Category: Book Reviews
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Les Vacances – by Phil Sloman
Monasteries rising and falling. Heretics and stakes and fire. There were rebellions and revolution and tales of abundance and happiness and new beginnings. Within the book there were also lies and omissions and fallacies all designed to gloss over a dark past many had long forgotten. Many but not all. The vacation of a lifetime.…
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How I Learned The Truth About Krampus – by Tom Johnstone
Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure of legend with a classic half-goat half-demonic appearance. The night of the 5th December is Krampusnacht, when this hairy devil appears on the streets – on his own or accompanying St. Nicholas, but always carrying a bundle of birch twigs ready to punish those who have misbehaved. At least, that’s…
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Come Sing for the Harrowing – by Dan Coxon
The newest collection from award-winning writer, Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is a terrifying menagerie of the strange and weird. Unsettling, poignant, and always masterfully crafted, these 16 stories are a feast of folk horror where the fine line between the mundane and the malevolent is blurred beyond repair. With five never-before-published stories as well…
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Horror Movie – by Paul Tremblay
The monster at the heart of a cult 90s cursed horror film tells his shocking and bloody secret history. Slow burn terror meets high-stakes showdowns, from the bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World. Summer, 1993 –a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spend four weeks making Horror Movie, a…
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The Rictus Grin – by Erica Summers
A collection of eleven twisted and terrifying tales by award-winning horror author, Erica Summers. Including stories of gripping psychological horror, cosmic, bizarro, body horror, and extreme. Dark bleatings, my grinning tribe! Those of you who are familiar with my posts or YT videos will have no doubt heard me bleating on about my love for…
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That Which Stands Outside – by Mark Morris
That Which Stands Outside is a horror novel inspired by Nordic folklore. After Todd Kingston rescues Yrsa Helgerson from muggers one rainy London night, their resulting friendship quickly develops into a romance. When Yrsa’s mother dies, Todd accompanies her back to her childhood home, an isolated Nordic island. The reception they receive there is one of…
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The Corpse Road – by Sean Hogan
A senseless tragedy sends two sisters fleeing back to the refuge of Goaway, their isolated family cottage. As children, Goaway was always a safe and comforting place, a fairy-tale realm of myths and legends. But the sisters have now left childhood far behind them, and the arcane mysteries they discover there as adults promise to…
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Season of the Spirit – by Lex H. Jones
People have long believed that the festive season is the time of year when the world of the spirit stands at the shoulder of the world of the living. That can be a cheery thought, filling the heart with the warmth of a roaring fireplace. But not always. Sometimes that thought can bring an icy…
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All the Devils are Here – by Paul Finch
The midnight cathedral filled with fireThe leather-clad monstrosity that kills with a spiked maceThe unholy pact between man and demon Cynical London cop, Dora “Mac” McDougal, of the Metropolitan Police’s elite Organised Crime Command, has a strike-rate that is second-to-none, mainly because of her cavalier approach to rules and regulations. However, when Mac discovers the…
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They Shut Me Up – by Tracy Fahey
Life is tough. And then there’s The Change… A woman, ignored and invisible, starts to discover her voice. But who―or what―is speaking though her? Part body-horror, part feminist fiction, They Shut Me Up poses the question: how can we retell historic female narratives? Dark bleatings, my gorgeous tribe. A novella today, and one I’m happy to talk…
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