Category: Goat Leader
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The Original’s Retribution – by David Watkins
Sergeant Peter Knowles has sworn to hunt down the remaining wolves in Britain and kill them all. He wants revenge for the massacre that took the lives of his friends. The wolf packs are scattered and scared, but someone new has started to galvanise them. Someone terrifying. Someone closer to Knowles than he could ever…
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Bedlam Trances – by Nicholas Wagner
From author Nicholas James Wagner (Razor Country) comes Bedlam Trances, nine unsettling meditations on crime and horror. In “Crown of Switchblades,” Irish gangsters involved in a turf war run afoul of a cult. “The Tragic Events Befalling Lizaveta” follows a 15th century inquisitor as he researches the disappearance of monks from a German monastery. And in…
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Children of Solitude – by Michael G. Williams
This Appalachian cosmic horror novel tells the story of a gay man who must return to his ancestral home in the mountains of Western North Carolina after his mother’s death to clean it out and sell it off. Navigating feelings of grief and anger, he finds her house is haunted and her nosy neighbors always…
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Remedy – by J.S. Breukelaar
Nat Jacobs finds herself alone and far from home in a mirror world, where she is herself . . .and not. She can remember being nightmarishly wrenched away from her child, unbearable pain, and then nothing. Traumatized and visibly scarred, dismissed as hysterical, irrational even—she finds others like her in a support group, all living…
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Fearsome Creatures – by Aliya Whiteley
Dark bleatings, my fearsome tribe! I’m reviewing another Black Shuck Shadows collection today, this time by Aliya Whiteley (who is new to me!). I REALLY enjoyed this micro-collection and – spoiler alert – I recommend it! The title implies that all of the stories are about…well…fearsome creatures. And they are! However, it’s not quite as…
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The Descent – by Kate Probert
In 2003, six women disappeared in the Appalachian Mountains while on a caving expedition. In 2005 their footage was found. That’s the tagline you didn’t see on this film, but easily could have. Nor is there any “based on real events” caption at the beginning, possibly a choice by director Neil Marshall to avoid accusations…
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The Alchemy Press Book of the Dead 2024
The Alchemy Press Book of the Dead 2024 commemorates the passing of more than 370 writers, artists, performers and technicians who, during their lifetimes, made significant contributions to the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres in movies, television, books, comics, art and much, much more.Amongst those we lost in 2024 were Doctor Who’s first companion and Jaws’ first…
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Phantasmagoria – EasterCon 2025 Issue
Eastercon 2025 Souvenir Issue (Fantasy Cover Version)! Harry Clarke, Jim Fitzpatrick, Stephen Jones, Caitlín R. Kiernan, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Ian McDonald, Maura McHugh, Kim Newman, Lynda E. Rucker, Bram Stoker, David A. Sutton, Peter Tremayne, Jo Zebedee! Fiction, artwork, reviews and so much more! Dark bleatings, my non-fiction loving tribe! You may remember me…
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A Whisper in the Dark – by Elizabeth Devecchi
Sarah Parker thinks she has found the perfect place for a fresh start when she moves her family from the Midwest to a sleepy suburban neighborhood in an idyllic southern town. Leaving a position as a serious journalist to write fluff pieces for a local paper is a compromise she is willing to make to…
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Secret Lives of the Dead – by Tim Lebbon
A dark folk horror tale of a deadly family curse, crime and murder that is sure to turn your blood cold, from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Netflix’s The Silence. When Jodi, BB and Matt decide to burgle a derelict country home as a thrilling dare, they become embroiled in a twisted legacy…
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