Category: Goat Leader
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A Sad Farewell to the Sinister Horror Company, One of Horror’s Most Treasured Indie Presses
Dark bleatings my dear friends. It’s Novella November, so I initially planned to post nothing but novella content this month. However, with the sad news that Sinister Horror Company is closing its doors, I’m compelled to break my own plan by writing this special post because Sinister Horror Company is special and it deserves as…
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The Yellow Wall-Paper – Book Suggestion for Novella November
Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor,…
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No One Rides For Free – by Judith Sonnet – Book Review
Jodi was driving her children to college when The Man got in their car.Uninvited, unwanted, and unhinged…The Man has no name, but he does have a gun… a knife… and a bag of “toys”.What starts as a forced ride into the desert escalates into a disturbing series of crimes and assaults.Jodi and her children will…
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Pomegranates – by Priya Sharma – Book Review
Pomegranates is a dystopian tale, where climate change is an all-too-real backdrop to the events of the novella. Persephone is in the Underworld, relating her family’s history to a human who’s found his way there. As events unfold, and we see the horror her anger has unleashed on the world, we’re drawn deeper and deeper…
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Swimming in the Sea of Trees – by Adam Millard – Book Review
A year after the death of their son, Dan and Kelly are visiting Aokigahara, the infamous Japanese forest. Dan knows of its past as the place where souls come to die, to commit suicide either through hopelessness, debt, or love. Kelly does not, but all that changes when the forest’s ghosts begin to reveal themselves.…
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Holly – by Stephen King – Book Review
Stephen King’s HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and…
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10 Halloween Horror Movie Recommendations
Dark bleatings everyone! Halloween is almost upon us, so of course I have some film recommendations for you for the big night! One simply does not enter into the pinnacle of Spooky Season without a great line-up of scary things to watch! In in the interest of not writing a list that will look like…
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Author Interview with Paul Flewitt
Dark bleatings everyone! So there I was, taking a lovely walk across the mountains, when I spotted a Flewitt in the distance. I thought, “hey, I want to interview that guy!”, so naturally – because I hear this is the best way to get an interview these days – I snuck up on him with…
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Author Spotlight – Stephen Kozeniewski
Dark bleatings everyone! In celebration of the release of The Perfectly Fine Neighborhood, we have come to the end of our author spotlights, and we’re ending with Stephen Kozeniewski. He is the author of the first story in the book, an editor of the anthology, and the owner of French Press, the press that released…
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Gone Where the Goblins Go – by Matt Betts – Book Review
In the near future, Tilly, a former army pilot mourning the loss of her father, has been recruited by a British conglomerate to fly a rescue team into war-torn China in search of their missing conservationist and his team. Joined by an eclectic collection of misfits, Tilly and her makeshift crew must brace themselves for…