Category: Book Reviews
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We Are Always Tender with Our Dead – by Eric LaRocca
The lives of those residing in the isolated town of Burnt Sparrow, New Hampshire, are forever altered after three faceless entities arrive on Christmas morning to perform a brutal act of violence—a senseless tragedy that can never be undone. While the townspeople grieve their losses and grapple with the aftermath of the attack, a young teenage boy…
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The Original’s Rage – by David Watkins
For ten years, Captain Peter Knowles has been at the front line of Britain’s defence against the wolf threat. Attacks have been on the decline and wolf sightings have decreased. However, a botched mission in London reveals a new threat. This wolf pack has information Knowles has tried to keep secret. They know Jack Stadler…
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Haussitter – by Brendan Norton
“…let’s just say if I wind up on the news, these are the people who ate me.” But Brian can handle it, duh. He may be flat broke…his best friend may call him ‘high empathy, no boundaries’…but he’s still from the Main Line, those über-wealthy suburbs of Philadelphia where old-money campuses lurk behind iron gates and half-acre…
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Dissonant Harmonies – by Bev Vincent and Brian Keene
Inspired by specially curated mixtapes, Bev Vincent and Brian Keene present two new spine-chilling novellas… As a blizzard descends upon the sleepy town of Bayport, Rhode Island, brothers Joey and Frank Shaw investigate the mysterious disappearances of several townsfolk. After the discovery of strange tunnels, tunnels that only Joey can see, the trio suspect something…
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The Mammoth Book of Zombies! – edited by Stephen Jones
The zombie – a soulless corpse raised from the grave to do its master’s bidding – may have had its factual basis in the voodoo ceremonies of the West Indies, but it is in fiction, movies, video games and comics that the walking dead have flourished. What makes a zombie? This Twentieth Anniversary Edition of…
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The Original’s Retribution – by David Watkins
Sergeant Peter Knowles has sworn to hunt down the remaining wolves in Britain and kill them all. He wants revenge for the massacre that took the lives of his friends. The wolf packs are scattered and scared, but someone new has started to galvanise them. Someone terrifying. Someone closer to Knowles than he could ever…
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Bedlam Trances – by Nicholas Wagner
From author Nicholas James Wagner (Razor Country) comes Bedlam Trances, nine unsettling meditations on crime and horror. In “Crown of Switchblades,” Irish gangsters involved in a turf war run afoul of a cult. “The Tragic Events Befalling Lizaveta” follows a 15th century inquisitor as he researches the disappearance of monks from a German monastery. And in…
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Children of Solitude – by Michael G. Williams
This Appalachian cosmic horror novel tells the story of a gay man who must return to his ancestral home in the mountains of Western North Carolina after his mother’s death to clean it out and sell it off. Navigating feelings of grief and anger, he finds her house is haunted and her nosy neighbors always…
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Remedy – by J.S. Breukelaar
Nat Jacobs finds herself alone and far from home in a mirror world, where she is herself . . .and not. She can remember being nightmarishly wrenched away from her child, unbearable pain, and then nothing. Traumatized and visibly scarred, dismissed as hysterical, irrational even—she finds others like her in a support group, all living…
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Fearsome Creatures – by Aliya Whiteley
Dark bleatings, my fearsome tribe! I’m reviewing another Black Shuck Shadows collection today, this time by Aliya Whiteley (who is new to me!). I REALLY enjoyed this micro-collection and – spoiler alert – I recommend it! The title implies that all of the stories are about…well…fearsome creatures. And they are! However, it’s not quite as…
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