Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill

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“With his latest, Hamill sends a trio home to confront horrors old and new as Texas is torn apart in an apocalyptic nightmare.” “You can never go home again,” the saying goes … For Hal, Athena, and Erin, home is exactly where they must go. Twenty years ago, the three were students of eccentric Professor …

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Look Out For … The Body Harvest by Michael J. Seidlinger

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“With his latest, Seidlinger goes viral as he taps into our collective obsession with illness in this Ballardian nightmare. After meeting at a grief share group, Will and Olivia quickly bond. See, Will is a fraud and Olivia is a wreck. Together in their brokenness, they discover they also share a particular hobby: seeking out …

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Look Out For … Words Made of Flesh by R.A. Busby

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“With her latest, Busby presents a down-on-his-luck man falling into a pit of obsession concerning a strange book made of flesh.” New Bedford, 1899 Tormented by memories of his lover, lingering on the edges of life, Harrison Quire realizes he has a problem. When he pays the Whisperers’ Club a visit to hear a few …

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Look Out For … Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías

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“With her US debut, Trías presents a horrifying vision of a plausible future and the emotional ramifications of a woman desperate to hold on to those she loves.” A woman tries to understand why her world is being torn apart by a strange plague. With an algae bloom poisoning the once pristine air coming from …

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Look Out For … Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce

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“With her adult horror fiction debut, Royce presents a novella of a young woman trying to escape the demons of a past that refuses to let her go.” Maxine Forest goes back to her childhood home after a serious accident leaves her in dire financial straits. The empty house is now home only to the …

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Look Out For … We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

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“With his debut novel, Kliewer ramps up the tension with a haunting tale of mysterious guests who have long overstayed their welcome.” Charlie and Eve are a young, queer couple who flip houses. After landing a killer deal on an old house in a delightful neighborhood, they get to work prepping the house to flip. …

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Look Out For … Invaginies by Joe Koch

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“Koch continues their exploration of postmodern horrors with a riveting new collection showcasing all-too-real nightmares and hellish landscapes.” 17 disturbing tales diving into possessions, corruption, and plagues. Apocalyptic yet familiar. Literary prose meets the grotesque. Invaginies is an invasion, it is a perception that is bodily and transcendent creating holes, paths, or pockets of alternate truth—and …

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Look Out For … How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

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“With his latest, DiLouie presents a meta-horror tale with an obsessed director using a cursed camera aimed to capture an aspiring Final Girl’s last performance.” Max Maurey is one of the world’s most famous horror directors. Everyone loves him. Actors love him, audiences adore him, and Hollywood needs him. But this is the 80s, and …

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Look Out For … Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi

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“With his latest, Malfi takes the ‘secret from the past’ trope, fills it with damaged and desperate characters, and cranks the horror volume all the way up.” Quickly rising up the ranks in a law firm in New York, Andrew Larimer has finally settled into his new life. With a very pregnant wife, Andrew’s thoughts …

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Look Out For … Cinderwich by Cherie Priest

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“With her latest, Priest presents readers with a small-town mystery wrapped in a road-trip to a city shrouded in a horrifying past.” “Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?” Originally spotted by trespassing children decades ago, no one knows who put Ellen’s corpse in the treetop to this day. Hoping this was their Ellen, Kate …

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