Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror, edited by John F.D. Taff

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“Paying homage to the groundbreaking anthology Dark Forces, Taff has collected all new tales from the Dark Stars of modern horror fiction.” Forty-two years ago, an anthology was released that changed horror fiction forever. Dark Forces opened the doorway and expanded the canvas of horror in ways readers had never seen before. Now, under the …

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Meet the Writer: Donnie Goodman

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Donnie Goodman is a reader, writer, and collector of horror fiction. When he is not out in the wild, searching for Paperbacks From Hell in Central Virginia, he is likely reading, writing, or playing video games. His short story collection, The Razorblades in My Head, and poetry collection, I Eat Its Seeds, are available now. …

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Look Out For … The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

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“With her latest, St. James taps into our obsession with true crime with the story of a cold case blogger scoring the interview of a lifetime, blurring the lines between reality and the supernatural.”  1977. A city in Oregon is terrified by two shocking murders. Dubbed the Lady Killer Murders, two men, randomly chosen, both …

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Look Out For … A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons

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“With Lyons’ latest, reunited siblings headed home have the road trip from Hell, forced to outrun a mysterious stranger and unimaginable horrors in the Nevada desert.”  Brother and sister Jonah and Nell Talbot were once inseparable. Then Jonah left town twelve years ago and the sibling couldn’t be more distant. Now divorced, Jonah reunites with …

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Look Out For … Sundial by Catriona Ward

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“With her latest, Ward sets her sights on the desert with the story of a mother and daughter confronting the past, and each other, with deadly consequences.” Rob just wants a normal life. It was almost hers for the taking: husband, two kids, that house in the suburbs. Now Rob is worried about Callie, her …

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Look Out For … Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

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“In her horrifying debut, three survivors face a hostile world of ravenous feral men in a post-apocalyptic landscape we’ve never seen before.”  For Beth and Fran, the New England coast is their hunting ground. By day they hunt feral men to harvest organs for their own survival. Living by the gun, Robbie learned his motto …

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Meet the Writer: Joe Scipione

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Joe Scipione lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife and two kids. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and a Senior Contributor and horror book reviewer at Horrorbound.net. He is the author of Perhaps She Will Die and the 2022 releases Zoo and Decay. He has had stories published in …

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Look Out For … Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds by John Everson

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“With his latest, Everson dives into the diabolical world of Giallo with a twisted tale of madness and murder.” Someone is killing the Songbirds. The star of the school’s piano program is found strangled with piano wire, a grainy Facebook picture of the victim’s final moments the only clue. Now Eve has to take the …

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Look Out For … Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas

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“With his latest collection, Thomas pushes back the boundaries of transgressive speculative fiction with fourteen tales that will scar your soul.” After an asteroid crashes near their home, a set of twins discover they have strange new powers. In a world run by aliens, father and son slaves lead a rebellion that just may save …

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Look Out For … The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran

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“With her latest, Gran returns to the occult, tapping into obsessive desire and our collective need to know if we go on.” Following an extremely painful tragedy, Lily Albrecht gives up writing books for the life of a rare book dealer. Dull, boring, and sexless, things aren’t all they’re cracked up to be until Lily …

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