Category: Book Reviews
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Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences
From impoverished university student to struggling schoolteacher to one of the best-selling—and most recognizable—authors of all time, this engrossing book reveals the evolution and influences of Stephen King’s body of work over his nearly 50-year career, and how the themes of his writing reflect the changing times and events within his life.An expansion of Stephen King…
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Ninety Eight Sabers – by Elizabeth Broadbent
Family secrets. High strangeness. Reality TV. The Trenholm clan helped found Lower Congaree, South Carolina. Their land is cursed. Their abusive patriarch has croaked. Only heirs who attend the funeral will inherit. But when Truluck Trenholm suffered his eventually-fatal stroke, oldest son Ash turned the haunted plantation into an enormously successful reality show-with all the…
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Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs – by Rebecca Gransden
Dangerous creatures, neglected kids and dejected employees face the weird, odd and perilous. Enter a world where possessed pageant girls get their revenge, a pigeon leads to an underground cult, and a video game mod threatens to unleash hell itself. Enjoy fourteen stories of spite, mischief, and malevolence! Dark bleatings, my happy tribe! I’m here…
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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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