Category: Goat Leader
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The Best Horror Indeed – Advance Review: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seventeen
Dark bleatings, my very best tribe! If you’re “in” the horror scene, you will no doubt be familiar with Ellen Datlow, and the extraordinary annual buzz about which stories make her Best Of list each year. To have one of your stories named in a Datlow list is considered an honour, and it’s easy to…
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ARC Book Review: The Night Ship – by Alex Woodroe
An apocalyptic world turned into a pitch-black sea of nothingness, but smuggler Rosi and her crew of survivors aren’t alone. Something hungry lurks below… Driving a logging truck though the Romanian mountains, smuggler Rosi and her crew come across a radio signal that hints at impending doom. As the world goes completely dark, their truck…
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The Best Horror Books I Read in 2025
Dark bleatings, my beautiful tribe. I read a whole bunch of fantastic novellas and novels last year, and now I’m going to tell you what my top 10 in each of those categories are. They’re in no particular order except for my favourites. I’m including links in case you’d like to find the books (I…
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The End of the World As We Know It – does this anthology honour our Uncle Steve?
Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel –…
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‘Rot Land’ is Here!
Welcome to Rot Land — where respectability is a thin coat of paint and the house next door might be eating itself alive.Mad Mary hoards rubbish like relics. Tim communes with invisible authorities. Barra the Soul Scrubber tries to boil his sins away in a pot he can’t climb out of. This is suburbia cracked…
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The Best Horror Anthologies and Collections I Read in 2025
Dark Bleatings, and Happy New Year! I read many books last year, and now I’m listing my favourites in each category for you. In today’s listicle (is that what you call this?!), I’ve got my Top 10 Anthologies and my Top 10 Collections of 2025 for you. These are in no particular order, except for…
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Let’s Start 2026 with a Review of Something Epic! King Sorrow – by Joe Hill
Bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings. But his idyll – and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot – is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare and valuable books from the exceptional college library. Trapped and desperate,…
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I Read 517 Short Stories Last Year. Here are the Best 25…
Dark bleatings, Happy New Year, yay it’s 2026, and yippee ki yay motherfu**ers. I read 517 short stories across multiple anthologies and collections last year, and that’s not even including stories in anthologies I was somehow involved in (conflict of interest and all that). Nothing makes me happier than reflecting on all the great stuff…
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I Don’t Know if I’m Dying to Visit This Motel, or Desperate to Never Find It…Stories From the Motel Sick – edited by Michael Allen Rose
Stories From The Motel Sick is a genre-bending anthology featuring new stories from authors of horror, bizarro fiction, sci-fi, erotica, noir, and so much more. Each story takes place at the Motel Sick, a strange, metaphysical motel on the edge of a highway leading to nowhere in particular. Inside, you’ll find criminals and lovers, aliens,…
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I’ll Be Gripping my Soul with Both Hands From Now On…
MANCHESTER 1888 Through the darkness of a mid-winter nightshift, the flicker of a candle flame illuminates the exhaustion in Dr Warren Carter’s eyes; memories of a painful surgery and the fine line of human frailty haunt his every thought. A nightcap with the beautiful Rosie is just the tonic he needs. What should’ve been a…
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