Synopsis: Every small town has ghosts. King’s Branch has Marla. A reclusive young woman who lives with her mother in a creepy Gothic house, Marla Gorman is the stuff of urban legends. Some believe she’s a prisoner. Others claim she’s a witch. The evening of the first murder, Detective Carl Lancaster sees Marla leering at him from her bedroom window. […]
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Review: Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart
Synopsis: ELLY Elly is running. Pregnant and still in her wedding dress, she flees the cottage that her new husband has rented for their wedding night. Because he’s not what people think he is – and she knows that, one day, he’ll hurt her in a way she can’t fix. Freezing and lost in the […]
Review: Brokeula by Michael J Seidlinger
Synopsis: A broke vampire’s last ditch effort to escape the blood sucking monster of capitalism through an ill-conceived multi-level marketing scheme. James Sugre has never been this broke before in his centuries of living. Down and out, he’s had a terrible string of luck investing in companies crippled by fraud and always late to the […]
Review: The Other by Annie Neugebauer
Synopsis: A couple on an outdoor retreat meet their doppelgangers on a hiking trail and are soon tested on how well they truly know each other. Review: Well that was rather stressful. In her latest, the second instalment in The Outsiders Sequence, Neugebauer rolls the uncanny up tight like a sleeping bag, dehydrates dread into […]
Review: The Hive by Ronald Malfi
Synopsis: The residents of Mariner’s Cove are changing… In the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people of this quaint suburban neighborhood. Random, everyday items left scattered upon the lawns, the streets, and the shoreline all seem to call out to them. There is an item for almost […]
Review: The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson
Synopsis: Nona McKinley raised three boys in the Hester Gardens section of Medford, Michigan, an impoverished community divided by those who follow their faith in God and those who turn to crime to survive. With her drug dealer husband behind bars and her eldest son shot to death at eighteen, Nona has devoted herself to […]
Review: Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller
Synopsis: 1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and―delightfully― some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. When Ursula is invited to join a squat at The Underwood, […]
Review: Youthjuice by E.K Sathue
Synopsis: A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possible—at a terrible cost—in this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture. From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE (hee-bee), a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood and named after the Greek goddess of youth, it’s clear something is […]
Review: Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay
Synopsis: Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered […]
Review: The Brides by Charlotte Cross
Synopsis: ‘Come to me, and be mine for eternity’ 1884. When Mafalda journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving aunt, her secret love, Lucy, hurries from London to comfort her, with chaperone and lady’s maid in tow. But lady’s maid Alice, blessed and cursed with the Sight, is tormented by terrifying visions. When chaperone […]
Review: We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone by Ronald Malfi
Synopsis: Twenty haunting stories from the Bram Stoker Award nominated, and bestselling author of Come With Me. A man leaves rehab and tries to make a new life for himself, only to find the past closing in on him. A married couple on holiday have a bizarre encounter with a shiver of sharks. And, on Halloween […]
Review: For Human Use by Sarah G. Pierce
Synopsis: Finding a human connection online has become impossible. Enter Liv: a dating app that matches people with dead bodies. Somehow, it has taken the world by storm. Millions of users are convinced that life with a corpse presents a better alternative to conventional relationships. Flailing against Liv’s popularity, venture capital superstar Tom Williamson–whose company […]