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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]==Horror==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa SigurdardottirMariana Enriquez|title=I Remember YouA Sunny Place for Shady People
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|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Too often, people – such as myself – refer to a book as being a rollercoaster readMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, mostly down to a simply topsy-turvy plot. But achieving this is the true embodiment uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of a white-knuckle ride. It has the anxiety of the queue as we watch three people – a couple and another young woman – get ferried across the fjord disused refrigerators due to one of western Iceland's most remote outpostsan urban planning mishap, with the aim being to renovate an old building as overcrowded homeless shelter and a guesthouse. There's the crunch of the rollcrime-cage protection bars locking us in as we find that something very malevolent is hiding in the tiny settlement. And just as the car starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbsridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine -up from those leaving the ride, telling us all is well and all survived.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel|title=Such Wicked Intent (Victor Frankenstein)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Such Wicked Intent'' takes us to a few months after the shocking conclusion to Victor Frankenstein's alchemical attempt to save his brother's life in [[This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel|This Dark Endeavour]]within Argentina. The Dark Library has been burned and circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the entire family is trying to move on. Elizabeth is secretly considering joining supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a convent. Henry is making plans to travel abroad with his merchant father. Victor's parents are trying to come to terms with everything but his mother is finding it particularly difficultsimilarly tangible texture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560166</amazonuk>1803511230
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ted Kosmatka0008385068|title=The GamesMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the near future Dorset coast and the Olympics go on, but not without changesguests gather at The Manor. A new event has been added to those that weIt'd recognise: genetically engineered gladiatorial combats their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. This is no holds barred competition, with one rule: each countryIt's gladiator must be devoid of any human DNAall headed up by Francesca Meadows. Indeed, America is so good that their team has won all The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the last three games' goldswealthy and famous. Her husband, thanks to geneticist Dr Silas WilliamsOwen, but this year was the architect and work is differentstill ongoing on parts of the site. This year he has nothing to do with The heat is oppressive and amongst the design; someone sent a single design criterion to an experimental intelligence computerguests are enemies as well as friends. (You just know that was a bad idea day donOld scores are going to be settled and it won't you?) The design criteria be long before a body is just one sentence, just words, but words can be misunderstood and misunderstanding can be devastating for more than just genetically manufactured gladiatorsfound.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781164142</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mira GrantRichard Kadrey|title=BlackoutThe Pale House Devil|rating=54
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|summary=The last thing Georgia Mason remembers is her brother Shaun putting Ford and Neuland are a bullet in couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the base way I thought of her neck. So how come she's alive and kicking and locked in some CDC facility somewhere? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499005</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shams Uddin|title=The Year from Jahannam|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Wright family begin a blog in January 2011. They all want to celebrate them through the book was as a new start after the turmoil couple of recent years. Father Richard had been a casualty strange detectives! One of the financial crisisthem is living, working for Lehman Brothers at the time of its collapseyou see, and the ensuing chaos had affected the entire family one way or another. But Richard retrainedother is undead, secured a new job and has recently earned a huge bonus. At last so one of them kills the family are back on track living, and enjoying the fruits of hard labour. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957175205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cherie Priest|title=Eden Moore - Wings to other kills the Kingdom|rating=4undead.5|genre=Crime|summary=Dead soldiers from the American Civil War have been seen wandering around the Chickamauga National Park in Georgia (Only not each other, site of a notable Confederate victory in 1863obviously). They don't speakre on a job in New York that goes badly, just point forlornly as locals turn and flee in so they head out to the opposite direction. Eden Moore would rather ignore it completely, especially as show business psychics Tripp West coast to try to lay low for a while and Diana Marshall have already started investigating, complete with camera crew and full entouragefind some other work to keep them going. However, eventually her curiosity (and her friendsBut when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' unstinting nagging) gets that appears to her be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and she agrees to trespass after dark, quickly discovering a terrifyingly powerful creature that the gesticulating dead are a minor problem compared to the reason they've awoken.never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857687735</amazonuk>1803363894
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew FukudaRachel Harrison|title=The HuntBad Dolls
|rating=4
|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=Gene - not that he remembers heIt's called Gene - is one been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the few remaining survivors in books from a city peopled by vampires. His mother and sister were killed when he was just tiny boy I fancied at school and his father finally succumbed scaring myself half silly with them to a fang bite infection some years before. Genethe 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's life is all about concealment. He shaves his body hair. Het have those jump scares, and I didn's careful t have to avoid any situation in which he might sweat - swimming read it during daylight hours only! But it is okcreepy, but other sports and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are not. He files his nails. He behavesstories about women, alwaysliving normal lives, and that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a vampire would behave. Everything is breakup, trying a new dieting app, going so well until the Heper Hunt is announced..to a hen party and a coping with grief. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075411</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Martine McDonaghChuck Tingle|title=I Have Waited, and You Have ComeCamp Damascus
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Set 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 1952 in Yorkshirethe US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both a young couple move into secular and a rented flat. Philip is the newreligious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, young doctor while in his new wife Isabel struggles with the isolated life with no friends or family and Philiphorror, ''Camp Damascus''s frequent absence due to the demands of his job. Things take a turn to the spooky when, waking from under peels back the warmth skin of Christian ''pray the old greatcoat Isabel finds in gay away'' camps to show the flat, she hears a tapping at reader the window and finds there an RAF pilot, Alec, who appears to know Isabel intimatelyhorror lurking within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099564939</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Hodkin1529382823|title=The Unbecoming Of Mara DyerLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Mara Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has just started her whole life over - new city, new school, new startfound herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. It Caz's just what the doctor orderedsister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and her family - though still treating her like she might fall apart at any moment - are tentatively hopeful that itdoesn't know whether she's just what she needs relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get back on her feetto know him a bit better. Mara just hopes her memories return Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. She needs It's going to know what happened the night her two best friends and her boyfriend died in an accident she somehow managed to escape unscathed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707363X</amazonuk>be good, isn't it?
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{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Gerry O'HaraEric LaRocca|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In TransylvaniaTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Horror|summary=I normally start reviews with Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides the point way to do so for reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania'. From those seven wordsBig Bad'', the reader will have no doubt guessed whether that this is a Holmes meets Dracula storyhome invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and so we may as well move straight on to , by the end of the burning question – is it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|title=Monsterstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's Corner|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=''The Monster's CornerTrees Grew Because I Bled There'' is a collection of tales not like that are told from the monster's perspective. It takes the idea that we are all the heroes of our own story and has is a gloriously good time with it. Ranging from the thought-provoking to the strange, to the shocking and gory – they're a great selection collection of short stories from more interested in the likes horrors of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]]illness, [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin Jgrief and humiliation. Anderson]], Sarah Pinborough Horrors that linger and many othersare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colson WhiteheadB0BHR8KWSK|title=Zone OneDukkha|author=Martin Hyde
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=To start, for once, with Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and the bookinjustice of his imprisonment? Why? 's style - this has probably the least dialogue of any book you'll read this year. There are some comments from characters, but theyWhy?'re few and far between - as are those characters that can actually speak. For we're in a devastated New York, later this century, and our three main protagonists are cleaning up after a worldwide plague of zombies. The active ones have mostly been gunned down by the military, but there are a few still locked away in hidden corners - as well as inactive ones, called stragglers, who seem stuck in one instant, whether finishing off their last office job for the millionth time, or like a ghost haunting a place relevant to them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846555981</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Niki ValentineChristopher Golden|title=The HauntedRoad of Bones
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=ValentineThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's novel opens with one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a sinister tale that has nothing to do with haunted boths – but everything to do with rotting relationshipshuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Susan Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and Martin are attempting because he wanted to have give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a second honeymoon life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but the dynamic between them that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is clearly flawed from a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the very start. Susan seems project to fruition to be experiencing feelings claw back some of seemingly hysteriathe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-driven lovechatty local guide, continually alternating with resentment. The opening scenes are played out in gain the relative calm company of a smart hotellocal beauty, but the tension and irritations between fetch up at the couple are painfully clearguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751545082</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillAlly Wilkes|title=The Woman in Black|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Arthur Kipps is a young solicitor working in a fog-bound London and soon to be married. All looks rosy for Arthur until one day he is called into his boss' office where he is tasked with the affairs of the deceased recluse Alice Drablow. Alice Drablow had lived in the melancholy village of Crythin Gifford in an isolated house on the remote Eel Marsh, a house only accessible by a strange causeway when the tide is out. It is here Arthur must travel to firstly represent his firm at her funeral and then to sift through Mrs Drablow's house to ensure all her legal paperwork is in order. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685621</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thierry Jonquet|title=Tarantula: The Skin I Live In|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In a large French country house, an expert in facial reconstruction surgery keeps a beautiful woman locked up in her bedroom. He placates her with opium, but barks orders through hugely powerful speakers and an intercom. She tantalises him with her sexuality, which he tries to ignore, except for when he seems to abuse it in a sort of S/M way when he does let her into society, as he forces her to prostitute herself. Elsewhere, a young, inept bank robber holes himself up in a sunny house, waiting for the heat to die. And finally, a young man is held chained up in a cellar at the hands of an unknown possessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ira Levin|title=Rosemary's BabyWhite Spaces
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Ever since 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 fresh start, and the untimely death opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his sisterparents. However, Shaun Mason has been alive, but not much more so than Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the zombies that populate confines of his post-apocalyptic worldpast and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. For Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the man who built party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a career menacing presence waits to prey on poking dead things with a sticktheir darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, just he will have to face his demons once and for laughsall, life's just no fun anymoreor risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498998</amazonuk>1789097835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim NewmanAmanda Mason|title=Anno DraculaThe Hiding Place
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=The story begins in London. It is 1888 and Queen Victoria is on the throne. She has recently remarriedNeeding an escape from their turbulent life, taking as Nell Galilee takes her husband the infamous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula's influence is all around London as more and more of its citizens turn willingly stepdaughter to vampirismWhitby, whilst others resist its temptations. A distinct sense of social and political unrest is in the air as factions speak out against where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the race name of vampires, somehow spurred on by the serial killer at largeElder House. Known at first as She hopes that it will be the Silver Knife, but later as Jack the Ripper, this killer targets young vampire women in Whitechapel, prostitutes who have recently turned perfect place to vampirism, known as new-bornssort things out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857680838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We pick up exactly where we left off in this second book in David GatwardBut there's something not quite right about Elder House. The Dead series. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice), been to the world of the Dead (don't ask), become a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen atmosphere is unsettling and off), – and has gone some way before long Nell starts to locating his father (prisoner of the Dark suspect that she and seriously not having a good time of it). Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a mission. her family aren't alone there…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>1838771964}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson8409290103|title=EpitaphIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=To state Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the obvious, all of us are afraid of different thingsyoung man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Gina, Patrick sent the money regularly and a woman having an affair in cheap hotels, is scared correspondence - of getting caughtsorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Paul It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, mid-30s and in advertising, sees the redundancy notice it was that hedidn's just been handed as prelude t care to have him in this country where he might be a nightmarish future. And Laura, 8, can find the underpass from school danger to home, his wife and echoing footsteps within it, too spookyother children. The nastiest thing about this book is that for all these characters, they're forced beyond these horrors, alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to find something even more frighteningget the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497649</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Stross1787301435|title=The Fuller MemorandumDark Waters|author=G R Halliday
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Our world is not as it seems. We share it with aliens, zombies, demonic spirits, with ancient godTwenty-two-year-like entities that are all keen old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to eat our bodies and devour our soulsdrive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It's lucky, then, that we have was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the British secret service car to protect us, more specifically a top secret branch its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the secret service called The Laundrysteering wheel and hit a tree. This organisation is so secret that even When she came round after the bosses at MI6 donaccident she couldn't know of its existencework out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. The point of She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although the Laundry is realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to keep all the myriad of terrors endangering the Earth at bay by the careful use of science, technology and magic, magic being have her father buy her a little known branch of applied mathspale blue BMW M4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497703</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonGrady Hendrix|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through TimeThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=45|genre=TeensHorror|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick of a book: Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the prospect of settling down for hours powerful man and hours of reading pleasure 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 very tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fans, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety ode to the mixstrong selfless housewife. It's absolutely ideal for Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a holiday readpredatory male vampire who moves in to their quiet cul de sac.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>1683691431
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Masello1529009677|title=Blood and IceA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=Journalist Michael Wilde cannot pass Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just the opportunity usual growing apart after more than a decade of spending some time at a research station in Antarcticamarriage. His girlfriend is Their son, Michael, was killed in what could be a permanent coma following a trip that they both made together car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and he needs at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to get away. Expecting to see some amazing sights, he is not disappointeddrive. What Not only did he was not expecting, however, was to find a block of ice during a diving expedition in which kill himself when the bodies of a man car rammed into a womantree, perfectly preservedbut he also killed his girlfriend, were chained togetherfifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. By their side were several bottles Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of what appeared shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants to be wineforgive Michael. However To give some space, once Tom's moved out of the bodies are brought family home, but stresses to the surface and defrosthis thirteen-year-old daughter, strange things start to happen and before longHolly, everyone at the research station that it is fighting for their livesonly a trial separation. Will Michael ever manage to return home safely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith Struan Murray and Tony LeeManuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic NovelOrphans of the Tide|rating=35|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you In the last city on Earth, anyone can say ''be the risen undead'' it will become a series vessel of books, inspiring others, and/or lead The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the same story being published in many different guiseslast of humanity. Here, then, on its way to Hollywood, When a mysterious boy is Jane Austen’s story pulled from the corpse of Lizzie Benneta whale, the feisty citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young woman trying Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off execute the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she boy, Ellie must prove that he is until the hidden truths open up to innocent - even if it means revealing herdeepest, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remainsdarkest secrets.. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>0241384435
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Golden (Editor)1789090873|title=Zombie: An Anthology of the UndeadDread Nation|author=Justina Ireland
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Anyone who enjoys a good horror story ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and likes zombie films will love this book, which is started to walk on a collection of nineteen short stories by battlefield in a variety small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg '' Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of authors. I have Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to admit that I have only heard of one of walk the authors before - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]], who writes streets. An event which is interrupting the [[The Naming of civil war between the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - but I am not an avid reader of states altered American history forever. In the genre changing world, minorities are forced into conscription and don't doubt that under the authors will be known new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to readers more familiar with itdestroy the dead once and for all. Despite this unfamiliarityFor Jane and other girls like her, I thoroughly enjoyed most of there is however the storiesopportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, with just one or two seemingly not up to scratchattendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Jackson Bennett1471407764|title=Mr ShiversThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Marcus Connelly, a quiet, reserved and private man, Martha's world has recently joined the mass of humanity travelling west in search of workchanged. It's the Midwest Blind in the 1930s and the Great Depression is in full swing. The dustbowl is one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a desperate place and there's none more desperate than Connellydisturbing gift. But Connelly She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't need a job really want, and he has a wife and a home. Connelly isnknowledge she doesn't missing prosperity; heunderstand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's missing his daughtercabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give and he's in search stumbles into a world of the man who killed hermenace. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498572</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie Huston 1788950720|title=My Dead Body Whiteout (Joe Pitt CasebookRed Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan|rating=4.5
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|summary=Joe Pitt's New York is one riddled with Vampyres, infected by a Vyrus that makes them drink blood and die in the sun. It is also a wasteland of lawless tribes of Vampyres, gang warfare carving Are you up Manhattan into territories, each with their own leaders, specialist workers, fighters, animosities. As we start book five, Joe's New York is actually for a subterranean one, as he hides from everyone in the sewers and tunnelssleepless night or two? If so, until the enterprise of a top dog character flushes him out, and tells Pitt to find his daughter - a messianic poster girl for the future of the city.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496820</amazonuk>}}read on!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=F G Cottam9386897385|title=The Magdalena CurseNothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon|rating=23.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Mark Hunter is We never know the sort of father who would do anything for his sonman's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. After losing It's what his wife and daughter in a tragic accidentmother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his surviving son Adam has become his whole world. And Adam mother is an exceptional child – beautifulalive, incredibly smart if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and mature beyond his ten years – only recently hedrinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's been channelling the voices not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of the deadyears in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. Plagued by horrific dreams, able She wants him to speak Russian achieve something in his life: what she has in the hours after mind is that he wakes, drawing occult symbols when he doodles, Hunter believes Adam to could be possessed. Doctor Elizabeth Bancroft is sceptical, until she meets Adam, and witnesses the horrors the poor boy endures for herselfa famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley1538761858|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Young Robert is put on a train back to school by his stepmother. It's the first journey he's made on his own. It turns out to be more of a challenge than he could ever have imagined. The train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and while 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>}} {{newreviewAnomaly|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly|title=Tales of Death and DementiaMichael Rutger
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=A man gets viciously beaten up by unknown assailants in a North London street. Only afterwards do we discover anything about him Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X- he is a teacherFiles episode, with a dead daughterfor the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, an estranged wifeinstead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and after the assault a new-Yvette Fielding actually found urge to flee, and to move on to something and somewhere new; that is the starting point of this book. Meanwhile, Deep in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in rural Buckinghamshire, odd things are happening. People are brutally killing and displaying animals, while unconnected teenagers a Stephen King plot with both long-term aims added levels of paranoia and immediate intentions, are suddenly and flippantly killing themselvesconspiracy thrown into the blend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497657</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie Huston1683690122|title=Every Last Drop (Joe Pitt)We Sold Our Souls|author=Grady Hendrix|rating=45
|genre=Horror
|summary=Joe Pitt The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a heavy-drinkingband once tipped for greatness, chain-smokingbut destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, superhuman Vampyrerocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. A rogue in When a secret world 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 bloodlust set in to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the heart of The Bronxband. Away In a journey that will take Kris from the steady infrastructure of American societya dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, the various Vampyre clans have found the perfect place she's determined to hide themselves away from face the 'Van Helsings' of their worldman who ruined her life. The clans, each But with their own agendadark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, have claimed a piece of The Bronx as their territory and over will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the years have established themselves well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496812</amazonuk>Earth…?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carrie RyanETDWB|title=Even The Forest Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Hands and TeethTell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez
|rating=4.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Mary has lived her whole life in a village in In the middle third and final part of the Forest of Hands and Teeth''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, protected from the Unconsecrated by a fence. Life in the village Dave Pulaski is simple if you follow the rules headed to Los Angeles – obey seeking revenge and retribution. With the Sisterhood for they know bestevents of book two still weighing heavily on Dave, preserve he struggles against the next generation by marrying rage burning inside him and having children and stay away saves Sasha – a young escapee from the fencesecret testing facility. Then Mary's mother is bitten when she strays too close As events come to the fencea climax, looking for her husband who was lost some months ago. The Guardians want to kill her before she turns and becomes Unconsecrated, but Mary's mother chooses to live and join her husband in the Forest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575090847</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Gaiman|title=Coraline|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Coraline has just moved to a new flat in a huge converted old house. It's the summer holidays, but her parents Dave finds himself pursued by both work from home but are busy, so operate a general policy of benign neglect. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible on the ground floor offer Coraline the odd cup of tea an ex- military sociopath and read its leaves to boot. The crazy old man upstairs is busy training a mouse circus. There's plenty group of scope for exploring in scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, the grounds, and so that's stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what Coraline does, just as Alice did before she found Wonderland. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597308</amazonuk>kind of world will he have left?
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