Category: Reviews

Book Review: Chokehold by David Moody

December 2, 2019
4 mins to read

“Moody has once again hefted his barbed wire baseball bat and knocked it out of the post-apocalyptic park, comfortably maintaining his reign as the Babe Ruth of British horror.” Spoiler alert! This review contains some spoilers for previous Hater books. If you haven’t read them yet we recommend you do so before reading this …

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Book Review: Bone China by Laura Purcell

November 27, 2019
8 mins to read

“What’s clear from this book and its two predecessors is that Laura Purcell is a master of her craft. She is steadily building a body of original work, within a specific subgenre, yet with each release distinctive and original from the last.” In recent years, there seems to have been a resurgence in popularity …

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Book Review: Whispers in the Ear of a Dreaming Ape by Joshua Chaplinsky

November 12, 2019
11 mins to read

“The tremendous talent of a storyteller unafraid to challenge himself through alternative narrative structure, or point of view, or subject matter. No matter the challenge, Chaplinsky knocked it out of the park.” Perhaps best known in literary circles as the Managing Editor of litreactor.com, and in horror circles as the brilliant brain behind self-published …

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Book Review: The Reddening by Adam Nevill

October 31, 2019
6 mins to read

“The Reddening is an intense, chokehold of a novel. It grips from the start and holds you down as it makes you consume the horrors within.” It’s been two years since Adam Nevill’s last novel Under A Watchful Eye was released by Pan MacMillan. In that time, Nevill has seen his novel The Ritual …