Category: Book Reviews
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Vanity Kills – by Erica Summers
Haunted by his tragic past, Jack LeBlanc, a scarred introvert living in the bayous of southern Louisiana, signs up for a clinical trial to test the miraculous new tissue-regeneration drug, Obsidian. It isn’t long until Jack and the other lab rats discover that the medication is not what was promised. They’re about to find out the…
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The Women in the Woods – by S.Q. McGrath
When Minn Bellamy and her teenaged son decide to spend their spring hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains, the last thing they expect is to stumble across a town so isolated it seems as if the supernatural has taken them back in time. Warm welcomes quickly turn ominous as mysterious circumstances force them to stay and…
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Colours – by C.S. Jones – Book Review
There is an urban legend in Wrexham which tells of something not quite human. Forever on the peripheries of society, he stalks the night, living amongst the shadows and feeding on the scraps. His sallow complexion and reddened grin led to the sinister moniker Colours the Clown. Stories forged around the campfires and graveyards of…
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An Exploration of Existential Indifference in a Void of Confidence – by Gavin Dillinger
In a bout of home buying anxiety, Joe purchases a house through an online real estate site without ever seeing the property. Once he moves in, however, he realizes the previous owner had posted pictures which conveniently excluded the portal to hell in the master bedroom. Riddled with self-doubt and a lack of purpose, Joe…
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The Menu – by David B. Bond – Book Review
Here’s the Menu. Open up and pick your poison. Not that we serve poison here.The Menu offers an array of fourteen deliciously disturbing tales of dining horror from around the world. Are you ready to discover the dark secrets behind the menus and the people who serve them?Beware: these stories are not for the faint…
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The Captivating Flames of Madness – by Jeff Parsons – Book Review
This book’s title comes from the reality that – like a moth to the flame – we’re all just one event, mishap, or decision away from things that could change our lives forever. What would you do if fate led you astray into a grim world where you encountered vengeful ghosts, homicidal maniacs, ancient gods,…
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The Salt Grows Heavy – by Cassandra Khaw – Book Review
After the murder of her husband and the fall of his empire, a mermaid and her plague doctor companion escape into the wilderness. Deep in the woods, they stumble across a village where children hunt each other for sport, sacrificing one of their own at the behest of three surgeons they call “the saints.” These…
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30 Days of Night: Fear of the Dark – by Tim Lebbon – Book Review
This is an all-new original novel based on the suspenseful and terrifying world of the comic book mythos 30 Days of Night, one of the most acclaimed horror sagas in recent years – an innovative and nationally bestselling book expansion of a nightmarish narrative that explores the nature of ancient evil existing – and thriving…
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The Root Witch – by Debra Castaneda – Book Review
A beautiful forest. A terrifying legend. It’s 1986. Two strangers, hundreds of miles apart, grapple with disturbing incidents in a one-of-a-kind quaking aspen forest. Knox is a new Forest Service ranger assigned to a vast, remote territory in Utah. Sandy is a producer fighting for her place in a tough TV newsroom. Both have heard…
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Delicate Condition – by Danielle Valentine – Book Review (and also a rant)
Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a gruelling IVF regime, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments are moved without her knowledge. She’s…
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