Category: Book Reviews
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Misery and Other Lines – by C.C. Adams
She’s out there. Looking for someone.It doesn’t matter if you’re going somewhere special. It doesn’t matter if you’re going nowhere special. It doesn’t matter if you’re going home. Because once you’re on the Underground this Hallowed Eve, the sly and sinister have you marked.But she’s the worst of them all.So, watch your step…and mind the…
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Territory – by Dan Howarth
In a remote Finnish hunting community, darkness and the cold hold the villagers close. As a pack of wolves threaten the village’s future, grief-stricken hunter Jari must unite the population to reclaim their territory. Haunted by the loss of his wife and his best hunting dog, hunter Jari tries to stem the flow of alcohol…
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A Bouquet of Viscera – by Bridgett Nelson
2023 Splatterpunk Award Winner for Best Collection and Best Short Story! An overzealous vigilante, who sees her victims’ auras, finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation. A young woman, injected with a microchip in a futuristic America, develops unusual and grisly cravings. Four high school graduates end up on the menu of a giant, mutant…
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Skybreaker – by Tyler J. Welch
No synopsis…mysterious! But basically, this novella tells the tale of a Mayan tribe that, anticipating an apocalyptic event, seek the help of something much bigger than them, through a bloody ritual. Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe! I’ve got a novella recommendation/review for you today. Last year, I reviewed this author’s debut novel, ‘End Realm’, and…
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Blood Crazy – by Simon Clark
Saturday. An ordinary day. People out shopping. Going to the movies. Eating fast-food. Just an ordinary Saturday. Right? Wrong. Twenty-four hours later, civilization has been torn apart. Adults begin roaming the streets in howling mobs. They have become murderously insane and nobody under the age of nineteen is safe. Running through the burning ruins of…
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Coup de Grace – by Sofia Ajram
Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds himself in an endless, looping station. Determined to find a way out…
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Requiem – by John Palisano
Ava must fight an entity locked in on taking out the crew of the Eden, a moon-sized cemetery in space, as it brings back the souls of the dead buried aboard. One such soul is Ava’s lost love, Roland. The spirits of the interred on the Eden haunt those aboard, including a visiting musician is…
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The Invisible Woman – by James P. Blaylock
The bright spring weather in Old Orange is deceptive, with dark undercurrents shifting beneath the surface of the busy lives of Jane and Jerry Larkin. Jerry is restoring an old boarding house, exposing its dark history, and Jane’s busy Co-op is victimized by malicious mischief that grows more mailicious by the day. Their troubles roil…
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Dark Addendums – by Richard Daniels
Five tales from the world of the Occultaria of Albion.The Occultaria of Albion explores encounters of the the paranormal, the supernatural and the strange. Seance On A TrainFour individuals: a clairvoyant, a grieving husband, a journalist and a paranormal investigator, come together for the purpose of a seance. The trainline they are on is known…
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You – by Caroline Kepnes
When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works, he is instantly smitten. But there’s more to Joe than Beck realises and much more to Beck than her perfect facade. And the obsessive relationship quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences… A chilling account of unrelenting, terrifying deceit, Caroline Kepnes’ You is a…
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