Category: Book Reviews
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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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Dusk Bunnies – by Terry Miller
Three female vampires have the perfect set up—they trade sex for blood. Of course, the proposition doesn’t always go as smoothly as they’d like. But they have a remedy for that which involves body disposal courtesy of the pet they keep in their basement. Things are going well until an acquaintance from their past rolls…
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How to Sell a Haunted House – by Grady Hendrix
Every childhood home is haunted, and each of us are possessed by our parents. When their parents are both killed in a car accident, Louise and Mark Joyner are devastated but nothing can prepare them for how bad things are about to get. The two siblings are almost totally estranged, and couldn’t be more different.…
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Murder in the Monashee Mountains: A Travis Daniels Investigation – by JP Behrens
After barely escaping the haunted streets of Arkham and Miskatonic University, Travis Daniels is on the run with his ward, Leslie Owens. Seeking refuge in the remote woods of Monashee Mountain, their lives take another dark turn when they witness a brutal, savage murder. Now, they’re thrust into a web of deceit, danger, and old…
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For the Road – by Stark Holborn
Lost, wounded and alone, Jesse Bartos wanders the wilderness with no memory of how he came to be there. He only knows that he is in danger, and that the suitcase in his hand is worth more than his life. At the point of death, he happens upon the abandoned railroad station of Dawn’s Holt,…
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Tick Town – by Christopher A. Micklos
Tomahawk Hollow has a huge problem. Slaughtered livestock. Disappearing townsfolk. And something in the woods hungry for blood. When a young reporter and her boss investigate, they discover a band of giant mutant ticks have made the rural Wisconsin tourist town their feeding ground. Now, with the annual Harvest Moon Jubilee about to begin, Emmaline…
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The Reformatory – by Tananarive Due
Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist…
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A Girl’s Gotta Eat: Suffering Sequence: Book One – by Elizabeth Lynn Blackson
What does a young woman do with the bucket of hate she carries around from her abusive childhood? Lucy is about to find out. What does a man do when his faith in the security of his nation crumbles? FBI Special Agent Javier Torres is about to find out. And when shape-shifting, man-eating daemons are…
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