Category: Book Reviews
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At Dark, I Become Loathsome – by Eric LaRocca
From the Bram Stoker Award®-finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, a grim yet gentle, horrifying yet hopeful tale of grief, trauma, and love. If you’re reading this, you’ve likely thought that the world would be a better place without you. A single line of text, glowing in the…
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Laid to Unrest – Anthology Edited by P.J. Blakey-Novis
From the people who brought you Castle Heights, Sweet Little Chittering, and Unceremonious, comes a new horror anthology of intertwining tales… Laid to Unrest. On the day of the funeral for self-made millionaire Morton Clark a motley crew of mourners gather to say their farewells, but no-one is an innocent as they first seem. Whilst the circumstances around Morton’s…
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Into the Wild Green Yonder – by Peter Crowther and Tim Lebbon
With their first child on the way, Sally and Gordon are looking for their forever home, and they think they’ve found it in 44 North Drive. It needs some work, sure. Walls are crumbling, carpets are rotten, and the plumbing is leaky. But it’s the large overgrown garden that excites them most. Though there is…
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Dark Worlds We Wander – by Kristin Kirby
Unfolding through fourteen short stories and one novella, DARK WORLDS WE WANDER offers a fresh take on Earth’s last, desperate survivors who will do whatever it takes to keep from starving through a nuclear winter; a woman trapped in her laundry room who battles something terrifying in the clothes dryer; a convicted criminal who picks…
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The Dead Children’s Playground – by James Kaine
A cemetery filled with innocents. A ghostly chill in the air. Will a short walk through the woods awaken a dark power? Kylie Macklin is eager to live a normal life. Freshly moved from Florida to Alabama and finally in remission from cancer, the optimistic nine-year-old is used to dodging her overprotective mom’s warnings. So…
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Neighbourly Mischief – by Cristina Mirzoi
In this peculiar story, we follow the lives of a few distinctive individuals living in an old apartment building, ranging from angsty youth to middle-aged couples and senior citizens. Sorrows, insecurities, longings, frustrations, and, above all, secrets are concealed within each of these characters in an intricate maze of dysfunctional yet humorous relationships. The intrusion…
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Chopping Spree – by Angela Sylvaine
Eden Hills, Minnesota, is famous for two things: its lucrative, ‘80s-inspired fashion mall, and a missing-persons epidemic that has plagued the town’s youth and confounded officials for years. High school junior, Penny, has grown skeptical of the town’s official stance on the disappearances, but has so far kept that to herself. See, she just started her…
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Price Manor: The House That Seeks – by Mocha Pennington
A thousand revengeful spirits.Five perfect strangers.One malignant house. Cassandra, a former social media influencer, believed she had healed from the trauma she endured two years ago when abducted by an obsessed fan and held captive in an isolated cabin amid the vast woods of Mystic Hills…until the nightmares began. Her nights are plagued with terrifying…
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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…
