“If you are looking for a high octane adventure story which also offers new and interesting twists on classic ideas, look no further than to The Last Night.” The Last Night is the latest novel from Mark Dunn. Following on from the well-received A Girl in Mind, there are some parallels with his first novel, …
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“If you’re looking for a story that will truly scare the hell out of you and skitter around the inside of your skull long after you’ve read the last word, you’ve found it in The Hatching.” As avid scholars of the dark and disturbing, we frequently call certain horror fiction and movies terrifying or horrifying. …
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“These four brilliant authors have brought their collective genius together to paint this unflinchingly violent, oppressively bleak city with the adroitness of world class painters, drawing vivid images on your imagination in varying shades of gray and frequent splashes of red.” Shared world anthologies are rare in dark fiction, and when they do come along …
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“ Prescribing to his own rule of ‘avoiding what’s been done to death’, The Booking shows Campbell in top form with a strange and creepy tale that lingers long after the last page is turned.” For over fifty years, British author Ramsey Campbell has been scaring readers with his strange and wholly original horror stories. …
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“Dearborn is not afraid of the dark, nor does she flinch at shocking, brutal violence and her characters face plenty of it as they race to save Trisha’s missing son from the clutches of a demon.” Recently there have been a lot of novels published that could be thought of as action-horror fiction. Motorman, by …
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“Though the autumn season theme is very subtle in some of the stories, the variety of cosmic terrors will linger on the mind long after the last page is turned.” The level of commitment Lovecraft eZine has to keeping the world of the Cthulhu Mythos thriving is a testament to the imagination of HP Lovecraft, …
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“While unfamiliar readers may find the story complex and rather frustrating, fans of Cisco’s work will welcome this novella with open arms.” Charging on the scene in 1999 with his novel The Divinity Student, Michael Cisco has made quite a name for himself with the readers of weird and dark fiction. Describing his own work …
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“Grau takes you down dark, horrific pathways, keeping you on the edge of your seat and reading until the final, petrifying sentence.” Weird fiction is enjoying something of a renaissance of late, possibly motivated by such authors as Simon Strantzas, Laird Barron, and Stephen Graham Jones, but perpetuated by newer faces on the scene such …
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“The Suicide Motor Club is Buehlman’s best work to date and one of the best vampire novels to come along since Salem’s Lot.” Vampires have long been a fascination among readers and authors alike, ranging from Stoker’s classic Dracula to Stephen King’s exemplary Salem’s Lot and stopping at all points in between with Anne Rice’s …
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“Dracula as presented here is a fetid, creepy delight.” With so many adaptations of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel Dracula being released over the years, choosing one to read, watch or listen to can be a difficult choice. This Is Horror’s Simon Kurt Unsworth checks out just one of those adaptations as he looks back …
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