Category: Book Reviews
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Pyres – by Kev Harrison
Angela has been a spirit painter for years. Channelling the spirits as they commit memories to canvas through her: childhood pets, favourite holiday locations, and sprawling homesteads. But now, something has changed. The paintings take a dark turn just as her sister, Becky, returns from Italy. People burnt alive, their smouldering remains a vivid, visceral…
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The Sun is a Circle Meant for Serving – by P.W. Feutz
Katrin has spent years grinding on the LA indie film scene, throwing herself into her work to make up for a sheltered upbringing by embittered ex-cultists. Now she’s crashing on her friend Nira’s couch, burnt out and fed up after one too many petty humiliations. She has no prospects, no confidence, and no future. Then,…
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New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural: Omnibus – edited by David A. Sutton
Back in 1971, British publisher Sphere Books issued New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural edited by David A. Sutton, one of many original paperback horror anthologies that were appearing in newsagents and bookshops up and down the country during that time. They followed it up the next year with another volume of new horror fiction before…
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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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