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Review: Cicada by Tanya Pell

February 22, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: “The modern day Goosebumps for adults.” –Horror Obsessive Ash is stranded at a rural horror film festival about a giant killer cicada and can’t decide what’s worse, the movie or her idiot boyfriend, until she realizes she’s starring in the bloody sequel when people start dying and the locals won’t let them leave. Review: […]

Filed Under: Creature Feature, Fear For All, Monsters, Reviews, Weird Tagged With: Cicada, Killer VHS, Killer VHS Series, shortwave, Shortwave books, Shortwave Publishing, Tanya Pell

Review: Our Own Unique Affliction by Scott J Moses

January 15, 2025 by Ed Crocker Leave a Comment

Immortality sucks Synopsis Our Own Unique Affliction is the story of Alice Ann, a dejected immortal who longs for her life in the sun. Navigating guilt, loss, family, meaning, murder, and all that comes with the curse of living forever. An existential, bleak, quiet until it’s not, hallucination on duality, rife with fangs, empathy, blood, […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, fearforall, Horror, shortwave

George Dunn’s Top Reads of 2024

December 13, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

2024 has been an absolute treat for any horror reader, but, most importantly (as I am the plucky and charismatic final girl in terms of my own horror consumption) it’s been a spectacular reading year for me. In theory this should be an equally spectacular list. Here’s the deal though, narrowing down the 100+ books […]

Filed Under: Best of the year, Blog Posts, Fear Articles, List Tagged With: 8114, Berkley, Brian McAuley, Candy Cain Kills, Candy Cain Kills Again, Catriona Ward, Clash Books, Clay McLeod Chapman, Come With Me, Coup de Grace, Curse of the Reaper, Ghost Eaters, Hachette, Joshua Hull, Kill Your Darling, Killer VHS, Looking Glass Sound, Paperbacks from Hell, Rachel Harrison, Ronald Malfi, Shaun Hamill, shortwave, Skyhorse Publishing, So Thirsty, Sofia Ajram, Talos Publishing, The Dissonance, Titan, Tor Nightfire, Valancourt Books, Viper books, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Whisper Down The Lane, William Morrow

Review: Candy Cain Kills Again: The Second Slaying by Brian McAuley

December 5, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: She’s making a list… and chopping it twice! After surviving the horrors of Christmas Eve at the Thornton house, Austin, Mateo and Fiona head to the Church of Nodland to get some confessions from Pastor Wendell and his congregation. Little do they know that Candy Cain is coming to town to wish one and […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Religious Horror, Revenge Story, Reviews, Serial Killers, Slasher Tagged With: Brian McAuley, Candy Cain Kills, Candy Cain Kills Again, shortwave, Shortwave books, Shortwave Publishing

Review: Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley

December 4, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he’s less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this family on the rocks will have to fight for their lives against a legendary […]

Filed Under: Body Horror, Fear For All, Religious Horror, Reviews, Slasher Tagged With: Brian McAuley, Candy Cain Kills, Killer VHS Series, shortwave, Shortwave Publishing

Review: Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy

November 28, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by an unseen assailant, caught between the horrors on the other side of the door and the horrors rapidly skittering down the walls inside. Review: Grisly and absurd in more ways than a centipede has legs, “Rest […]

Filed Under: Bizarro, Body Horror, Fear For All, Psychological, Religious Horror, Reviews, Serial Killers, Weird Tagged With: Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop, shortwave, Shortwave books, Shortwave Publishing

Review: Stay On The Line by Clay McLeod Chapman, with Illustrations by Trevor Henderson

September 12, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-of-service payphone in hopes of talking out their grief and saying goodbye to loved ones, only for it to begin ringing on its own. As more townspeople answer the call, friends and family believed to have been lost […]

Filed Under: Demons, Fear For All, Grief, Reviews Tagged With: Clay McLeod, Clay McLeod Chapman, shortwave, Shortwave books, Shortwave Publishing, Stay on the Line

Review: Mewing by Chloe Spencer

January 17, 2024 by Ed Crocker Leave a Comment

There will be likes. There will be follows. There will be blood. Synopsis Vixen would sell her soul to get into the Bleach Babes and, if she isn’t careful, she might just get what she wants. One of the most exclusive influencer co-ops in LA, the Bleach Babes live and work together in one big […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Psychological, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Horror, shortwave

REVIEW: Melon Head Mayhem (Killer VHS Series #1) by Alex Ebenstein

January 2, 2024 by Seanchalant Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS Have you ever wanted to live inside your favorite horror film? Prove you have what it takes to fight Freddy? Destroy Jason? Mangle Michael? Cousins Carson and Sophia are in town for their grandma’s funeral and are, unknowingly, about to live out the nightmare that is every horror fan’s dream. After they find an old […]

Filed Under: Anthology, Demons, Fear For All, Folk, Monsters, Reviews Tagged With: Alex Ebenstein, Horror, Horror Book, Killer VHS Series, Melon Head Mayhem, Monsters, Review, Shortwav, shortwave, Throwback

Review: Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series #2) by Brian McAuley

August 16, 2023 by Ed Crocker Leave a Comment

Celebrate your festive season in gore-soaked style with a slasher that does everything right Synopsis When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he’s less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Reviews, Survivalist Tagged With: Book Review, Fear for all, Horror, shortwave, slasher horror

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