Category: Book Reviews
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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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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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