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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Mariana Enriquez|title=HorrorA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=5|genre=Short Stories__NOTOC__|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley0008385068|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Young Robert is put on a train back to school by his stepmother. It's midsummer on the first journey heDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's made on his owntheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It turns out to be more of a challenge than he could ever have imagined's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The train stalls at Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the mouth of a tunnel wealthy and while famous. Her husband, Owen, was the other passengers sleep through the wait, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a difference. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allan Poe architect and Gris Grimly|title=Tales of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master work is still ongoing on parts of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[site. The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman heat is oppressive and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Poe's ''Tales of Death Old scores are going to be settled and Dementiait won'' are shown off at their very best in this editiont be long before a body is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shaun HutsonRichard Kadrey|title=Last RitesThe Pale House Devil

|summary=A man gets viciously beaten up by unknown assailants in Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a North London street. couple of strange detectives! Only afterwards do we discover anything about him - he One of them is a teacherliving, with a dead daughteryou see, an estranged wifeand the other is undead, and after so one of them kills the assault a new-found urge to fleeliving, and to move on to something and somewhere newthe other kills the undead. Meanwhile(Only not each other, obviously). They're on a job in rural BuckinghamshireNew York that goes badly, odd things are happening. People are brutally killing and displaying animals, so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while unconnected teenagers with both long-term aims and immediate intentionsfind some other work to keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, are suddenly and flippantly killing themselves.a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497657</amazonuk>1803363894

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HustonRachel Harrison|title=Every Last Drop (Joe Pitt)Bad Dolls

|summary=Joe Pitt Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a heavy-drinkingcrime and, chain-smokingin the US, superhuman Vampyrenearly 700 000 adults have received it. A rogue in Although it is both a secret world of violence secular and bloodlust set a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the heart skin of The Bronx. Away from the steady infrastructure of American society, the various Vampyre clans have found Christian ''pray the perfect place to hide themselves gay away from the 'Van Helsings' of their world. The clans, each with their own agenda, have claimed a piece of The Bronx as their territory and over camps to show the reader the years have established themselves wellhorror lurking within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496812</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carrie Ryan1529382823|title=The Forest of Hands and TeethLast Passenger|author=Will Dean

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=Mary Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has lived her whole life found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a village cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the middle of the Forest of Hands his suit pocket and Teeth, protected from the Unconsecrated by she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a fence. Life in the village is simple if you follow the rules – obey the Sisterhood couple for they know best, preserve the next generation by marrying that long and having children and stay away from the fencetrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better.  Then Mary Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother is bitten when she strays too close to the fence, looking for her husband who was lost some months agohas dementia. The Guardians want It's going to kill her before she turns and becomes Unconsecratedbe good, but Maryisn's mother chooses to live and join her husband in the Forest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575090847</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Neil GaimanEric LaRocca|title=CoralineThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersHorror|summary=Coraline has just moved Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a new flat in a huge converted old house. It's the summer holidays'Big Bad'', but her parents both work from whether that is a home but are busyinvader, so operate a general policy of benign neglect. Miss Spink monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and Miss Forcible on , by the ground floor offer Coraline end of the odd cup of tea - and read its leaves to bootstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The crazy old man upstairs Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is busy training a mouse circus. There's plenty collection of scope for exploring short stories more interested in the groundshorrors of illness, grief and so humiliation. Horrors thatlinger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''s what Coraline does, just as Alice did before she found Wonderland. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597308</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer RardinB0BHR8KWSK|title=One More Bite (Jaz Parks)Dukkha|author=Martin Hyde|rating=4.5

|summary=''You are Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and the business injustice of ghost releasehis imprisonment? Why? ''Why?''

WellBut of course, when that he knows why. Sam is asked of a vampire CIA assassin an erstwhile drug dealer who has lived through untold horrors escaped this down and seen innumerable deaths, dirty life by going to a retreat and Jaz Sparksemerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning to join the community in his old neighbourhood, he knew his spunky human-past would be hard to escape but-getting-less-so-with-every-book colleague-turned-lover, he hadn't imagined it only comes down as exploding into this new life in quite such a major understatementviolent fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497096</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RansomGolden|title=The Birthing House Road of Bones

|summary=Spooky, sprawling house out in The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the sticks – checkR504. RelocatedStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, young, childless, vulnerable couple – checkit's one of the world's most notorious routes. Slow drip-drip For months of the odd to chill the male year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the couple permafrost surrounding it, while she is away in its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a working assignment – checklife every metre it covers. Slow dripYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-drip maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the odd to chill funds he'd invested in the reader? pair's prior TV projects. WellThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, given patiencegain the company of a local beauty, yes, somewhatand fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751541710</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shaun HutsonAlly Wilkes|title=Body CountAll the White Spaces

|summary=There is In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a certain edge fresh start, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the prologue party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to this latest Shaun Hutsonprey on their darkness. Is If Jonathan is to make it a futuristic slasherout of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or a sci-fi slasherrisk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Mason|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an otherworldly fantasy slasher? Youescape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there'll see the connection among my suggestions s something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – this is a Shaun Hutson bookand before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, after allMr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and we can expect no leta correspondence - of sorts -sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in the gore this country where he might be a danger to his wife and carnage over other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the few hundred pages to followyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494348</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Holt1787301435|title=The DevouringDark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Meet Reggie, a fifteen Twenty-two-year -old girl who cannot quite come Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to terms with its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a tree. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd made her younger brother Henryfirst mistake some time ago, although the realisation wouldn's behaviourt be obvious to her for a long time. Is She'd made it down when she chose to have her awakening at last father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.}}{{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to boys Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by and driving lessons? Is it thatlarge, due have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to an easily diverted father and a mother mere bit players who left occasionally help hold up the household months ago, she powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is fed up an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with being a free babysitter? predatory male vampire who moves in to their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529009677|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. Or is It's not just the real reason usual growing apart after more akin than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to what drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is in a scratchy journal broken, but she finds due wants to her working in an occult bookshop? forgive Michael. Is Henry in fact To give some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only going to dark a trial separation.}}{{Frontpage|author=Struan Murray and disagreeable places and moods due Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Orphans of the Tide|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to possession by wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a Vourwhale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a devilish entity girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that thrives on developing then dining on fear?he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141325267</amazonuk>0241384435

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Rardin1789090873|title=Bitten to Death (Jaz Parks)Dread Nation|author=Justina Ireland|rating=45

|summary=''Slash'' – Two days after I was born … the sound of vampires lashing out at each other – a noise dead rose up and activity you'll have started to get used to when reading this book and the three prequels. Vayl is walk on a battlefield in a vampire working on behalf of humankind, despatching the nastier side of the undead as and when required. small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''

''Crunch'' – Dread Nation narrates the past colliding with unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the present in this latest mission, as Vayl and his human counterpart Jaz encounter a Grecian troupe of vampires, about dead began to be taken over it would appear by walk the baddy of baddies, Samosstreets. Jaz has to face up to An event which is interrupting the civil war between the fact that Vayl has a states altered American history with this band of vampsforever. Which is nothing compared 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 present he dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a certain female among them better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are to sharevalued above all else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497088</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurell K Hamilton 1471407764|title=Blood Noir (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)The Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=3.5

|summary=I donMartha't think all this can be blamed on Mr Bram Stokers world has changed. Of course there is Blind in one eye after falling from a sexual element to the exchange of bodily fluids of his Dracula and his victimstree, but this has become too much in this example of what she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can only now be loosely termed vampire horror. Anita Blakeread people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, US Marshall with distinction in killing unwanted undeadrevealing insights she doesn't really want, due and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to some part-supernatural skills of her owngrandmother, lives with at least Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one regular sexual partner, Nathaniel, but takes herself off with Jason, an occasional lover is prepared to give and full-time werewolf, to help himstumbles into a world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149691X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Chris Blythe Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and Steven Parkhouse |title=Angel Fire|rating=4he's not a popular kid.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=John Dury and his partner Zee are businessmen you would find it hard Charlie tends to like. Hard-hitting, gooff by himself -getting types, they spend their leisure hours taking drugs, and their company time making smashnot always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort -and-grab raids on family firmsthis is what brings him into contact with one of the ski guides, carving them up and selling Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the relics off piecemeal. Their boss, Mr Belial, rewards their more amoral business successes with escorts in their scanties, happiest backstory and yet more narcotics – the trendiest street drug of which is Angel Fire, this forms a new chemical that can easily take you to heavenconnection between them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844429180</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Celia Friedman 9386897385|title=Feast of Souls Nothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary=Whilst I tend We never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to read fantasy more than any other genre these dayscall him, my not least because he found it annoying. When we first love has always been the horror genremeet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. So when an author promises me When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a fantasy novel with couple of years in a dark twistmental hospital, then I am always likely but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be interesteda famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495328</amazonuk>

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Rardin 1538761858|title=Biting the BulletThe Anomaly|author=Michael Rutger|rating=45

|summary=Things aren’t getting better Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for Jaz Parks, and her gang of undead, near-dead and just plain odd hunter-killersthe Youtube era. The uberbaddy prevalent throughout Join the series seems to have got a new dogsbody, The Wizard – one who is able to bring the reavers – soul-eating nasties – back to life intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as zombie versions that are even harder to kill. A trip they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to hell (or a dream resembling thatspoilers) has brought suggestions from Mum that things aren’t going to be getting betteractually find one. Imagine if, or easierinstead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and tells Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of jobs unfinishedthis book. Deep in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496405</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1683690122{{newreview|title=We Sold Our Souls|author=Charlie HustonGrady Hendrix|titlerating=Half the Blood of Brooklyn (Joe Pitt Novel)5

|rating=3.5|summary=The scratchy maps at the start night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. Few know of the book show how the world her past as guitarist of Brooklyn and Manhattan has been separated into gang territories 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – gangs of Vampyresa band once tipped for greatness, the undead forced that way through some form of viral contagion. The Societybut destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, that Joe Pitt works for rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a gopher, hard man past she has tried to forget – and possibly just mule, able to be played like a puppet on deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the band. In a string, journey that have their world centred on Greenwich, are rebuffing an approach will take Kris from the Docksa dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, over she's determined to face the Brooklyn Bridgeman who ruined her life. This is easily done, But with a few quick axe slashesdark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, but no-one, not Pitt, not will Kris be able to defeat the moll of the gang, Lydia, and not even odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the head honcho, Terry, can predict just how volatile the whole of New York is becoming.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496804</amazonuk>Earth…?

 {{newreview Frontpage|isbn=ETDWB|title=Unmarked GravesEven The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Shaun HutsonSteven Ramirez|rating=4.5

|rating=4|summary=This horror In the third and final part of the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the events of book certainly raises questionstwo still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facility. How can the author so successfully manage As events come to tie in a climax, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, the initial threads into stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what boils down to a zombie novelkind of world will he have left? }}

A tall, charismatic African political leader (or terrorist, depending Move on whose side you're on) leaves the scene of a woman he has butchered to death in a gruesome little episode, and flees across the continent as any emigrant would. An emigrant with armed bodyguards willing to take any amount of bullets, that is.  |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149433X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Humour Reviews]]