Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell

The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell - cover

“With his latest, Campbell continues to make life’s most trivial concerns the stuff of bloodcurdling nightmares, guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine.” Leo Parker’s visit to Alphafen seemed idyllic. Soon after he leaves, that’s when the nightmares start. The airport becomes a labyrinth. The very words he says become treacherous, even lethal. And …

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Look Out For … The Folly by Gemma Amor

The Folly book cover

“With Amor’s latest, a woman and her father determined to escape their past realize the past refuses to let them go.” Morgan knew her father never killed her mother. She spent the last six years on a campaign for Owen’s release from prison. And now, in the middle of the pandemic, her father is free. …

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Look Out For … The Swarm by Andy Marino

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“With his latest, Marino presents a nightmarish apocalypse, our world infested with vicious cicadas, bringing humans to the brink of extinction.” After a strange murder case hits her desk, Detective Vicky Patterson realizes her nightmare is just beginning. Her young daughter, Sadie, is attacked by a swarm of cicadas recently awakened from their seventeen-year cycle …

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Look Out For … Sycamore by Ian Rogers

Sycamore by Ian Rogers - cover

“With his latest, Rogers presents the first in his Black Lands series, featuring a supernatural detective desperate to escape the clutches of a strange, nightmarish world.” In 1945, a portal opened. A rip in reality leading into the Black Lands, a world of perpetual night filled with strange and deadly entities. Soon after, another portal …

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Look Out For … Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy

Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy - cover

“With his latest, Cassidy puts readers in the last place in the world they’d want to find themselves, with nasty horrors on both sides of the door.” A young musician. A greasy gas station bathroom. An unseen assailant. Now he’s trapped inside the bathroom, and has to figure out which is worse: the horrors outside …

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Look Out For … American Rapture by CJ Leede

American Rapture by CJ Leede - cover

“With her latest, Leede plunges readers deep into an all-too-real apocalyptic nightmare.”  A strange virus spreads throughout America. The symptom: The infected become feral with lust. Devout Catholic girl Sophie travels the hellscape of the midwest, desperate to find her family as the world burns. While trekking across the country, Sophie learns there are much …

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Look Out For … Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram

Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram - cover

“With this debut novella, Ajram delves into shadowy liminal spaces, allowing readers to guide the main character deeper into a nightmarish labyrinth with no escape.” Vicken’s plan is to throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and say goodbye to everything. Seems fitting after a life of nothing but depression and pain. But …

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Look Out For … Black Rain Season by Kayli Scholz

Black Rain Season by Kayli Scholz - cover

“Venturing into rural Florida, Scholz presents a coming-of-age tale with an unlikely duo facing a vicious serial killer.” The Hillbilly Hammer has come to Sugar Bends. A deranged serial killer, Hillbilly Hammer leaves the small rural town with a lot more questions than answers. Crime-scene clean-up tech, Theo Shortridge, hunts the serial killer, alongside the …

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Look Out For … Shallow Ends by David James Keaton

Shallow Ends by David James Keaton - cover

“With his latest, Keaton gets behind the wheel of a party bus headed into a nightmare with no escape.”  It was just supposed to be a birthday party …  A modified fire truck. Just a group of friends celebrating. Then things take a dark detour. Pulsating dance rhythms reverberate over endless asphalt. As the temperature …

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Look Out For … Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton

Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton - cover

“With his new novel, Compton takes us on a wild ride against the hordes of Hell in a nightmarish evil vs. evil battle to the very end.” All Sarita’s life, a guardian angel has watched her and kept her safe. She calls him Angelo, and no one else knows about him but her. Secrets can’t …

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