Category: Book Reviews
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The Wretched Bones – by C.M. Saunders
The Regal Retreat is an exclusive resort situated deep in the countryside of East Anglia where the rich and famous go to unwind. However, far from being a place of rest and relaxation, bad things happen there. Its history has been plagued by tragedy and misfortune. Over the years there have been scores of killing…
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Fluffy Fucking Bunnies – by David Youngquist
Since the interstellar ships of the United Worlds dropped into the Earth’s atmosphere five years ago, Doctor Dan Smith’s life and career as a historian for the local museum have been busy. He’s been blessed with not only new information about the little blue world we live on, but sister planets throughout the galaxy. Like…
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Disintegration – Edited by Darren Speegle
Disintegration: the breaking down of something into small particles or into its constituent elements. Fifteen of the greatest minds in speculative fiction come together to explore this concept, with their own unique takes on the theme. From relationship disintegration to age disintegration to dark post-apocalyptic fantasy, these stories weave a web of imagination that encroaches upon…
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Ink Vine – by Elizabeth Broadbent
Sometimes, you just pick your poison and pray Stay the hell out of the swamp — the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment. But when exotic dancer Emmy Joiner sneaks under the dark tree-canopy behind her family trailer, she meets mysterious, tattooed Zara, the first girl she dares to kiss. But…
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These Things Linger – by Dan Franklin
When Alex Wilson’s estranged uncle unexpectedly dies, Alex realizes he would do just about anything to make peace with the man who had raised him as his own. He’d even reach out to the dead. But things more dangerous than ghosts haunt his uncle’s broken down trailer and the nearly abandoned one-gas-station town of Fair…
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Missing in Miskatonic – by J.P. Behrens
Dark bleatings, my mysterious, cosmic tribe! I’m here today with a review of my third (I think?!) J.P. Behrens book, and I have to say, I was delightfully surprised by this one. I’ve enjoyed Behrens’s other works but this one was quite far away in tone and plot from what I’ve read so far from…
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Mantis – by Erica Summers
Chain-smoking bisexual, Mantis, finds herself amid a demon apocalypse. With the book of Revelations unfurling before her very eyes, she recruits a reformed prostitute, a bubbly stripper, and a hopelessly smitten DJ to try to stop the biblical event in its tracks. Can the uproarious crew of misfit degenerates save the world before it’s destroyed?Locked…
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Terrors From The Toy Box – Phobica Books
In a dark corner of the attic lies a wooden box burgeoning with forgotten relics from bygone decades. Evil effigies of plastic, metal and wood claw their way out of their dusty confines into your very nightmares. Devil dolls and terrifying teddies, abominable action figures and gruesome games all lying in wait for the opportunity…
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Ain’t No Witch – by John Linwood Grant
Mamma Lucy don’t suffer fools, she don’t take no sass, and she ain’t no witch. Call her hoodoo woman, conjure lady, root doctor, but call her right — you may have need of her. From Georgia to Vermont, Mamma Lucy travels a long road, facing the darkness and injustices of haint-ridden nineteen twenties America, silver…
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Two of a Kind – by Chisto Healy
Everyone knows about workplace drama. We all know that miserable guy that hates everyone because they’re too blonde, attractive, good at their job, well-liked, and queer…But what if that guy was a serial killer?Things could get messy.What if the coworker he directed his anger towards that was too blonde, attractive, good at his job, well-liked,…
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