“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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“With her debut novel, Knight conjures Lilith in all her fury, unleashed to have her bloody revenge.” When Kenzi Brooks was seven years old, she watched The Scribble Man collect her brother’s soul after a terrible accident. He even gave Kenzi a present, a lucky rabbit’s foot. Now twenty-three, Kenzi doesn’t believe in The Scribble …
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“With The Return, her debut novel, Harrison’s story aims to give readers a creepy, sinister, weekend reunion party from Hell.” Elise is the only one who ever believed Julie would come back. Missing for two years, Elise never gave up hope. She knew her best friend would return. And then, two years to the day, …
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“With Beneath the Rising, Mohamed combines a coming-of-age story with a heavy dose of the Weird, with thrills and humor along for the ride.” Joanna “Johnny” Chamber is smart, from an affluent white family. Nick Prasad is brown, poor, and secretly madly in love with Johnny. Johnny creates a special kind of reactor that could …
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“With his latest novel, Ralston combines true-crime with a supernatural evil from the least likely of sources … an innocent elderly woman.” Martin Savage is on a book tour, promoting his latest true crime book. Now, one of his most dangerous subjects—the “Witch Hunter”—has escaped. A depraved murderer, the “Witch Hunter” holds a grudge against …
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“With his latest novel, Waggoner moves into nightmare territory with a creepy family that lives for destruction.” Rockridge, Ohio. The Eldreds move into town, choosing a quiet cul de sac. The Eldreds are definitely creepy, and extremely dangerous, feeding off the dark emotions of humans. They use their house to create nightmares to trap their …
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The fifth book in the Charitable Chapbook line from Nightscape Press, Michael Wehunt’s Everything Is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here, is an unflinching, poetic novella that, as described in our recent review of the book, “holds a mirror up to a modern America which, despite making some progress, still finds itself haunted …
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“Originally released in 1974, Let’s Go Play at the Adams’ has gained a massive reputation as one of the most terrifying horror novels ever published.” They’re only kids. That’s what Barbara keeps telling herself. But now the twenty-year-old babysitter is getting a little worried. It’s just a game. She finds herself bound and gagged, the …
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1980 AD. Jimmy Carter is in the last full year of his presidency, Mount St. Helen’s awakens from her slumber, AC/DC’s singer Bon Scott drinks himself to death, the US pulls out of the Olympics in Moscow, the Rubik’s Cube frustrates millions, Iron Maiden is born and John Bonham dies, Darth Vader is Luke’s father, …
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