Category: Book Reviews
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Parsec in Print – PS Publishing
ABOUT THIS BOOK When putting this anthology together, I was determined that it should not be called The Best of ParSec or anything of that ilk. A title such as that would be a slight on those stories that were not selected, suggesting they are in some way inferior to those that have been, and that’s simply…
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Backwaters – by Lee Rozelle
Welcome to Tallapoochee, a Southern backwater plagued by an experimental toxin that’s turning townsfolk into genetically modified freaks. Follow a puzzling trail of atrocities committed by an enigmatic river cult. Delve into thrilling tales of body horror, bizarro, and the weird. Read the unthinkable testimonies of the living and the dead. This “water-breaking” collection of…
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Muse – by LCW Allingham
Terra Desmarais’s success as the next big artist in NYC is absolutely inevitable. Her patrons, the associates, Mr. Black, Mr. Silver, and Mr. Green, can practically taste the raw talent dripping from the enigmatic trailer park prodigy’s dollar store paints. Up and coming pastel artist Cedric Fleck is a lucky discovery of the associates. Rescued…
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There’s Something Here From Somewhere Else – by Jonathon T. Cross
When 10-year-old Lydia received a mysterious doll on her stoop, she never dreamed it would become the catalyst for a perilous adventure. Although new to town, and shunned by the locals, she can’t dispel their whispers of an ancient creature dwelling beneath the still waters. Some dismiss the creature’s existence, while others insist that the…
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Six Stooges and Counting – by Ramsey Campbell
When Ramsey Campbell first encountered the Three Stooges, he was only a bemused spectator. Now he’s an admirer, and this personal appreciation celebrates the reasons. Few Hollywood comedy teams have endured like the Stooges, either in length of career or in continuing to entertain. One secret of their longevity was how their line-up often changed.…
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The Barricade – by Stephanie Ellis
Dark bleatings, my anticipating tribe! It’s release day for Stephanie Ellis’s brand new novel, The Barricade, and I can finally post this review! Yippee! When the world threatened to end, a select few went into an underground complex and left those above to survive any way they could. Scientist Faith Hamilton and her grown daughter…
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Always Beside You – by Damir Salkovic
First, the dream. Now this message from the mouth of a stranger. It was too much of a coincidence for Nate Carver, and has him dropping everything to help a woman he hasn’t even thought about in eight years, not since the overdose that almost took Cathy Deveraux’s life. The prison escape of Thomas Elbert…
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A Misfortune of Lake Monsters – by Nicole M. Wolverton
Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil’s Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college—but that’s impossible now that she’s expected to impersonate the town’s lake monster for the rest of her life. Her family has been secretly keeping the tradition of Old Lucy, the famed (and very fake) monster of Lake Lokakoma, alive for generations, all to…
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Hilltop House – by S.Q. McGrath
Hilltop House always remembered its first, how closely it watched them, how much they meant to it . . . and what it did to them. But Hilltop House has yet to find another like its first, until she moves in. Cora is angry, and weird, and entirely unsuspecting. Her mother hides secrets, just as…
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Black Sheep – by Rachel Harrison
Nobody has a “normal” family; but Vesper Wright’s is truly… something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back―mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep. Inside is an invitation to the wedding of…
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