Category: Book Reviews
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Advance Review || Beautiful, Once – by Mia Dalia || Oooooh boy, I LOVE this!
A dark dystopian survival thriller set on a secluded island paradise. From acclaimed author Mia Dalia comes a propulsive, character-driven horror novel that’s a chilling blend of high-tech utopia, isolation, and catastrophic consequences. When a controversial tech billionaire retreats from society, he constructs a private island designed to be the ultimate controlled experiment: a hand-selected…
-
Don’t Get On the Wrong Side Of This Kid…|| ‘The Dwimfolk’ by James Brogden || Book Review
“They are, as far as I can tell, unfixed beings—changeable, shaped by the thoughts or feelings of people who live close to thin places like the Trod, and the way that we can make fixed forms. We take ore and heat it and hammer it and all of a sudden it’s a gold ring. We…
-
Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories || Advanced Book Review || Elizabeth Broadbent is Awesome
Stay the hell out of the swamp — the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment. Lower Congaree is a backwater of a backwater, a poverty-stricken South Carolina town where nail salons come and go, but the Marine recruitment center never closes. Swamp surrounds it, and strangeness stretches back as far as…
-
Advance Book Review || Well…This is Squirmy! || ‘Crawl Space’ by Steve Toase
While recording abandoned vacuum postal systems in a small German city for the Durchsickern Institute, Rachael and Ben make a discovery that should be impossible. What at first seems like a measuring error reveals the dangerous and disturbing Crawl Space. Once they enter the Crawl Space, will Rachael and Ben make it out again in…
Happy Goat Horror 