Category: Goat Leader
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Folk Horror at its Finest || Darker Days – by Thomas Olde Heuvelt || Book Review
In Lock Haven, a quiet little town in Washington State, there is a very special street. Bird Street. The residents of Bird Street are all successful, wealthy, healthy and happy. And their children are all well-mannered and smart and high achievers. At least they are for eleven months of the year. In November, however, the…
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Rachel Harrison is a Genius || Kiss Slay Replay – by Rachel Harrison || Book Review
Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this monstrous, gripping, heartfelt time loop horror story about love, loss, and moving on from the New York Times bestselling author of Cackle and Play Nice. Will this nightmare ever end? It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend—the venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in…
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Be Careful Who You Make Friends With! || The Witching House – by John Everson || Book Review
Angry and alone, Gianna tests urban legend and writes the name Madelyn in blood on the mirror of the Witching House. When the ghost actually answers, she gains an unexpected friend. But soon Gianna learns friendship isn’t what the dead girl wants the most. Madelyn wants revenge for her murder. Can Gianna stop her before…
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What a Fun Concept for Siblings || The Porcelain Sisters – by Daryl Gregory || Book Review
A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant — and literally porcelain — sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies, including a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses. In his newest adventure from the world of Harrison the Monster Detective, Daryl Gregory (Spoonbenders)…
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This Must Be the First Book Shop I’d Warn You Away From!! || Steal Me – by Helen Grant || Book Review
Rowan Byrne hasn’t stolen anything for ages—not since she started to straighten her life out after a personal tragedy. But the volume she’s just picked up in the new bookshop in town seems to want her to steal it. The text is very persuasive. There’s a book for everyone in Legends—a book that will encourage…
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‘One Last Laugh in the Dark’ is a Perfectly Ironic Title for the new book from Matthew R. Davis
Dark bleatings, everyone! This isn’t a book review because I work as an assistant for the press that has just released this novella and I don’t want to be accused of using this separate platform to bolster the marketing. However, I LOVE this author’s work (I interviewed him years ago, and you can find that…
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Things are About to Get…Wyrd || House of Wyrd – by Maura McHugh || Book Review
Aly Wyrd, famous art provocateur and magician, is missing on the eve of the opening of her visionary project, the Path of Illumination. It falls to her estranged daughter, Pallas Trismegistus Morrigan Aylward, to navigate through dream, memory and arcane mystery to revisit her history with her mother in ’80s London and ’90s Ireland until…
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Liminal Space and the Most Monstrous of Us || Monstrous – by Bryan Smith || Book Review
Accompanied by an unsuspecting target, an aspiring serial killer journeys to a remote mountainous location at the same time as a woman looking to bury evidence of a heinous crime walks the same trail. A sudden unnatural storm transports them to a mist-shrouded field that rolls on for countless miles in all directions. A towering…
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A Perfect Companion to The Silent Companions! || House of Splinters – by Laura Purcell || Book Review
Not every house is a home… Belinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her anxious mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled. His death means she, her husband Wilfred and their children can relocate and finally begin to create their own happy…
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Witch – by Iain Rob Wright || Book Review
Deep in Devil’s Ditch lies a woman in chains. Her name is Rose. And something’s very wrong with her… Ashley and Jude are used to being hunted. As teenage outcasts, they know what it means to run. But when a gang of bullies drives them into the woods, they discover something far worse than anything…
