“If you enjoy losing yourself in a well-written supernatural thriller with strong elements of horror, curling up in your favourite reading spot with this book may well be the perfect way to spend a long winter evening or two.” A fan of horror, science fiction and fantasy from a young age, it should come as …
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“The Old West, a wicked virus scourging the land, and a young woman setting out across the desert plains to fight for what’s right … it has all the makings of a blockbuster hit everyone is going to be reading.” Ten years after the Civil War and things are still bad in the West Texas …
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When writing horror, one thing that can make a story really scary is making it believable. For a lot of writers that means scouring the internet, books, historical records and more to find equivalents to the situations we are writing about. I was on just such an information hunt when I stumbled upon Lore, and …
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“Goodfellow is the go-to guy for your fix of things strange and wonderful.” The Polite Ones by Cody Goodfellow is about a girl who has grown up in an underground world, years after the end of the human world above. She is a member of a clan and it’s customary for them to wear masks …
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“By turns emotional, thrilling, and dread-inducing, leading to a muted yet devastating conclusion. Brian Hodge is clearly a master craftsman of a writer.” Released as a limited-edition hardback through Cemetery Dance, Brian Hodge’s novella I’ll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky is a stellar example of a complete artistic package. From the …
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“Winnette takes on the gothic ghost story, delivering ghastly chills with a literary flair. “ Newly arrived at an exclusive boys’ school for orphans, it doesn’t take long to realize something isn’t right. His classmates are extremely hostile, and the Headmaster is more than a little … extreme. And there’s the whispers he hears at …
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“A page turner filled with surprises, leaving the reader with a sense of satisfaction, and another name to add to their favorites list.” While Derek Gray visits a fellow writer and long time friend, Frank Harlan Marshall, he senses something is off about him and the forest surrounding his home, far away from civilization, …
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“Quiet Places is an adventurous novella from Jasper Bark and one that pays off, with its slower, quieter story allowing us to feel closer to the protagonist and all the more to suffer from the gut punch of its conclusion.” Quiet Places opens with a prologue that launches the reader head-first into a weird, unsettling …
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“The long-awaited sequel to Jonathan L. Howard’s Carter & Lovecraft is just the perfect thing to round out this chilly autumn season.” An alternate history where the Cold War never happened. The Nazi’s are in control, ruling behind the ruins of the Iron Curtain. In the Unfolded World, monsters are all too real, and things …
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“These tales are dark, starkly violent, but also subtle and ambiguous, often at the same time.” Following 2016’s rather excellent collection Some Will Not Sleep, Adam Nevill returns with another output of his shorter fiction in the form of Hasty for the Dark. Once again published through the author’s own press, Ritual Limited, and matching …
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