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{{Frontpage
|author=Mariana Enriquez
|title=A Sunny Place for Shady People
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|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
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008385068
|title=The Midnight Feast
|author=Lucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Richard Kadrey
|title=The Pale House Devil
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=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 couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and the other is undead, and so one of them kills the living, and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while and find 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, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!
|isbn=1803363894
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Harrison
|title=Bad Dolls
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.
|isbn=1803363932
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1803365110
|author=Chuck Tingle
|title=Camp Damascus
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=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 crime and, in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both a secular and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to show the reader the horror lurking within.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529382823
|title=The Last Passenger
|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a 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 his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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{{frontpage
|isbn=1803363002
|author= Eric LaRocca
|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There
|rating= 5
|genre= Horror
|summary= 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 ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK
|title=Dukkha
|author=Martin Hyde
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and the injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason ArnoppAmanda Mason|title=The Last Days of Jack SparksHiding Place|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=The great era of Lad Lit spanned Needing an escape from 1995-2005their turbulent life, but writers like Dave Gorman Nell Galilee takes her husband and Danny Wallace grew upstepdaughter to Whitby, so in 2016 where they are doing 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's something a little more serious like writing fictionnot quite right about Elder House. Jack Spark The atmosphere is an imaginary writer of this Lad Litunsettling and off – and 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, but whilst cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his first book had accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him on a pogo stick bouncing from one end monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of Britain sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to the othersay 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 this country where he might be a danger to his later books tackled gangs wife and drugsother children. For his final book he chose The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to tackle get the supernatural, a subject that could be the end of himyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507181</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Joshua Gaylord1787301435|title= When We Were AnimalsDark Waters|author=G R Halliday|rating= 4|genre= HorrorCrime|summary= For three nights every month Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the moon is full, children living private road in Glen Turrit. It was a small isolated town who have reached puberty experience 'breaching'. On these nights, their actions are dictated by either passion or violence – they become feral long road through some breath-taking scenery and animalistic abandoning their human nature she could push the car to run wild and naked its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the streetssteering wheel and hit a tree. Beginning When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, typically at 15 the breach lasts for approximately but it obviously wasn't a year and after, those children become adultsconventional hospital. She'When We Were Animals' follows Lumen Fowler's life growing up in the town expressing d made her desire to be different and avoid first mistake some time ago, although the townrealisation wouldn's rite of passage into adulthood. Lumen is determined not t be obvious to be overcome by the moon and control her own destiny; after all her mother didnfor a long time. She't 'breach' so neither will d made it when she. But slowly one by one chose to have her peers breach and she's left behind struggling to grow up, becoming more and more aware of father buy her dark wild sidea pale blue BMW M4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030957</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage
|author= Grady Hendrix
|title= My Best FriendThe Southern Book Club's ExorcismGuide to Slaying Vampires
|rating= 5
|genre= Horror
|summary=1988 Women, Charlestonby and large, South Carolinahave always been the subjugated sex. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen Throughout history they have been best friends since fourth gradeconfined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. But after Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins ode to actthe strong selfless housewife.Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a 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.different5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. She It's moodynot just the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. She Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's irritableAudi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever 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 broken, but she's nearbywants to forgive Michael. Abby To give some space, Tom's investigation leads her moved out of the family home, but stresses to some startling discoveries his thirteen-year- old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.}}{{Frontpage|author=Struan Murray and by Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Orphans of the Tide|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusionlast city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the fate world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of Abby and Gretchen will humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be determined by the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a single question: Is their friendship enough girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to beat execute the devil?boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>0241384435
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Olde Heuvelt1789090873|title=HexDread Nation|author=Justina Ireland
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Steve ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and Jocelyn had moved started to Black Spring 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 their boys were born. Now Tyler and Matt are teenagers and none of them could consider living anywhere else. Would this be due the dead began to walk the beautiful surroundings or streets. An event which is interrupting the closeness of civil war between the small town's camaraderie? No, it has more to do with a 17th century witch's cursestates altered American history forever. The same witch who still moves around In the townchanging world, spying on minorities are forced into conscription and under the good folk – new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the bad - from within their homesdead once and for all. They've come to an understanding with For Jane and other girls like her over , there is however the yearsopportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, but now the young people want to experiment attendants protect those higher in society and nothing will be the same againare valued above all else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444793217</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1444793217</amazonus>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471407764|title=The Twisted Tree|author= Darren ShanRachel Burge|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Martha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give and stumbles into a world of menace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788950720|title= Zom-B Goddess Whiteout (Zom B 12Red Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensHorror|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNINGAre you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Keith Lee Morris1538761858|title= Travelers RestThe Anomaly|author=Michael Rutger|rating= 4.5|genre= Horror|summary= I was a little bit sceptical Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of Travelers Rest at firstinternet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. A novel set in an old hotelImagine if, buried in snow, where strange things start happening? A young boy whose parents start instead of being scared by their own acting strangely, perhaps foreshadowing tragedy? Now Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that sounds familiaris the starting point of this book. But I managed to push away those thoughts, 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 I’m glad I did. The story may be well-known, but conspiracy thrown into the execution is all newblend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297608940</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Ransom1683690122|title=Beneath The LakeWe Sold Our Souls|author=Grady Hendrix|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=The Mercer family are on the holiday night manager of a lifetime at the somewhat remote Blundstone Lake in Nebraska. It Best Western, Kris Pulaski is all the things a camping holiday should be; tranquillity washed up and beautiful scenery in spades and lots unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of good old-fashioned family fun90'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''. When another family arrive, the Mercers try not a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to feel disappointed that their solitude a past she has been encroached upon tried to forget – and do their best to keep out of a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the other familyband. In a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, she's way, but when determined to face the newcomers' family disharmony becomes violent man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and murderousthreatening everything Kris holds dear, The Mercers have no option but will Kris be able to become rather more acquainted with them than they had bargained for. And so their lives are forever altered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555223</amazonuk>defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark MorrisETDWB|title=Even The Society Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Blood (Obsidian Heart book 2)Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=4.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=In order to find his kidnapped daughter Alex Locke still needs to find the Obsidian Heart. The trail leads back from 21st century gangland London to third and final part of the dark''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, dirty 19th century version of the capitalDave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. Here With the streets that witnessed Jack events of book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the Ripper's murders only rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a couple of years before are just as lethal but young escapee from the danger isn't totally humansecret testing facility. Alex doesn't quite know how you'd classify itAs events come to a climax, but it stands between him and the person Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who means flay their victims alive, the most to him so walking away isn't an option.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168709</amazonuk>stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left?
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