SYNOPSIS Four intertwining stories. Four points of view of a single large event. Four people from different backgrounds with different ideals. And a secret society of werewolves is unveiled in Portland, Oregon. For four hundred years, they have kept their secret. Some will do anything to reveal it. Others will sacrifice everything to keep it. […]
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Review: Once More Into The Dark (A Collection of Horror & Weird Tales) by Lee C. Conley
Synopsis A collection of Horror short fiction and weird tales from the author, Lee C Conley. This collection of short stories blends horror, dark fantasy, and historical fiction, and features tales of subterranean horrors, ancient sunken lands, and strange cults, stories of witch-trials, and terrible sea monsters. Each tale certain to make you shudder as […]
Review: A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper
Synopsis Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Olivia figures she’ll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then the summer night storm which crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow. If Olivia’s […]
Review: Before The Devil Knows You’re Here by Autumn Krause
The best way I can think to summarize this book would be to say that Krause writes up an atmospheric homage to a mixed cultural background and the memory of a person dear to her, depicting a different, darker, and more folk gothic side to early 19th century americana. Bringing to life that solid and vivid mix of folk tales and myth that were also paired with the Christian overtones informing the 1800s American short story. Think Washington Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker but add more monsters and a gutsy young woman willing to do anything for her family.
Review: Girls of Little Hope by Sam Beckbessinger and Dale Halvorsen
Synopsis Three girls went into the woods. Only two came back, covered in blood and with no memory of what happened. Or did they? Being fifteen is tough, tougher when you live in a boring-ass small town like Little Hope, California (population 8,302) in 1996. Donna, Rae and Kat keep each other sane with the […]
Review: Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
Synopsis Rory Morris isn’t thrilled to be moving back to her hometown. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she’d put in her rear-view. After a night out at a bar where she runs into Ian, an old almost-flame, […]
Guest Review: The Ungodly Duology by S.H. Cooper
Synopsis The Ungodly Duology features two horror novellas from author S.H. Cooper – The Festering Ones: Faith York was a young girl when she saw her father dragged into the ground by a spider-armed woman, never to be seen again. Twenty years later, the events of that day continue to haunt her, and her need for answers has […]
Review: A War To End All (Manifest Delusions #3) by Michael R. Fletcher & Clayton W. Snyder
Synopsis A war, then. A war of our own. A war for perfection and cleanliness and order.A war to end suffering.A war to end filth and disease.A war to end immorality and injustice.A war to end blasphemy.The last war this world would ever see.A war to end all. Review Holy Geisteskraken’s balls, that was bloody […]
Review: When the Night Bells Ring by Jo Kaplan
Summary In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the two women find Lavinia Cain’s diary, a settler in search of […]
Review: Whisperwood by Alex Woodroe
If you go down to the woods today… you’re in for a fairly terminal surprise Synopsis When curious nomad Anna hears about Whisperwood, a town that’s not on any maps, that nobody goes to, and nobody comes from, she sees an opportunity to hide from her violent witch-hunting ex. But not everything is peaceful in […]
REVIEW: The Insatiable Hunger of Trees by Samantha Eaton
SYNOPSIS Seventeen-year-old Cara Hughes doesn’t have time to believe in monsters. When Cara’s older sister, Shelby, returns home after a year-long disappearance, unable to say what happened or where she went, Cara’s family is thrown into turmoil—again. As it is, Cara’s barely juggling her job, school, and volunteer work, and she’s desperate to be chosen […]
Review: The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett
Hello again dear reader, it is October and spooky season is on 🎃. So how about a review for a surrealist gothic folk-thriller?? That sounds like a bit of a mouthful but broken down in other terms this is the kind of book that is 80% just supernatural vibes surrounding a very simple plot that will have you coming out of it more than a little confused but satisfied nonetheless.