“Baxter’s latest effort features a new playground, The Gulp, where weird is the norm and outsiders rarely survive.” Plenty of weird things are going on in The Gulp. For the residents, it’s just the way things are in the Australian harbour town. There are some maps that don’t even show The Gulp. No one who …
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“With his latest Ben Walker novel, Golden hits the ground running with a strange bio-weapon and the perfect standalone entry into the world of this globe-trotting weird detective.” It begins on July 4th. A car plows through a parade, and the driver stumbles out into the crowd. Sick, possibly dying, the man’s hands kill anyone …
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“With its gothic setting and lurid subject matter, Hall’s eerie prose is just right for those cold winter nights.” Soon after Scarlett meets Henry, they fall into a passionate love affair. Henry is a taxidermist, and Scarlett becomes obsessed with his creations as Henry becomes influenced by Felix, his rival. A year later, Scarlett looks …
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“With this new novel writing as Evie Green, the imaginary friend trope gets new life against the backdrop of a terrible flu, eerily mirroring and channelling our current fears and obsessions.” Most kids have imaginary friends. So when Rachel’s son Billy suddenly recovers from a terrible flu that’s killed many, she doesn’t even think of …
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“It’s a book that demands careful attentive reading but also impels the reader forward to each new revelation. The very definition of an unputdownable read.” In recent years, there seems to have grown a division between what some see as old school, classic horror, and a more subtle, arthouse take on the genre. Though these …
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“With his latest novel, DiLouie applies psychological suspense to the fallout of the haunted survivors of a religious death cult with horrifying results.” David, Deacon, and Beth all live with a terrible secret. They survived a religious cult’s last days at Red Peak mountain as children. As adults, the trauma of those events are a …
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“Gonzalez has the uncanny ability to combine heart-breaking and horrific situations to create tales equally emotional and eerie.” Michael Paul Gonzalez is the author of the novels Angel Falls (Perfect Edge, 2013) and Miss Massacre’s Guide to Murder and Vengeance (Thunderdome Press, second edition, 2018) and the creator of the gripping serial horror audio …
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“With her third novel, Farren easily slips into horror and speculative fiction with a searing story of forgiveness and survival.” Thirty years old and mute, Malachi receives a truly remarkable job offer: Six months as warden for Raizier Pharmaceuticals, and they’ll graft him a new tongue. The job is on an oil rig, part of …
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“Through a combination of many years teaching and many more writing in the genre he loves, Tim Waggoner has created a unique writing manual that stands head and shoulders above other creative reference books.” In the near-twenty years that his writing has been in print, Tim Waggoner has published close to fifty novels and …
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“With her latest novel, Kiste conjures a time long ago, and witches and those that wish to destroy them, with a story only she could deliver.” Barely escaping execution, Odette has lived in exile in the woods for five years. The rest of her family wasn’t so lucky, and all her magic wasn’t enough to …
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