Category: Goat Leader
-
The Dead Spot – by Angela Sylvaine

The dead spot: a corner drenched in shadow; an earthquake’s epicenter; the part of a roller coaster ride where the car rounds the final curve and all force dissipates, leaving those trapped beneath the safety bar feeling sick and hollow. From the beloved author of Frost Bite and Chopping Spree comes this heartbreaking horror collection about girls and women trapped…
-
5 Indie Horror Books – Mini-Reviews and Recommendations!

Dark bleatings, my curious, book-devouring tribe. I’ve never written a list or article like this one before, and thought it would be fun! I usually go ahead and write individual book reviews, but each of these has something a bit unique going on, so I thought I’d introduce you to them this way instead. For…
-
Writhe – by Erica Summers and H.M. Wohl

Garrett was an ordinary New Yorker, appeasing annoying neighbors and paying over-inflated rent for a dumpy apartment in Hell’s Kitchen. That is… Until the larvae hatched. As the end of the year draws near, Garrett unleashes his violent wrath upon the city of Manhattan. NYPD officers Luca Han and Mel Tredo are on a mission to find…
-
Darkheart – by S.Q. McGrath

One summer, four teens discover something they’d forever after wish they hadn’t about the wealthy resort that is the heart of their otherwise sleepy community. The horror of what happened has stayed with each as they’ve gone their own ways and attempted to make lives for themselves, but fifteen years later, they’re called back to…
-
Such Sharp Teeth – by Rachel Harrison

Dark bleatings, my howling tribe! I’ve been extremely enthusiastic about Rachel Harrison since reading her incredible religious horror novel, Black Sheep. Now I want to tell you about Such Sharp Teeth, in which she takes on werewolves. I sincerely hope that she hops around every subgenre I love because so far, she has been smashing…
-
Millionaires Day – Testimonial

Dark bleatings, my suspicious tribe! If you’ve been on social media at all recently, you’ll have no doubt heard about ‘Millionaires Day’ by now. In case you haven’t, to catch you up, the truth about what happened in the UK with all the cases in December 2019 is finally coming out. As with all “conspiracies”,…
-
The October Boys – by Adam Millard

HALLOWEEN, 1988A gang of twelve-year-old boys are trick-or-treating in London. Off in the distance, they hear the discordant chimes of an ice-cream truck. It seems strange to hear on a cold autumnal night, but their thoughts of maximizing their candy haul soon dismissed its incongruous melody… until they saw the rusting hulk idling in the…
-
Millionaires Day – the Truth is Finally Coming Out!

Dark, dark bleatings, my tribe! I don’t know if you’ve noticed but something is amiss. I was calling it ‘Case Day’ until I found out that my friend (and one of my favourite authors) Kit Power is releasing a book soon called ‘Millionaires Day’, about that day in 2019. My understanding is that this “story”…
-
Mother Death – by Paul O’Neill

The latest ‘Chiller’ from award-winning author, Paul O’Neill. Dottie Matheson is a selfish mother who has been granted the supernatural power to resurrect her son, Harold, whenever he dies. He uses this ability to shock audiences around Scotland by killing himself on stage over and over again, attracting fame and fortune. As his Circus Nightmare…
-
My Top 15 Short Horror Stories

Dark bleatings, my succinct tribe! I talk a lot about novels, collections, and authors, so I thought it might be fun to make a list of my favourite short horror stories. I have learned things. Dark things. Firstly, it’s REALLY hard to make a short list of my favourite shorts, and put them in any…