Category: Goat Leader
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The Sinister Horror Company – Book Recommendations for Novella November
Dark bleatings everyone! We’re posting nothing but novellas this month, and today I’ve got 3 recommendations for you, all from the Sinister Horror Company. I’m spotlighting this fabulous indie press in this post because, much to the devastation of the horror community, SHC is closing its doors. It’s had a great run and produced such…
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The Mist – by Stephen King – Book Review and Movie Contrast
It’s a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist…creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of…
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Latest Bookish YT Videos
Click on the pics to be taken to the videos! Authors/Books mentioned in this video: Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), Charlotte Perkins-Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), John Polidori (The Vampyr), Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla), Franz Kafka (Metamorphosis), Stephen King (The Mist), Priya Sharma (Pomegranates), Adam Millard (Swimming in the Sea of Trees), Brian Keene (Darkness on…
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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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