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|title=Dread Nation
|author=Justina Ireland
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''
Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which is interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changing world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else.}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->1471407764<!-- Ireland -->|title=The Twisted Tree|-author=Rachel Burge| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre=Horror[[image:1789090873.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwMartha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift.amazonShe can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge she doesn't understand.coShe flees to her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give and stumbles into a world of menace.uk/dp/1789090873/ref}}{{Frontpage|isbn=nosim1788950720|title=Whiteout (Red Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=Are you up for a sleepless night or two?tag=thebookbag-21]]If so, read on!
 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland]]=== [[image:5starCharlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you'' Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which re staying in interrupting the civil war between a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one of the states altered American history foreverski guides, Hanna. In Hanna herself doesn't have the changed world, minorities are forced into conscription happiest backstory and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for this forms a better life by being employed as an attendantconnection between them. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Burge -->|isbn=9386897385|-title=Nothing Lasting| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Laura Solomon[[image:1471407764.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co3.uk/dp/1471407764/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Horror|summary===[[The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge]]=== [[image:5starWe never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] It's what his mother used to call him, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] Martha's world has changednot least because he found it annoying. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can read if not ''living'' as most people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge she doesn't would understandit. She flees to spends her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is prepared to givea foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, and stumbles into world firstly because she'd spent a couple of menace. [[The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge|Full Review]] <!-- Dylan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-alignyears in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: top; text-align: center;"|what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist.}}{{Frontpage[[image:1788950720.jpg|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788950720/ref1538761858|title=nosim?tagThe Anomaly|author=thebookbag-21]]Michael Rutger|rating=5|genre=Horror| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-align: left;"| ===[[Whiteout Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (Red Eyeif rather inept) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on! Charlie Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountainsstarting point of this book. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie Deep in a bad attitude reputation and he's not cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a popular kidStephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1683690122|title=We Sold Our Souls|author=Grady Hendrix|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=The night manager of the ski guidesa Best Western, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory Kris Pulaski is washed up and this forms a connection between themunhappy. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan |Full Review]]  <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9386897385Few know of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9386897385/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:3When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the band.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]In a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] We never know she's determined to face the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''who ruined her life. It's what his mother used to call himBut with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=ETDWB|title=Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I''livingm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=In the third and final part of the '' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and drinkingretribution. Housework is With the events of book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a foreign countryyoung escapee from the secret testing facility. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent As events come to a couple of years in a mental hospitalclimax, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what she has in mind is that kind of world will he could be a famous arsonist. [[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]have left?}}<!-- Rutger -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=DIAYG| styletitle="widthDead Is All You Get: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez[[image:1538761858.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1538761858/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Horror| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Anomaly by Michael Rutger]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episodeStill battling the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up to rescue him and his wife Holly. But things only get worse – with the virus mutating, for and the Youtube erainfected getting smarter. Join When Dave discovers the truth behind the intrepid (if rather inept) team contagion it will drive him past all limits of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only faith or reason – but will he be able to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah manage to deal with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point those closest to him?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=TMWImD|title=Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of this bookTell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=4. Deep in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in 5|genre=Horror|summary=A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown long road to recovery, but finally feels like he's getting his life back. Then - a plague hits the town, turning the majority of the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave the blendtaste of humans. [[The Anomaly by Michael Rutger|Full Review]] <!Fighting to survive -Dave's urge to hide away and drink is strong - Hendrix -->|-will he fight to live when the chances of survival are so slim? With the hordes of the undead growing and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave...| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|}}{{Frontpage[[image:1683690122.jpg|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690122/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 1788542304| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"The Monsters We Deserve|author=Marcus Sedgwick|rating=4|genre==[[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix]]===Horror[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]Two hundred years ago, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] The night manager of a Best Westernbad weather, Kris Pulaski bad company (well, the kind that is washed up also mad, and unhappy. Few dangerous to know ), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – discussion all led a band once tipped for greatnessyoung woman to start writing her first, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo careerand definitely her most famous ever, rocketing book. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of violence turns Krisremote Alpine building, in the centre of that first novel's life upside down – she is forced world, to look back to a past she has tried revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates it, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems to forget – only be there and doing this for the publisher to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just whom he addresses a lot of the bandscript we read. 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[[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix|Full Review]] <!old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones -- Ramirez -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:ETDWBof how it's a foreboding place filled with evil.jpg|link=http://www.amazonMercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her.co.uk/dp/ETDWB/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagFrom objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-21]]  | styleburied secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp?}}{{Frontpage|isbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Tudor Chalk|title=The Chalk Man|author=C J Tudor|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=[[Even ''The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 Chalk Man'' follows a group of Tell Me When I'm Dead friends haunted by Steven Ramirez]]=== [[image:4an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] In By the time the third new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and final part of a girl will be dead. But who is the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' serieskiller; is it The Chalk Man, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the events of book two still weighing heavily on Davewhose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facility. As events come or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to a climaxforget about that summer, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group about all the poisoned, sinister memories of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims aliveThe Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of this alive? And what kind the summer of world will he have left? [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed'm Dead by Steven Ramirez|Full Review]]s sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?<!-- Ramirez -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=Hill_Strange| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Strange Weather|author=Joe Hill[[image:DIAYG.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/DIAYG/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Horror| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two Strange Weather is a collection of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]=== [[image:4four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Still battling the zombie hordes who first appeared in acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''Tell Me When I'm Deadthe beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up to rescue him and his wife Holly. But things only get worse – never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with the virus mutating, and the infected getting smarterraw beauty. When Dave discovers the truth behind the contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=Forever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez|Full Review]] <!-- Ramirez -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:TMWImDhis lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ESNCNG4/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]===}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hendrix_PBHell[[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:CategoryPaperbacks from Hell:A History of HorrorFiction from the '70s and '80s|Horror]]author=Grady Hendrix A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had a long road to recovery, but finally feels like he's getting his life back. Then - a plague hits the town, turning the majority of the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave the taste of humans. Fighting to survive - Dave's urge to hide away and drink is strong - will he fight to live when the chances of survival are so slim? With the hordes of the undead growing and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave... [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez|Full Review]] <!-- Sedgwick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788542304.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788542304/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well, the kind that is also mad, and dangerous to know), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of discussion all led a young woman to start writing her first, and definitely her most famous ever, book. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, in the centre of that first novel's world, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates it, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems to only be there and doing this for the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we read. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]] <!-- Clements -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Clements_Coffin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472204271/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements|Full Review]] <!-- Tudor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hill_Strange.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147322117X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147322117X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Strange Weather by Joe Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Strange Weather is a collection of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together'', never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty. [[Strange Weather by Joe Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Hendrix -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hendrix_PBHell|rating=4.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1594749817?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1594749817]]5 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|genre===[[Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s by Grady Hendrix]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Reference|Reference]] Demonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader's!) to relate the true, untold story of a fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing.
Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>
See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>
And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring. [[Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s by Grady Hendrix|Full Review]]}}<!-- Kehlmann -->|-{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kehlmann_Left.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/I1786484048/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[You Should Have Left by |author=Daniel Kehlmann and Ross Benjamin (translator)]]==|rating[[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] summary=Our narrator is a screenwriter, tasked with coming up with a sequel to his hit movie ''Besties'' – a film which helped pay for a house, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isn't art. To concentrate, the family – he, the wife, and their four -year -old daughter – have rented a large, modern house at the end of a horrid, hairpin bend-filled road, in a charming alpine landscape. But things aren't right. The couple are at loggerheads too much, things keep unsettling our narrator, and the sole shopkeeper for miles around is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings of strange events. Quickly we see the book's title in all its galling clarity – but it isn't too late to get out… is it? And out of what, exactly? }}Move on to [[You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann and Ross Benjamin (translator)|Full ReviewNewest Humour Reviews]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}