Category: Book Reviews
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Songs of Shadow, Words of Woe – by Matthew R. Davis
Thirteen morbidly melodic deep cuts from Matthew R. Davis, including the AustralasianShadows Award-winning “Steadfast Shadowsong” and the Shirley Jackson Award-nominatednovelette “Heritage Hill.” Dark bleatings, my Spooky Season Loving tribe! I’ve got another collection to talk about to day, ANOTHER brand, spanking new one, this time from the legend (as I consider him already), Matthew R.…
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I Was a Fashion School Serial Killer – by Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard
Sewing together serial killer horror and college drama feels so right—like slipping into a warm blood bath. Rennie Bethary has just been accepted into New York City’s most prestigious fashion school. Her designs are daring, edgy, and singular…and made of human flesh. Did we forget to mention Rennie is a serial killer who simply wants…
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Scary Stories to Tell at Night – anthology edited by Stephen Jones
The baker’s dozen of stories in this book will scare you! They may really terrify you! While you read these thirteen terror tales and stare at the diabolical drawings, don’t be surprised if they give you nightmares. You have been warned! However, if you are not afraid of monsters, ghosts, witches and other unspeakable things,…
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Into Wrack and Ruin – by Benjamin Kurt Unsworth
There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things – and one such corner is Little Hodbury. With a haunted tree, mutations in the heart of the British countryside, mythological creatures, and even menaces which plumb the depths of humanity’s worst instincts – nobody said living here was easy. Benjamin…
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Slewfoot – by Brom
Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast,…
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Halloweird – anthology edited by Johnny Mains
In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever since the days of the druidic Samhain, storytellers have observed the tradition of spinning tall, twisted tales of dark magic, spectral stalkings and unearthly creatures to mark this festival’s uniquely frightening aura. Collecting up…
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The Sound of the Dark – by Daniel Church
In 1983, experimental artist Tony Mathias began work on a new installation – it was to be a collage of visuals and sounds collected at an abandoned RAF base called Warden Fell. Various stories and rumours swirled around the place but Tony was interested only in the echoes of history. But soon after visiting the…
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The False Sister – by Briar Ripley Page
It’s 1994, and Jesse Greer’s troubled older sister, Crys, has run away from home. Shy, socially awkward Jesse assumes that she has returned to her old haunts in the big city – until he discovers Crys’ remains in the woods behind his family’s house. Traumatised, Jesse runs to his parents for help, only to find…
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An Echo of Children and Weapons: The new novel by Ramsey Campbell and film by Zach Cregger
Coral and Allan Clarendon have just moved to the seaside town of Barnwall with their young son Dean. If an uncommon number of children have died unnaturally in Barnwall throughout history, surely Dean must be safe with his parents. Could their house be a source of peril? Allan and Coral seem to think so, since…
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Love & Other Dead Things: A Collection – by Astrid Addams
From Astrid Addams, author of The Haunting of Hacket House and the Zombie Santa Claus series, comes Love & Other Dead Things: A Collection.Within these pages you will find eleven tales of terror, from the chilling to the outright horrifying. Nothing is ever as it seems as each story takes unexpected turns – vengeance is sought, blood is spilled, and…
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