Category: Goat Leader
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Video: Author Interview with Jonathan Butcher and Michelle Von Eschen

Dark bleatings everyone! Click on the pic to watch the YT video!
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Video: My Top 10 Horror Books of 2024 So Far – Midway Summary!

Dark bleatings everyone! Click on the pic to watch the YT video, where I talk about my Top 10 Horror Books of 2024 so far!
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This Island Earth – by Dale Bailey

Inspired by the drive-in epics of the 1950s, the stories in This Island Earth marry the exuberance of Eisenhower-era sci-fi movies to nuanced examinations of love, family, fear, and loss―without leaving the robots and ray guns behind. These stories abound with the bug-eyed monsters and irradiated highschoolers you remember from the late-night Creature Feature. But…
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The Folly – by Gemma Amor

Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother, and has spent the last six years campaigning for his release from prison. Finally he is set free, but they can no longer live in the house that was last decorated by her mother’s blood. Salvation comes in the form of a tall, dark and…
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Video: The Abominable Book Club Unboxing (June 2024)

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Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud – by Lee Murray

Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman ‘falls’ from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver. All are women of the Chinese diaspora, who came to Aotearoa for a new…
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A Vindication of Monsters

In 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary Shelley, creator of one of the most important books in literature: Frankenstein;…
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The Ruins – by Scott Smith – Book Review

Craving an adventure to wake them from their lethargic Mexican holiday before they return home, four friends set off in search of one of their own who has travelled to the interior to investigate an archaeological dig in the Mayan ruins. After a long journey into the jungle, the group come across a partly camouflaged…