Category: Book Reviews
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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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Frost Bite – by Angela Sylvaine
Remember the ’90s? Well…the town of Demise, North Dakota doesn’t, and they’re living in the year 1997. That’s because an alien worm hitched a ride on a comet, crash-landed in the town’s trailer park, and is now infecting animals with a memory-loss-inducing bite-and right before Christmas! Now it’s up to nineteen-year-old Realene and her best friend…
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A Battle Against Demons – by Kjell-Vidar Ahman Teig
“A Battle Against Demons is a story about growing up, loss and grief. Anxiety. On the surface, it’s a classic horror mystery, and a darn good one at that. But in the depths of the story lies an even more fascinating family drama – a rural tragedy – that takes the reader on a frightening…
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Life and Death – by Stephenie Meyer
There are two sides to every story….You know Bella and Edward, now get to know Beau and Edythe.When Beaufort Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edythe Cullen, his life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With her porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edythe is…
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Conjured Darkness – by Michael Jess Alexander
In this short story collection, award-winning writer Michael Jess Alexander serves up a morbid menagerie of aliens, cultists, murderers, and more. Dark bleatings, my dark tribe! I’m here today reviewing a short story collection from Michael Jess Alexander. Let’s take it story by story! Quiet Mimicry Hunter, as far as he knows, is the last…
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