Category: Book Reviews
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Pretend You Don’t See Her: The Invisible Woman – edited by Jill Girardi and Lydia Prime
The Invisible Woman: You barely notice her, sitting alone in the corner of the smoky bar. She walks through the streets at night, undetected until the moment she reveals her true self underneath that unremarkable form. We are your shapeshifters, your werewolves, your witchy women, your wicked little creatures and demonic entities, all hiding in…
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The Fisherman – by John Langan
In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours…
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Bluebells – by Leanbh Pearson
1917, Australia. In the aftermath of an alternate ending to the First World War, mass frontline casualties and a mysterious pandemic have decimated governments and the environment across much of Europe and the world, Australia included. Anna Baylon lives with her parents, scraping a meagre living in the drought-ridden, abandoned, and mostly isolated town of…
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Whisper Down the Lane – by Clay McLeod Chapman
Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murdered rabbit appears on his school’s playground, along with a birthday card for him. But Richard hasn’t celebrated his…
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The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale
Bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale is known for his gritty mysteries and his eccentric horror. As an eleven-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Joe Lansdale cooks up an inimitable recipe of Southern Gothic and Southern fried chicken that continues to delight his many fans and influence generations of horror legends. Lansdale mashes up crime, Gothic, mystery,…
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Old Black Water: Suffering Sequence Book Two – by Elizabeth Lynn Blackson
The World is infested with shapeshifting, man-eating daemons. Who can save us? Javier Torres, ex-FBI Agent, battles with his deteriorating health as supernatural forces assail him from all sides and daemonic power awakens in him. Madison ‘Lucy’ Carpenter knows the true name of a daemon, and dark forces stop at nothing to pry that information…
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The Haunting of Hacket House – by Astrid Addams
Some places don’t let go….Offered a lucrative job at the mysterious Hacket House, Jane agrees to travel across country to live at the mansion. After all, a fresh start is just what she needs. Besides, the remote house is a long way from the past she is still running from.Arriving at her new home, she…
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Alakazam – by Mia Dalia
What is the greatest trick of all—survival or disappearance? How far would you go to find out? In the heyday of Atlantic City, a man determined to rise above his circumstances and make a name for himself in a world hostile to people like him, finds his calling in the art of illusion. In the…
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Ringrock – by Stephen Barnard
Four students, travelling back to university from a friend’s party, crash their car in a desolate part of the Yorkshire moors. They stumble across a village that has no right being there: it isn’t on any map and has no means of communication with the outside world. It also doesn’t take kindly to strangers. Ruth…
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Baby Hawk – a novel in verse by Tom Epperson
Called simply “the female”, she is seventeen, one of the few survivors of a worldwide plague known simply as the Sickness—and quite possibly the last woman on earth. She lives in the mountains and forests of northern California, protected by her father. Life is hard, but they’re happy. Until one chilly autumn morning when a…
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