Category: Book Reviews
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Dark Duets – by Penny Jones and Teika Marija Smits || Book Review
Dark Duets 1: SUGAR AND SPICE BY PENNY JONES Once upon a time there were two sisters, but their life was anything but a fairytale. THE UNSILENCING BY TEIKA MARIJA SMITSA mysterious ailment strikes a schoolful of children, rendering them mute and motionless. One mother takes it into her own hands to find the evil truth behind…
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Eric LaRocca Has Done It Again! || Wretch || Book Review
After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khaw—a man with the ability to let those who are grieving have one last…
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IT’S BACK!!!!!! Come Sing for the Harrowing (by Dan Coxon) is being re-released and I’m very excited about it || Book Review
From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman. A young man working at a tourist attraction is singled out for unholy transformation, a gang of burglars are ambushed with something unworldly when they attempt to…
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Woodland Peeping *Shudders* || ‘The Watcher in the Woods’ by Charlotte Bond || Book Review
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction. Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe. I finally had time to sit down and enjoy one of my several unread ‘Shadows’ books, so I picked this little beauty by Charlotte Bond. The theme of this is fairy tales,…
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This Book Almost Made Me Cry || Book Review || Bombyx – by R.C. Matheson and Mick Garris
Peter Mitchell graduated rehab yesterday. Happy to be home, back to his wife, children, work as a software designer. Eager to make amends. But it all begins to feel inside out. Upside down. Like people despise him. Stares execute. Conversations stab. Or is it all is his mind?His wife, children and dog soon loathe and…
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I Am Almost Speechless || Book Review || Cannibal S***s 4 – by Matthew J. Gleason
We’re on the fourth entry of a horror franchise that doesn’t exist. Grace is a teenager who has survived her family being murdered by genetically engineered cannibal sluts. Now she finds herself on Slut Island where her great aunt Dr. Amy Hartnell is studying the slut monsters in order to put an end to the…
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This Kind of Body Horror Freaks Me Out || Book Review || Rat-She – by Stephanie Ellis
When bombs were dropped across the globe as part of a world-wide agreement to cull the human population, the aftershocks triggered unbelievable horrors. Fallout from radiation and pressure waves caused disfigurements and mutations: inorganic matter melding with flesh, human and animal compressing into one, grotesqueries crawling across the blasted landscape, condemned as outcasts forever. But…
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Is This the Best Sequel Ever? || Book Review || Cold Snap – by Angela Sylvaine
WORMS GONE WILD! It’s 1998, and the town of Demise, North Dakota, is recovering from the Meteor Murders, hundreds of deaths caused by alien worms but blamed on a mass poisoning by a doomsday cult. While nineteen-year-old Realene’s heroic actions saved the lives of many, she wants nothing more than to hide from the world and…
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In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Scream…About Zombies || Book Review || ‘The Darkness Within’ by Sam Stone
ZOMBIES ON A SPACESHIP! Chief Engineer Madison Whitehawk suspects foul play when a series of small anomalies occur aboard the ark ship Freedom. But Madison’s fears are nothing compared to the impending disaster heading their way. As the team of scientists, engineers and crew take their precious colonist cargo towards New Earth a deadly parasite…
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Dead Red and Razor – by Tim Lebbon || Book Review
NYT-bestselling author Tim Lebbon joins Bad Hand Books with a new crime novella! Haunted by the voice of her dead lover, assassin “Dead” Red Virgilio is out for vengeance against former colleague, “Razor” Bill McClintock. And she’s driving into the heart of the Nevada desert to get it. But others who are just as dangerous…
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