Category: Book Reviews
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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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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…