Category: Goat Leader
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Dark Duets – by Penny Jones and Teika Marija Smits || Book Review

Dark Duets 1: SUGAR AND SPICE BY PENNY JONES Once upon a time there were two sisters, but their life was anything but a fairytale. THE UNSILENCING BY TEIKA MARIJA SMITSA mysterious ailment strikes a schoolful of children, rendering them mute and motionless. One mother takes it into her own hands to find the evil truth behind…
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My Top 10 Scream Kings

Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe. Last month I spent a lot of time thinking about my Favourite Unconventional Scream Queens, which got me to thinking about who I think of as Scream Kings. I think any regular parameters for this are already out the window as there isn’t really such thing as a “Final Guy”…
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Eric LaRocca Has Done It Again! || Wretch || Book Review

After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khaw—a man with the ability to let those who are grieving have one last…
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IT’S BACK!!!!!! Come Sing for the Harrowing (by Dan Coxon) is being re-released and I’m very excited about it || Book Review

From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman. A young man working at a tourist attraction is singled out for unholy transformation, a gang of burglars are ambushed with something unworldly when they attempt to…
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The Best Horror Books with Multiple POV’s

Dark bleatings, my lovelies. One of my recent, major favourite ways to be hooked into a story is when it’s told from two or more perspectives. When done for specific reasons, I find this not only effective but highly entertaining, and it always makes books harder to put down. In no particular order, here are…
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Woodland Peeping *Shudders* || ‘The Watcher in the Woods’ by Charlotte Bond || Book Review

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction. Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe. I finally had time to sit down and enjoy one of my several unread ‘Shadows’ books, so I picked this little beauty by Charlotte Bond. The theme of this is fairy tales,…
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Top 10 Best Movie Monsters

Dark bleatings, my beautiful tribe. Today, I thought it might be fun to show you some not so beautiful things, in the form of my very favourite movie monsters! For the purpose of this list, I am not including anything that fits neatly into a “type”, such as vampires, werewolves, zombies, etc. Before we dive…
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This Book Almost Made Me Cry || Book Review || Bombyx – by R.C. Matheson and Mick Garris

Peter Mitchell graduated rehab yesterday. Happy to be home, back to his wife, children, work as a software designer. Eager to make amends. But it all begins to feel inside out. Upside down. Like people despise him. Stares execute. Conversations stab. Or is it all is his mind?His wife, children and dog soon loathe and…
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Pssst…I Just Heard About A Zombie Novel I Somehow Hadn’t Encountered!

Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe and fellow undead foe lovers. Word on the street is that there’s actually a zombie novel that slipped under my radar, so here I am, making sure it’s on yours before you miss out! Vinegar Bend, Mississippi – 1861: The Civil War…a name read in school books to describe the…
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I Am Almost Speechless || Book Review || Cannibal S***s 4 – by Matthew J. Gleason

We’re on the fourth entry of a horror franchise that doesn’t exist. Grace is a teenager who has survived her family being murdered by genetically engineered cannibal sluts. Now she finds herself on Slut Island where her great aunt Dr. Amy Hartnell is studying the slut monsters in order to put an end to the…