Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … The Stone Serpent by Nicholas Kaufmann

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“With his latest, Kaufmann returns to the world of Dr. Laura Powell with a pulse-pounding story of deranged cult leaders and biotech gone horribly wrong.” When a petrified corpse lands on Medical Examiner Dr. Laura Powell’s autopsy table, she fully believes it’s a fossil. Strangely, all the evidence suggests otherwise, as the man on her …

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Look Out For … The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz

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With modern sensibilities, Janz tackles the Gothic tale, stamping the genre with his unique spin of blood-chilling horror.  Reeling from a nasty divorce and the public fallout that followed, American writer Arthur Pearce begins to travel abroad to England. It’s the spring of 1912, and while on a London-bound train he meets the lovely Sarah …

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Look Out For … White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

“With her latest novel, Wurth presents a haunting tale of a young woman searching for the one thing she’s never had, consumed by disturbing visions of a past some don’t want her to see.” Heavy metal loving Kari James is a Stephen King fan and is easily found in her favorite dive bar in Denver, …

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Meet the Writer: T.C. Parker

T.C. Parker is a writer and researcher based in the fox-ravaged wilds of Leicestershire. T.C. has been a copywriter, a lecturer, and, very briefly, an academic. T.C. now runs a semiotics and cultural insight agency by day and dreams up horror and crime fiction at night, when the kids are asleep. Visit T.C.’s website here …

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Look Out For … The Vessel by Adam L.G. Nevill

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“With his latest, Nevill cranks up the fear factor with a nightmarish folk horror tale just in time for Halloween.” Jess McMachen needs a little luck. Broke, running from her abusive ex, and raising a child alone are pushing Jess to breaking point. She takes a job caring for Flo Gardner. A disturbed shut-in and …

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Look Out For … Soft Places by Betty Rocksteady

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“With Soft Places, Rocksteady gives us a novella/graphic novel hybrid, providing the harrowing tale as well as the eerie illustrations within.” Naked, wandering the streets with a strange head wound, Johnna is lost with nowhere to turn. Believed to be psychotic, Johnna is forced into the care of psychiatrist Dr. Gonne. Dr. Gonne’s methods are …

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Look Out For … The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett

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“With her debut novel, Barnett uses dual timelines to present a dangerous shifting forest, showing some secrets are best left undiscovered.” In 1643: a group of soldiers in Northern England are ambushed. To survive, the hide out in nearby Moresby Wood. They know this isn’t a good idea. Known as an unnatural place, Moresby Wood …

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Look Out For … A Child Alone with Strangers by Philip Fracassi

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“With his latest, Fracassi gives us an epic supernatural procedural that dares to drag the darkest horrors out into the open.” After Henry Thorne is kidnapped, he becomes a prisoner in a farmhouse in the middle of the forest, isolated from all contact. But he’s really not that alone, as he finds himself connecting with …

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Meet the Writer: Daron Kappauff

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Daron Kappauff is a content editor by profession and a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA). He is the author of We Can Never Go Back, and the co-author of The Wicked Rex of the West and We Are Legend. He lives in Missouri where he’s raising a pair of toddlers, while dabbling in conjuring the occult. …

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News Round-up Week Ending 23 September 2022

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Hungary’s leading horror author, Attila Veres, releases his English debut featuring ten of his finest tales. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales features stories that push the boundaries between reality and the weird. An obsessed fan finds …

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