Synopsis: Art world darling Julian Le Sang paints with passion, with abandon, and with his own blood. Inside these blood paintings, Julian sees more than art… he sees the future. In fifth grade, Julian is bullied and alienated until Marcy befriends him and learns the strange boy’s dark secret: he sees visions of death in […]
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Review: The Spare by Annie Neugebauer
Synopsis: It’s not a sequel. It’s next in the sequence… Kasper is tired of these extended family reunions. No matter what she does, she’s always the odd one out. She’s used to feeling outnumbered, but on this remote camping trip, those numbers keep changing. Review: Annie Neugebauer’s “Outsiders Sequence,” is nothing short of existentially torturous, […]
Review: Happy Hour (Killer VHS #9) by Gemma Amor
HAPPY HOUR is a fantastic novella, one that perfectly captures a hectic part of recent British history, invoking such a strong sense of nostalgia.
Review: Traps and Specters by Philip Fracassi
Synopsis: A new collection of short stories and novellas from Bram Stoker Award finalist Philip Fracassi, featuring an introduction by NYT bestselling author Matt Dinniman. From the mind of Stoker and British Fantasy award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes fourteen stories of the macabre that will frighten, disturb, and ensnare readers in a dark web of […]
Review: Happy Hour by Gemma Amor
Synopsis: The eccentric owner of a ’90s underground London cocktail bar has a unique and disturbing way of keeping an eye on everything and everyone, then disappearing those who don’t behave. Famous politicians, glamorous actresses, and international stars are all dying to get in… and to get out. Review: Gemma Amor’s “Happy Hour,” is a […]
Review: Traps and Specters by Philip Fracassi
Synopsis: From the mind of Stoker and British Fantasy award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes fourteen stories of the macabre that will frighten, disturb, and ensnare readers in a dark web of twisted tales. In these pages you’ll find talking corpses and deadly tombs, misguided exorcists, technology gone wrong, blood-soaked prison riots, and enough vengeful spirits […]
Review: Traps & Specters by Philip Fracassi
I knew I was going to get a bunch of well written horror stories, but I wasn’t ready for how many – if not all – of them turned out to be nasty, biting, sharp tales that really pull no punches
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 Extra (The Outsiders Sequence #1) by Annie Neugebauer
The Extra grabbed me by the throat, pulled me into its web of paranoia, dread, existential questions, and nerve-shredding, palm-sweating pace, and refused to let me go until I read the whole thing in one sitting.
Review: I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy
Synopsis: There are locations in this world where the light doesn’t seem to reach. Where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too strongly to fight back. A suspiciously empty gas station rest stop in the middle of the night, littered with googley eyes… A doctor’s office, where a bottle of […]
Review: I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours
I Know A Place is a fantastically moreish set of stories, and I highly recommend this to everyone!
Review: The Extra by Annie Neugebauer [audiobook]
Synopsis Ten people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night eleven set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who is the extra? Review When I chaperoned my kid’s field trip to a nature reserve last year that were multiple checkpoints to take attendance before departing both the school and the park to […]