“With The Balance Harrison conjures up a dark tale set in Cold War Poland, spiked with Slavic folklore and terrible sacrifice.” A split second glance causes an accident that injures Natalia’s brother. With her relationship with her mother already in tatters, and her brother getting worse by the minute, she finds a glimmer of hope in …
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“Exceptional, fearless, and, much to our benefit, only getting better with every story.” Fresh from “destroying” independent horror publishing with his last anthology (Tales from the Crust, 2019, co-edited with David James Keaton) and before the release of his forthcoming novel, Touch the Night, from Cemetery Dance, Max Booth III has surprised us with …
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“Fitch’s latest turns a horrible secret of the past into a waking nightmare for today, proving some things just won’t stay buried.” A tragic hunting accident at Coomb’s Gulch in the Adirondack Mountains left a boy buried a decade ago. It also left four childhood friends with the burden of a terrible secret. Today, Jonathan …
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“Campbell has a way of taking the common and mundane things in our lives and turning them into something dreadful and terrifying.” While staying with his aunt Thelma when he was in his teens, Patrick learned she had traveled to magical sites. Thelma was an artist, and her later works took a turn to the …
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“With her latest novel, Moshfegh pushes the boundaries of psychological horror while commenting on the genre itself in ways that are both humorous and terrifying.“ Walking her dog in the woods, an elderly woman finds a handwritten note on the ground, held down by rocks. It reads: “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know …
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Being a writer and fan of horror often leads to a question from people who have limited contact with the genre: “What scares you?” First of all, it’s important to acknowledge that horror is about so much more than fear. But the dread, the discomfort, the revulsion and—yes, the terror—which horror generates in an almost …
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“In this new edition of her debut collection, Owen adds new tales, story notes, even artwork, in a collection that is a must-read for fans of horror.” Death goes on a holiday … a reminder why good intentions and science don’t mix … nightmares that invade the waking world … ancient evil hitchhiking to freedom …
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“Following on from Crystal Lake Publishing’s hugely successful Tales From The Lake series, Arterial Bloomwill sit proudly alongside those tomes and, undoubtedly, the best anthologies that 2020 has to offer.“ In the introduction by the ever-eloquent Linda D. Addison, the Stoker award-winning author and poet touches on the bravery in editor Mercedes M. Yardley’s …
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“Animals Attack horror was huge in the 70’s, and Fisher’s The Pack hit that nerve in spectacularly gruesome fashion.” Man’s best friend. During the Summer on the island, they played with your children, ran on the beaches, fetched the sticks you tossed to them. But now Summer is over, the tourists have gone, and Winter …
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“[Kelso] weaves threads of each individual character, their complex histories, the overarching nightmarish theme of Ultra-Realism and the horror of being human together to create a bleak work of nihilistic art.” Chris Kelso is a chameleon, literarily speaking. The young Scot has written fiction with wide-ranging genre tags, from bizarro to science fiction, horror to …
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