Category: Book Reviews
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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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Timeless: A Horror Anthology Through the Ages – edited by Laura Bilodeau
Does time heal all, or does it just repeat itself time and time again? Only time will tell. Travel through time with this star-studded line up featuring nine chilling stories of horror through the ages. Dark bleatings, my timeless tribe! Got a little snack of an anthology for you today, let’s skip right in! Cody…
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Pleasure Seekers – by Mike Krutz
A long hot night in the city, pregnant with possibilities. The devil itself, visiting our realm to claim an errant soul. A jaded rockstar summoning a goddess of judgment for the hell of it. An abandoned lot whose sordid history has been long forgotten. Paramilitary Christians who travel through time to rescue Jesus from his…
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A Song for the End – by Kit Power
Becoming an overnight sensation was supposed to be a good thing. Not for Bill Cutter, supply teacher and weekend rock star. His band, The Fallen, have just released their latest tune on social media, and it’s blowing up. So is the body count. Now, Bill faces a frantic race against time to stop the spread…
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The Feeding – by Anthony Ryan
Layla has spent her entire life in the Redoubt, one of the last bastions of humanity in a ravaged world. She’s never been beyond the Redoubt’s walls; only Crossers, with their special training and survival skills, are permitted to venture into the shadow-haunted wastelands. When Layla’s father falls ill, she knows she needs to find…
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Great Robots of History – by Tim Major
Long before the development of AI, humans created automatons in their own image. These sixteen weird tales explore magical and mechanical representations of humankind drawn from history and myth – from Odin carving humans from wood to Pygmalion’s living statue Galatea, from Julius Caesar’s animated wax effigy to the chess-playing Mechanical Turk, from the first…
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Black-Winged Angels – by Angela Slatter
With beautiful silhouette illustrations by the amazing multiple World Fantasy Award nominee Kathleen Jennings, Black-Winged Angels collects the nine reworked/reloaded fairytales for adult readers and the story ‘Flight’ from the original 2014 Ticonderoga Publications edition. In addition, this edition includes ‘The Mer-Pearl’ written specifically for the Dutch limited edition of the novel All the Murmuring Bones plus appendices including…
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Silver Nitrate – by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. Then her best friend Tristán introduces her to his new neighbour – cult horror director Abel Urueta, who promises that he can change all of their lives, if only…
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