Category: Goat Leader
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Wear Noise Blocking Headphones or You’re Doomed…|| The Siren of Groves Peak – by Glenn Rolfe || Book Review

Groves Peak, Maine is home to a dark secret. The successful lobstering community is ready for summer, but a murder at sea changes everything. People are dying in the small coastal town, and the lobstermen are on edge. Only one man knows the truth. His closet of skeletons is about to open, and no one…
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Well…This is a Scary Coven! || The Night Birds – by Christopher Golden || Book Review

Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak years ago, they never expected to see each other again. Now, as part of his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book lives aboard the Christabel, a 19th century freighter half-sunken off the shore of Galveston. Over many years, a…
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The Most Delightful Book I’ve Ever Read || Cackle – by Rachel Harrison || Book Review

All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her long-time boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching job that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. Her new home is picturesque and perfect. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment…
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Creature Feature Classics: Vol 2: Creatures of the Night – from Snake Bite Books || Book Review

Snake Bite Books presents Creature Feature Classics #2: Creatures of the Night. The second in an anthological series exploring some of the greatest monsters in horror history. As a follow-up from its predecessor, another collection of scarily brilliant authors joins forces to utilise the mythology of the vampire – taking us from an isolated community haunted…
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Bad Things Happen Here – by Mark Morris || Book Review

In 2004 a group of six students, who have newly arrived at university and quickly become friends, are beset by supernatural forces, which seem to centre around a 5th floor room in an otherwise innocuous student hall of residence. So insidious and terrifying is their ordeal that one of the six commits suicide, an act…
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Put Down the Rolling Pin! || Trad Wife – by Sarah Langan || Book Review

Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the “trad wife” queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven perfect children, and a life of from-scratch meals, she’s an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a lie. Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan…
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Build Your Own Monster – by Bryn Fortey & Johnny Mains || Book Review

Dedicated to the memory of Bryn Fortey (1937–2021) and with all proceeds going to Brecon Jazz charity, Build Your Own Monster!!! Four Horror Yarns by Bryn Fortey and Johnny Mains brings together the authors’ collective oeuvre, two previously published tales and two unpublished. Build Your Own Monster!!! Four Horror Yarns simply shows two authors, who loved each other…
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Disturbingly Relatable || Book Review || Disturbance – by Jenna Clake

Propulsive and wry, this razor-sharp debut is perfect for fans of Boy Parts and My Year of Rest and Relaxation explores all the ways that relationships and trauma can haunt our lives. As the sun sets on a feverishly hot July evening, a young woman spies on her teenage neighbour, transfixed by what looks like an occult ritual to…
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Maybe the Best Yet from C.C. Adams || Where the Roaches Are || Book Review

A healthy diet. Exercise. Sleep. Things to arm yourself with to promote good health and longevity. But no one goes through life unscathed when accidents, sickness and disease can happen. Still, you have the chance to fight back with treatment, medicine and rest. And with these things on your side, the odds of winning are…
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Exccuuuuse Me?! || Little Red Death – by A. K. Benedict || Book Review

ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU’VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE… DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of bedtime stories, the press…