Category: Book Reviews
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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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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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