Category: Book Reviews
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When Daylight is as Scary as Full Dark! || Night and Day, edited by Ellen Datlow
A horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in the light of day in this new addition to the Saga Doubles series. This anthology contains stories from some of the most evocative and…
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Don’t Go Down There! ||Book Review|| The Sewer Guard – by James Elworthy
Due to his father’s betrayal, the city guard relentlessly pursues William. He lived his entire life on the grimy streets, befriending the other street urchins. Eventually, they capture William and his streak of luck ends. William and his friends have to choose between prison or becoming sewer guards. They all choose the sewer guard, expecting…
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A “Monumental” New Horror Novel from Adam Nevill || Book Review
A story of life and death in the wilderness, and a horrifying tale of extreme survival against supernatural powers, from the four times winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. Disaster strikes quickly and without warning. What should have been a glorious weekend of kayaking and camping, in a secluded beauty spot,…
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Religious Perversion and Weird Family Dynamics: Bankrupting Sky Banks – by Erik Hofstatter
The disquiet in our heads has started fires again. God tries to smoke us out. We have red hair because our heads are alight. But we resist His interpretation. Red also shows our willingness to bleed. Everyday more flesh leaves our bones. They all leave. The people we love—only out of habit, for contentment. The…
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The Best Horror Indeed – Advance Review: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seventeen
Dark bleatings, my very best tribe! If you’re “in” the horror scene, you will no doubt be familiar with Ellen Datlow, and the extraordinary annual buzz about which stories make her Best Of list each year. To have one of your stories named in a Datlow list is considered an honour, and it’s easy to…
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ARC Book Review: The Night Ship – by Alex Woodroe
An apocalyptic world turned into a pitch-black sea of nothingness, but smuggler Rosi and her crew of survivors aren’t alone. Something hungry lurks below… Driving a logging truck though the Romanian mountains, smuggler Rosi and her crew come across a radio signal that hints at impending doom. As the world goes completely dark, their truck…
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Let’s Start 2026 with a Review of Something Epic! King Sorrow – by Joe Hill
Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings. But his idyll – and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot – is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library. Trapped and desperate,…
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I Don’t Know if I’m Dying to Visit This Motel, or Desperate to Never Find It…Stories From the Motel Sick – edited by Michael Allen Rose
Stories From The Motel Sick is a genre-bending anthology featuring new stories from authors of horror, bizarro fiction, sci-fi, erotica, noir, and so much more. Each story takes place at the Motel Sick, a strange, metaphysical motel on the edge of a highway leading to nowhere in particular. Inside, you’ll find criminals and lovers, aliens,…
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I’ll Be Gripping my Soul with Both Hands From Now On…
MANCHESTER 1888 Through the darkness of a mid-winter nightshift, the flicker of a candle flame illuminates the exhaustion in Dr Warren Carter’s eyes; memories of a painful surgery and the fine line of human frailty haunt his every thought. A nightcap with the beautiful Rosie is just the tonic he needs. What should’ve been a…
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One Hell of a Debut – The Shape of Guilt, by Lisa Fransson
Robert Bunny, a toy bunny rabbit, observes the steady decline of a family he so desperately wants to be a part of. His is the only voice of reason as he connects the crumbling mind of Deborah to her son Alex, whilst she tries to save him from the very worst of himself. The Shape…
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