That Never Was Umbilical How to Honour a Beginning Minotaur/Mindtour Delphine as Daedalus The Case of the High Pavement Ghosts Girls’ Night Out ATU334 the Wise Our Lady of Flies The Green Man A Piece of Fabric the Size of a Pin Machina in…
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Fear Forge: Winter Quarter 2022 – Anthology – Book Review
A forged mask that communicates with the dead, a cable repairman called to investigate an empty field…or so he thinks, a father-son DIY project not quite working as intended, an excavation going horribly awry, and a blacksmith called to do the bidding of an old god. An unfortunate series of events, indeed… These infernal souls,…
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PARSEC: ISSUE 4 – Magazine Review – Blog Tour
Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe! I’m reviewing a magazine today, Issue 4 of Parsec, to be precise! I’m also able to give you a discount on issues of this lovely publication, courtesy of the kind folk at PS Publishing. This fabulous, gorgeous array of horrors is brought to you by PS Publishing, one of my…
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Dark Murmurs – by Silent House Press – Book Review
Silent House Press returns from the void with fifteen of horror’s best voices… Step into our library where you’ll find scavenger hunts, interdimensional portals, monsters, murder, and maybe even some magic…. These dark murmurs aren’t for the faint of heart, but you knew that already,didn’t you? STORIES BY:Mocha PenningtonElizabeth MassieRichard ChizmarBrandon ScottPhilip FracassiLydia PrimePatrick R.…