Category: Book Reviews
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Bishop – by Candace Nola
Dark bleatings, my amorphous tribe! I’ve had werewolves on the brain recently, which got me thinking “what other were-creatures are there?” Naturally, the first book I picked up in the ‘weird were’ genre was Candace Nola’s Bishop, which has been recommend to me oh, I dunno, about a thousand times over the last year. “Caught…
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So Thirsty – by Rachel Harrison
Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn’t need a reminder she’s getting older, or that she’s feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway―not with him, but with Sloane’s longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance…
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You Like it Darker – by Stephen King
‘You like it darker? Fine, so do I’, writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life – both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and…
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Uneasy Beginnings – by Simon Kurt Unsworth and Benjamin Kurt Unsworth
Dark bleatings, my shadowy tribe! Today I’m reviewing Uneasy Beginnings, which is the 21st offering in the Black Shuck Books Shadows series. Each Shadows book is self-contained, normally written as a single collection by one author, and always themed (the author picks the theme). This one is different in that it’s co-authored by father and…
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Guy Fawkes: Demon Hunter
A Diabolical Plot – by Benjamin Langley It’s time for Guy Fawkes to face his destiny. Seeking allies to help combat England’s demons, Guy Fawkes fights all over Europe with friends old and new until an encounter with the King of Spain sends him into Africa to interrupt England’s supply of gunpowder. But in Morocco,…
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Coldbrook – by Tim Lebbon
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT HAS CHANGED FOREVERTHE REASON IS COLDBROOK The facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they…
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End Realm – by Tyler J. Welch
A man finds himself in a dark unfamiliar world of starlit rivers and black obsidian landscapes, with only two golden coins as his possessions and no memory of who he is or where he comes from. He soon learns he is in a place called the End Realm from the monstrous boatman on the River…
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Elemental Forces – edited by Mark Morris (from Flame Tree Press)
Elemental Forces is the fifth volume in the non-themed horror series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horror stories, 16 of which have been commissioned from some of the top names in horror, and 4 selected…
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Grey Dog – by Elliot Gish
The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd — spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist — accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny…
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Kitty – by S.Q. McGrath
Knock, knock, knock, one, two, three! Kitty come and play with me! . . . It was supposed to be one of those harmless sleepover games girls play, and yet the morning after, one of them was gone. Twenty-three years later, the four who remained have built their complicated lives, but they’ve not forgotten the missing,…
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