Category: Goat Leader
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This Kind of Body Horror Freaks Me Out || Book Review || Rat-She – by Stephanie Ellis

When bombs were dropped across the globe as part of a world-wide agreement to cull the human population, the aftershocks triggered unbelievable horrors. Fallout from radiation and pressure waves caused disfigurements and mutations: inorganic matter melding with flesh, human and animal compressing into one, grotesqueries crawling across the blasted landscape, condemned as outcasts forever. But…
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Is This the Best Sequel Ever? || Book Review || Cold Snap – by Angela Sylvaine

WORMS GONE WILD! It’s 1998, and the town of Demise, North Dakota, is recovering from the Meteor Murders, hundreds of deaths caused by alien worms but blamed on a mass poisoning by a doomsday cult. While nineteen-year-old Realene’s heroic actions saved the lives of many, she wants nothing more than to hide from the world and…
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In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Scream…About Zombies || Book Review || ‘The Darkness Within’ by Sam Stone

ZOMBIES ON A SPACESHIP! Chief Engineer Madison Whitehawk suspects foul play when a series of small anomalies occur aboard the ark ship Freedom. But Madison’s fears are nothing compared to the impending disaster heading their way. As the team of scientists, engineers and crew take their precious colonist cargo towards New Earth a deadly parasite…
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My Top 10 Unconventional Scream Queens || Women in Horror Month Special

Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe. The term ‘Scream Queen’ undoubtedly conjures certain names; Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Neve Campbell, to name just a few. I think we all acknowledge and agree on the staples of the horror – particularly slasher – genre, and for what it’s worth, my favourite of the OG’s is Dee…
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Dead Red and Razor – by Tim Lebbon || Book Review

NYT-bestselling author Tim Lebbon joins Bad Hand Books with a new crime novella! Haunted by the voice of her dead lover, assassin “Dead” Red Virgilio is out for vengeance against former colleague, “Razor” Bill McClintock. And she’s driving into the heart of the Nevada desert to get it. But others who are just as dangerous…
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Advance Review || Beautiful, Once – by Mia Dalia || Oooooh boy, I LOVE this!

A dark dystopian survival thriller set on a secluded island paradise. From acclaimed author Mia Dalia comes a propulsive, character-driven horror novel that’s a chilling blend of high-tech utopia, isolation, and catastrophic consequences. When a controversial tech billionaire retreats from society, he constructs a private island designed to be the ultimate controlled experiment: a hand-selected…
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10 Horror Novel Recommendations for Mother’s Day

Dark bleatings, and Happy Mother’s Day, my lovely tribe! I thought it might be nice to celebrate this joyous event by scarring you for life with some hideous horror stories about pregnancy and parenthood. We begin with the numerous horrors of pregnancy…enjoy! This is about an actress who is stressed about her career and also…
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Don’t Get On the Wrong Side Of This Kid…|| ‘The Dwimfolk’ by James Brogden || Book Review

“They are, as far as I can tell, unfixed beings—changeable, shaped by the thoughts or feelings of people who live close to thin places like the Trod, and the way that we can make fixed forms. We take ore and heat it and hammer it and all of a sudden it’s a gold ring. We…
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The Hematophages Universe is Back in a Brand New Book || Book Release Announcement

In a galaxy riven by paranoid greed, profane forces marshal to consume humanity… – On an abandoned ice moon, broadcasts from a long-dead civilization warp both body and soul. – On a bizarre medical asteroid, a deranged physician discovers a gruesome “cure” for parasitic infection. – On a deep space derelict, time becomes utterly meaningless…
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Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories || Advanced Book Review || Elizabeth Broadbent is Awesome

Stay the hell out of the swamp — the backwater town of Lower Congaree recites it like an eleventh commandment. Lower Congaree is a backwater of a backwater, a poverty-stricken South Carolina town where nail salons come and go, but the Marine recruitment center never closes. Swamp surrounds it, and strangeness stretches back as far as…