Category: Book Reviews
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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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The Devil Device – by Dave Jeffery – Book Review
The coastal town of Dorsal Finn is no stranger to the fantastic and the bizarre. A dark heart beats beneath its cobblestone skin and the rhythm is a beacon for all things devious and evil. Only its reluctant sentinel, Beatrice Beecham, keeps the town free from the terrible entities that it attracts. Now Dorsal Finn…
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Black City Skyline and Darker Horizons – by Barry Lee Dejasu – Book Review
Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe! Today I’m reviewing a short story collection, and a first read from this particular author. I read A LOT of short story collections, both from my own personal TBR and from review requests. I get so many requests to review short story collections, you wouldn’t believe. I guess it’s a…
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The Laughing Policeman – by Elizabeth J. Brown – Book Review
A blood debt gone wrong. A demon unleashed. Thirty-four years ago, a supernatural horror was summoned into the world, leaving nothing but mutilated corpses in its wake… Until the day the trail went cold. Now it’s back, and the fate of a young Traveller girl and her mother hang in the balance. Their only hope…
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The Little Exorcist – by Alys Daddi – Book Review
Molly’s dad is a practical joker, a proper wind-up merchant, his sense of humour holds no bounds and when, what he thinks is a trick at his expense backfires he is left feeling a little unusual. His silliness stoops to new and more juvenile levels but strangely he has no memory of his bad behaviour.…
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The Glut – by Matthew Cash – Book Review
FREE YOURSELFWhat would you do if you found out your compulsions were not your fault?That something else had been controlling you all along?What would you do if you discovered there was a dark part of you, a part of humanity, that was put there by an entity older than the stars? Vince is binge-eating himself…
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Zombies! – by Paul Kane – Book Review
Dark bleatings my lovely goaties! Today I’m reviewing a zombie collection from Paul Kane, a writer I’m sure many of you know and love. I didn’t realise how long it had been since I last read a zombie book until I picked this one up… or how much I had been missing them. Despite the…
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