Category: Book Reviews
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There’s “Something Peculiar” About Great British Horror 10…
GREAT BRITISH HORROR 10 continues the annual series showcasing the best in modern British horror. Every year, the series will feature ten British authors, plus one international guest contributor, telling tales of this sceptred isle. The 2025 edition, SOMETHING PECULIAR, features eleven more previously unpublished stories from authors at the very top of their game.…
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Depart Depart – by Sim Kern
When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the Dallas Mavericks’ basketball arena. Though he finds community among other queer refugees, Noah fears his trans and Jewish identities put him at risk with certain “capital-T” Texans. His fears take form when he starts seeing visions of his great-grandfather Abe,…
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A Light Most Hateful – by Hailey Piper
Mona Awad’s Bunny meets Stranger Things in this mind-bending and terrifying examination of female friendship and the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love, from the Bram Stoker award winning author of Queen of Teeth. Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel…
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A Broken Darkness – by Premee Mohamed
It’s been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void. Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity – including his former friend Johnny. Right on cue, the unveiling…
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Return to Innsmouth: A Strange Aeons Adventure: Book 1 – by Henry Hinder
Are you a fan of H.P. Lovecraft’s spine-tingling horror, hilarious comedies like What We Do in the Shadows, and Sherlock Holmes-style detective work? If so, then you won’t want to miss Return to Innsmouth – a witty, irreverent short novel that lovingly blends cosmic horror with a healthy dose of dark humor. Join the unlikely duo of Bill…
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Exploring the Labyrinth: Volume One – by Kit Power
On the surface, Kit Power seems like a successful horror writer – three-time BFA finalist, two-time Splatterpunk winner, and author of the celebrated My Life in Horror essay series. But that affable facade hides a terrible secret: he never read the works of Brian Keene on initial publication. Podcaster. Philanthropist. Stoker winner. World Horror Grandmaster. Brian. Fucking.…
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Live Wire – by Kyle Toucher
Black Magic Meets Big Tech. What could go wrong? Just about everything. Kyle Toucher’s debut novel Live Wire rams you headlong into a fast-moving SciFi/Cosmic Horror/Action thriller, set not only in the desolate pre-internet world of 1993, but the endless night of the New Mexico desert. One harrowing situation follows another as our cast of strangers find…
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Gifts Between Us – by C.C. Adams
Elderly Londoner Augustus has lived a long, miserable life. Having driven his few remaining loved ones away years ago, he now whiles away his time drinking rum and hoping for the end. One night his death wish is nearly granted by a mugger, but a local youth called Michael intervenes. Much to the old man’s…
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The Companions We Lose – by Micah Castle
After his divorce, Michael had one anchor remaining: Zylo, his beloved dog and only companion. But when Zylo’s found disemboweled outside his home, his world unravels. The police dismiss his case, but Michael refuses to let his death be in vain. Overtaken by grief and rage, he searches for answers only to discover something darker…
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The Witch of Willow Sound – by Vanessa F. Penney
For readers of Our Wives Under the Sea and The Once and Future Witches comes a feminist gothic tale with a tough-as-nails female protagonist who must find her elderly aunt, long suspected of being a witch. A spooky, atmospheric, and fast-paced feminist tale about women called witches and the parts of our history we’d rather…
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