Quinta das Lágrimas (the palace of tears) is a huge royal palace, now functioning as a five-star spa hotel, but peel back the skin and you will discover something altogether darker. Located on the edge of the city of Coimbra and likely built sometime in the 13th century, the palace played host to a number …
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“Coming from a background of loving stories with strong, heroic characters, Wallace taps into real fears everyone can relate to. “ A quiet, scenic California town. The kind of place you’d want to settle in, start a family, and watch your kids grow up. But the kids in Clear Vista never really grow up. Strange …
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“For anyone who enjoys tales of post-apocalyptic gloom!” Coffle plunges the reader immediately and unceremoniously into a viscerally bleak world of slavery, pseudo-zombies and horror, in the truest sense. After an apocalyptic war, Ardenne—herself an escaped former slave—stands at the head of a coffle train of escapees, fleeing servitude across what appears to be one …
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This past March, Atlanta, Georgia hosted the first annual Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird to a smashing success. With 2018 right around the corner, The Outer Dark is poised to turn San Jose, California weird as the symposium returns with panels and readings from the very best in contemporary weird fiction. On 24 …
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“This fish-out-water dropped into a dysfunctional family is the perfect setup for a creepy thriller tinged with danger.” A brutal triple murder forces the state to foster the remaining children of a Catholic group home in Long Island. Now living with a completely new, and quite dysfunctional, family, fifteen-year-old Robin Hills discovers her new family …
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“Continues to push the boundaries between horror, weird, and literary.” Though still in the early stages of his writing career, Joe Hill has already carved out an impressive body of work. With four novels (including the exemplary Horns) a collection of short stories (20th Century Ghosts) and an award winning and wonderful graphic novel series …
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“Erik T. Johnson delivers a magnum opus of staggering proportions and epic concepts of literary strangeness.” Collections of short fiction are sometimes difficult to evaluate from a critical standpoint, mostly because of the fact that they are often front-loaded with the best pieces the author has to offer and then the rest of the book …
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“With the odd, yet appropriate, moniker H.G. Bells, this book takes another stab at the end-of-the-world scenario, this time using insomnia instead of a zombie virus.” The world record for a human to go sleepless is eleven days. As a new epidemic of insomnia hits the world, everyone begins to wonder when they will …
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“A bizzaro twilight zone episode played out on the page.” Apollo Unbound is a thirty-six page comic penned by the super talented Chris Kelso, featuring fantastic illustrations by Jim Agpalza that brings the tale to life. By the end of reading the comic, both of these gentlemen will be on your watch list…if they aren’t …
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“With this new proposed series, now is the perfect time to expand on those harrowing concepts, and Moody is the guy with the chops to do it.” A group trapped on Skek in the middle of the North Sea. Skek used to be a military outpost, a scientific research facility, even a fishing settlement. Now …
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