Category: Goat Leader
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To Those Willing to Drown – by Mark Matthews

When Jewel Jordan dies from cancer, her father’s wish is to scatter the ashes inside their beloved Torch Lake. But after the grieving mother hears her daughter’s voice coming from inside the urn, how can she let the ashes go? Especially after a mysterious pastor begs her to keep them and promises to reunite her with…
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Blood Cypress – by Elizabeth Broadbent

No one cares when Lila Carson’s ten-year-old brother Beau disappears. He can’t speak. He throws tantrums. He’s a useless Carson, one of those kids in a broken-shuttered house that lost its glory when his father died. When the sheriff and his good ol’ boy deputies show up to investigate, they eye up Lila and call…
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The Harvest – by Alex Hunter

Something is coming for the children. Tim Waverly, a young teacher, escapes London’s spiralling housing costs by becoming a live-in caretaker at an abandoned orphanage. But his arrival triggers a series of frightening events. An ancient evil has awakened. A new Harvest has begun. As Tim and those around him become engulfed in a dark…
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The Historian – by Elizabeth Kostova

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the…
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Enigma Exposed – by Eric Brown and Keith Brooke

Pinto, Mags and Sorensen, attempting to trace the whereabouts of Pinto’s rebel relative, Gregor, embark on a perilous journey across the face of the planet, pursued by Enforcers, attacked by aliens, and meeting a collection of strange humans. What they learn on the outside will make them question everything they thought true, as revelation follows…
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Scorpion Girl – by Janeen Webb

Dark bleatings, my sting-tailed tribe! Today, I’m talking about a book that will seem like an odd choice for me because *gasp* it’s not quite horror, but I absolutely LOVED it. We all have our demons. In Scorpion Girl, women of all ages face theirs. From battlefields to bedrooms, in these stories nothing is what it…
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Myrrh – by Polly Hall

Myrrh has a goblin inside her, a voice in her head that tells her all the things she’s done wrong, that berates her and drags her down. Desperately searching for her birth-parents across dilapidated seaside towns in the South coast of England, she finds herself silenced and cut off at every step. Cayenne is trapped…
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Matthew R. Davis: Author Spotlight and Interview

Dark bleatings, my mysterious tribe! Next up in my mini series of interviewing creators involved with Strange New Moons (the recent werewolf anthology I co-edited), we have Matthew R. Davis. Now, after some concern about my last interviewee, I should state that Matthew is well and willing to be here for my quest…. …..I’m back.…
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Somer Canon: Author Spotlight and Interview

Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe! Since starting this website and the accompanying YouTube channel, I’ve come to realise that – though I love every part – my favourite goating activity is conducting author interviews. From long-time idols to people I’ve just discovered, getting to talk to the people that write the stories I love is…
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The Ravening – by Daniel Church

Jenna’s life has always been a fight. From the traumatic and mysterious loss of her mother on a dark woodland road when she was fifteen, to the abusive and controlling boyfriend she’s recently escaped, she has learned that trust hurts you in the end. Now Jenna’s found what she hopes is happiness with her new…