Category: Book Reviews
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30 Days of Night – by Tim Lebbon – Book Review
The Official Novelization of The Terrifying Film In the sleepy and secluded town of Barrow, Alaska — the northernmost settlement in North America — its citizens are preparing for the annual coming of the Dark, when the sun will set for more than thirty consecutive days and nights.But this year, the Dark will bring something…
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Naked & Famous – by Elizabeth Broadbent – Book Review
Sixteen-year-olds Harlan, Brooks, and Don’t-Call-Me-Tiffany-Sue T. S. have zilch to do during their summer in a podunk Southern swamp town. T. S., who’d give a lesser toe (or maybe pose in Playboy) to escape, hits on an if a bad tabloid can play cut-and-paste with Bigfoot photos, why can’t they serve up the real thing?…
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NSFW – by David Scott Hay – Book Review
An experimental horror-lit set in the near future about connection and isolation. The Office meets A Clockwork Orange. Set in the world of social media moderators, @Sa>ag3 and @Jun1p3r must survive their first 90 days to qualify for benefits and a life-changing mystery bonus. As they flag a nonstop torrent of the most heinous [NSFW] videos, their…
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Strange Frequencies – by Richard Clive – Book Review
A World War One fighter pilot tortured by guilt, a New York mobster desperately counting the hours until his execution, an elderly man losing his mind in a decrepit nursing home… all must face their regrets and the notion that we build our own Hell, brick by brick. Richard Clive’s chilling debut collection features eleven…
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The Hurricane Caged Inside of Her – by Erik Hofstatter – Book Review
Sirin AKA Tristan Grieves is a death bringer. A borrower of lives with a loose moral compass that points to Liene. A continent eater and the daughter of the Alkonost. He travelled everywhere. Now he must travel in her. Cannibalise her energy. They chase each other from door to door, star to star. Across borderless…
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No One Gets Out Alive – by Adam Nevill – Book Review
Darkness lives within …Cash-strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation, Stephanie Booth feels she can fall no further. So when she takes a new room at the right price, she believes her luck has finally turned. But 82 Edgware Road is not what it appears to be. It’s not only the eerie atmosphere…
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The Last Day and the First – by Tim Lebbon – Book Review
My name is Rose, and I’m the last woman left alive. So begins this novella that follows Rose’s final day, but it is also the first day of a future that few could have imagined. Dark bleetings everyone! So, those who know me know that I’m getting increasingly obsessed with the work of Tim Lebbon.…
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Nature’s Perfume – by Mark Towse – Book Review
Four close friends arrange a trip to the Amazon, all aware this is likely to be their last group outing before the responsibilities of adulthood take them in separate directions. High on adrenaline, plans for an early night before the hike quickly fade, an overindulgence in liquor and drugs setting the stage for the strangest…
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The Cimmerians – by Theresa Jacobs – Book Review
When Emersyn fled the big city for a quieter life in the Midwest, she left all her troubles behind – or so she thought. She quickly discovers her quaint new home has a past of its own. Ten years prior a young woman killed herself inside the front door. Since that fateful day, the locals…
