Author's posts
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May 27, 2020
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14 mins to read
“Black Bubbles is a large and varied collection, tackling many different subjects and narrative types, but all with Owen’s tremendous storytelling style.” As an editor and reviewer for more than a decade, Kelli Owen developed and refined her taste in fiction. With a personal style that ranges from thriller to psychological horror to extreme …
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May 21, 2020
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3 mins to read
“With his latest novel, Ford dives into the world of out of body experiences and serial killers, offering a disturbing and nightmarish voyeuristic experience.” After witnessing a murder at the local deli, a small town librarian realizes that his usual sleep paralysis nightmares have turned into something much more sinister. Traumatized from holding a dying …
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May 20, 2020
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7 mins to read
“The power of great storytelling lies in the author’s ability to create a world as real as our own and fill it with such compelling and engaging characters so that we can’t resist bearing witness to the horror as it unfolds. It is a power that Miskowski has in abundance.” S.P. Miskowski has been …
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May 14, 2020
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3 mins to read
“With her latest effort, Moreno-Garcia weaves the Gothic novel with Mexican folklore to deliver a tale of nightmarish, pulse-pounding horror.” Debutante Noemí Taboada lives a life of beautiful gowns and glamorous cocktail parties. When she receives a strange letter from her recently wed cousin begging to be saved from a mysterious doom, Noemí wastes no …
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May 13, 2020
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6 mins to read
“With great skill, Gemma Amor has delivered a wonderful story, as full of tremendous emotion as it is terrifying action.” A relatively new voice in the horror genre in the past couple of years, Gemma Amor has quickly made a name for herself as a hard-working author. After releasing her first collection, Cruel Works …
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May 7, 2020
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2 mins to read
“Under the backdrop of forbidden summer love, Rolfe explores a classic horror trope with his own unique twists and turns.” Fifteen-year-old Rocky Zukas is under the spell of summer love. After meeting a mysterious girl named November, his world turns upside down. Gabriel, November’s brother, and keeper of the family secret, does not approve. He …
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May 6, 2020
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5 mins to read
“ … there is so much fun to be had in the weird and wacky imagination of Duncan P. Bradshaw that we may not want to leave.” He has written zombie horror stories, science fiction horror stories and straight-up bizarro stories. But, since he published his novella about a serial-killing vacuum killer (Mr …
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April 30, 2020
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3 mins to read
“With mounting tension and claustrophobic paranoia, Griffin’s latest effort promises to send readers on a unsettling and disturbing ride.” Deep underground, four people live together in a subterranean facility. Everything they should want is there; medicine, water, and food. There’s even a bar, and a gym with a swimming pool. Only problem they have is …
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April 23, 2020
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4 mins to read
“With The Girl in the Video, Michael David Wilson’s debut novella, he creates a surreal paranoid nightmare instantly relatable in our digital content-saturated world” A teacher receives a video from an unknown sender. The video is a little weird, and strangely arousing. And then there are more videos. What do they want? Descending into paranoia …
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April 21, 2020
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6 mins to read
“Humble doesn’t disappoint … Fans of the weird western genre who enjoy their stories with equal parts action and horror told with captivating characters will LOVE this book—we sure did!” It has been almost two years since we were introduced to the work of C.S. Humble with his weird western, The Massacre at Yellow …
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