Category: Book Reviews
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We Are Here to Hurt Each Other – by Paula D. Ashe
SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD WINNER!BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINATED With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sacred and no one is safe. A landscape of urban decay and human degradation, this collection finds the psychic pressure points of us all, and giddily squeezes. Try to run,…
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Sacrilege – by Barbara Avon
Wayward priest Cris Corelli rids himself of the sacred collar and leaves town, boarding the midnight train with no destination in mind. Satan is following him – lurking in the shadows. Corelli finds himself at an unassuming boarding house run by beautiful, yet tortured, Jules. She has her own secrets. They are the kind that…
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Malevolent Fairy – by BB Clifford
WHEN ANIA WAKES UP IN A CAMP FOR TROUBLED SOULS, she has no memory of how she got there, and yet the people who surround her seem familiar. As if that wasn’t strange enough, the camp has been set up in an abandoned and derelict place. Faced with violence from the outset, Ania tries to return…
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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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