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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]==Horror==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GatwardMariana Enriquez|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=We pick up exactly where we left off in Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this second book in David Gatward's The Dead series. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice), been uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to the world of the Dead (don't ask)an urban planning mishap, become an overcrowded homeless shelter and a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen off), and has gone some way to locating his father (prisoner crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the Dark and seriously not having a good time of it). Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a missionsimilarly tangible texture. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>1803511230

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson0008385068|title=EpitaphThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=To state It's midsummer on the obvious, all of us Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are afraid of different thingspromised. Gina, a woman having an affair in cheap hotels, is scared of getting caughtIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Paul, mid-30s The Manor was her ancestral home and in advertising, sees the redundancy notice heshe's just been handed as prelude to a nightmarish futureconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. And LauraHer husband, 8Owen, can find was the underpass from school to home, architect and echoing footsteps within it, too spookywork is still ongoing on parts of the site. The nastiest thing about this book heat is that for all these characters, theyoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won're forced beyond these horrors, to find something even more frighteningt be long before a body is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497649</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charles StrossRichard Kadrey|title=The Fuller MemorandumPale House Devil

|genre=Science FictionHorror|summary=Our world 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 not as it seems. We share it with aliensliving, you see, zombiesand the other is undead, demonic spiritsand so one of them kills the living, with ancient god-like entities that are all keen to eat our bodies and devour our soulsthe other kills the undead. It (Only not each other, obviously). They's luckyre on a job in New York that goes badly, then, that we have and so they head out to the British secret service West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to protect us, more specifically keep them going. But when a top secret branch of the secret service young woman called The Laundry. This organisation is so secret that even Tilda hires them to kill the bosses at MI6 don't know of its existence. The point of the Laundry is something' that appears to keep all the myriad be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of terrors endangering the Earth at bay by the careful use of sciencefamily history, technology and magic, magic being a little known branch of applied maths.terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497703</amazonuk>1803363894

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonRachel Harrison|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through TimeBad Dolls

|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=There is something really satisfying about It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a huge brick couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a book: boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the prospect point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of settling down for 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 hours I found most of reading pleasure is 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 tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fansnormal situations such as a breakup, because it contains three whole storiestrying a new dieting app, adding variety going to the mix. It's absolutely ideal for a holiday readhen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>1803363932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Robert MaselloChuck Tingle|title=Blood and IceCamp Damascus|rating=43.5

|summary=Journalist Michael Wilde cannot pass the opportunity of spending some time at a research station in Antarctica. His girlfriend Love is in what could love; although humans continue to be a permanent coma following a trip that they both made together and he needs to get awayconfused by this sentiment. Expecting to see some amazing sights, he Gay conversion therapy is not disappointedongoing. What he was not expecting, however, was The UK government ruled out plans to find make it a block of ice during a diving expedition crime and, in which the bodies of US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both a man secular and a womanreligious prejudice, perfectly preservedChuck Tingle, were chained together. By their side were several bottles in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of what appeared to be wine. However, once Christian ''pray the bodies are brought gay away'' camps to show the surface and defrost, strange things start to happen and before long, everyone at reader the research station is fighting for their liveshorror lurking within. Will Michael ever manage to return home safely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523876</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee1529382823|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic NovelLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers|summary=It Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie storymiddle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Before you can say They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica'the risen undead'. Caz' it will become a series of bookss sister, inspiring othersGemma, 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 lead disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to the same story being published in many different guisesget to know him a bit better. HereMeanwhile, thenGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, on its isn't it?}}{{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 Hollywoodreflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Benneta home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the feisty young woman trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''manky unmentionablesThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' – at least she is until not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the hidden truths open up to herhorrors of illness, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel formdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|title=Zombie: An Anthology But of the Undead|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Anyone course, he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who enjoys escaped this down and dirty life by going to a good horror story retreat and likes zombie films will love this book, which is a collection of nineteen short stories by emerging as a variety of authorsneophyte Buddhist monk. I have Recently returning to admit that I have only heard of one of join the authors before - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]]community in his old neighbourhood, who writes the [[The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - he knew his past would be hard to escape but I am not an avid reader of the genre and donhe hadn't doubt that the authors will be known to readers more familiar with imagined it. Despite exploding into this unfamiliarity, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the stories, with just one or two seemingly not up to scratchnew life in quite such a violent fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Jackson BennettChristopher Golden|title=Mr ShiversRoad of Bones|rating=3.5

|summary=Marcus Connelly, a quiet, reserved and private man, has recently joined The Kolyma Highway… the mass 'Road of humanity travelling west in search of workBones'… the R504. It Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the Midwest in world's most notorious routes. For months of the 1930s and year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the Great Depression is in full swing. The dustbowl is permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a desperate place and there's none more desperate than Connellyhuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. But Connelly doesn I don't need a job think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he has wanted to give too many people a wife and lesson, it legendarily cost a homelife every metre it covers. Connelly isn You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that't missing prosperity; hes a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig's missing Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his daughtercameraman buddy, and John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's in search prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the man who killed herguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498572</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie Huston Ally Wilkes|title=My Dead Body (Joe Pitt Casebook)All the White Spaces

|summary=Joe Pitt's New York is one riddled with VampyresIn post-WWI England, infected Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by a Vyrus that makes them drink blood and die in the sunfamous Australis Randall. It is also For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a wasteland of lawless tribes of Vampyresfresh start, gang warfare carving up Manhattan into territoriesand the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, each with their own leaders, specialist workers, fighters, animositieswithout the disapproval and constraints of his parents. As we start book fiveHowever, JoeJonathan isn's New York is actually t the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a subterranean onefuneral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, as he hides from everyone in mistrust and grief stalk the sewers party and, when disaster strikes and tunnelsthey are forced to overwinter on land, until the enterprise of a top dog character flushes him menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it outof the Arctic winter alive, and tells Pitt he will have to find face his daughter - a messianic poster girl demons once and for all, or risk making the future of the citybarren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496820</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreview|author=Shirley Jackson|title=The Haunting of Hill House|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=There was a time before Stephen King. There was time before ''The Shining''. There was a time when 'horror' was not rooted in blood, guts and gore. I owe a slight apology to Mr King, because along with the gutsier side of the genre, I will own that he is a master at suspense.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191449</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=F G CottamAmanda Mason|title=The Magdalena CurseHiding Place|rating=23.5

|summary=Mark Hunter is the sort of father who would do anything for his son. After losing his wife and daughter in a tragic accident, his surviving son Adam has become his whole world. And Adam is Needing an exceptional child – beautifulescape from their turbulent life, incredibly smart Nell Galilee takes her husband and mature beyond his ten years – only recently he's been channelling stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the voices name of the deadElder House. Plagued by horrific dreams, able to speak Russian in She hopes that it will be the hours after he wakes, drawing occult symbols when he doodles, Hunter believes Adam perfect place to be possessedsort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. Doctor Elizabeth Bancroft The atmosphere is sceptical, until unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she meets Adam, and witnesses the horrors the poor boy endures for herself.her family aren't alone there…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980982</amazonuk>1838771964}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley8409290103|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Young Robert is put 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 young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a train back monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to school by his stepmothersay than Patrick. Itwasn't that Lowry senior didn's the first journey t care for his son, it was that hedidn's made on his own. It turns out t care to have him in this country where he might be more of a challenge than he could ever have imagineddanger to his wife and other children. The train stalls at alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get 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 differenceyoung man on his way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly1787301435|title=Tales of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDark Waters|author=Shaun Hutson|title=Last RitesG R Halliday

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=A man gets viciously beaten up by unknown assailants Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in a North London streetGlen Turrit. Only afterwards do we discover anything about him It was a long road through some breath- he is a teacher, with a dead daughter, an estranged wife, taking scenery and after she could push the assault a new-found urge car to flee, 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 to move on to something and somewhere newhit a tree. MeanwhileWhen she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, in rural Buckinghamshire, odd things are happeningbut it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. People are brutally killing and displaying animalsShe'd made her first mistake some time ago, while unconnected teenagers with both although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long-term aims and immediate intentions, are suddenly and flippantly killing themselvestime. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497657</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HustonGrady Hendrix|title=Every Last Drop (Joe Pitt)The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=45|genre=Horror|summary=Joe Pitt is a heavy-drinking Women, chain-smokingby and large, superhuman Vampyrehave always been the subjugated sex. A rogue in a secret world of violence Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and bloodlust set let nothing stand in the heart of his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Bronx. Away from the steady infrastructure of American society, the various Vampyre clans have found the perfect place Southern Book Club's Guide to hide themselves away from the Slaying Vampires'Van Helsings' of gives women their worlddue. The clans, each It is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with their own agenda, have claimed a piece of The Bronx as predatory male vampire who moves in to their territory and over the years have established themselves wellquiet cul de sac.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496812</amazonuk>1683691431

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carrie Ryan1529009677|title=The Forest of Hands and TeethA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=Mary has lived her whole life in a village in the middle of the Forest of Hands and Teeth, protected from the Unconsecrated by a fence. Life in the village is simple if you follow the rules – obey the Sisterhood for they know best, preserve the next generation by marrying Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having children and stay away from the fenceproblems.  Then Mary It's mother is bitten when she strays too close to not just the fenceusual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, looking for her husband who was lost killed in a car crash some months agobefore: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. The Guardians want to Not only did he kill her before she turns 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 becomes Unconsecratedguilt. Rachel is broken, but Maryshe wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's mother chooses moved out of the family home, but stresses to live and join her husband in the Foresthis thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575090847</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil GaimanStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=CoralineOrphans of the Tide

|summary=Coraline has just moved to a new flat in a huge converted old house. It's In the summer holidayslast city on Earth, but her parents both work from home but are busy, so operate a general policy anyone can be the vessel of benign neglect. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible on The Enemy - the ground floor offer Coraline god who drowned the odd cup of tea world - and read its leaves who has come to bootwreak havoc on the last of humanity. The crazy old man upstairs When a mysterious boy is busy training pulled from the corpse of a mouse circuswhale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. There's plenty of scope for exploring in As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the groundsboy, and so Ellie must prove that's what Coraline doeshe is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, just as Alice did before she found Wonderlanddarkest secrets... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747597308</amazonuk>0241384435

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Rardin1789090873|title=One More Bite (Jaz Parks)Dread Nation|author=Justina Ireland|rating=4.5

|summary=''You are Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in the business of ghost release?a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''

Well, when that is asked Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of a vampire CIA assassin Jane McKeene who has lived through untold horrors 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 seen innumerable deaths, under the new Native and Jaz Sparks, his spunky humanNegro Re-but-getting-less-so-with-every-book colleague-turned-lovereducation 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, it only comes down there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as a major understatementan attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497096</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Ransom1471407764|title=The Birthing House Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=3.5

|summary=SpookyMartha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, sprawling house out in the sticks – checkshe wakes with a disturbing gift. RelocatedShe can read people through their clothes, youngsecrets tumble from the weave, childlessrevealing insights she doesn't really want, vulnerable couple – checkand knowledge she doesn't understand. Slow drip-drip of the odd She flees to chill the male of the couple while she her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is away in prepared to give and stumbles into a working assignment – check. Slow drip-drip world of the odd to chill the reader? Well, given patience, yes, somewhatmenace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751541710</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson1788950720|title=Body CountWhiteout (Red Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan|rating=4.5

|summary=There is a certain edge to the prologue to this latest Shaun Hutson. Is it Are you up for a futuristic slasher, sleepless night or a sci-fi slasher, an otherworldly fantasy slashertwo? You'll see the connection among my suggestions – this is a Shaun Hutson book, after allIf so, and we can expect no let-up in the gore and carnage over the few hundred pages to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494348</amazonuk>}}read on!

{{newreview|author=Simon Holt|title=The Devouring|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet ReggieCharlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a fifteen year old girl who cannot quite come to terms with her younger brother Henrybad attitude reputation and he's behaviournot a popular kid. Is it down Charlie tends to her awakening at last go off by himself - not always a safe thing to boys do if you're staying in a ski resort - and driving lessons? Is it that, due to an easily diverted father and a mother who left this is what brings him into contact with one of the household months agoski guides, she is fed up with being a free babysitter? Or is Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the real reason more akin to what is in a scratchy journal she finds due to her working in an occult bookshop? Is Henry in fact only going to dark happiest backstory and disagreeable places and moods due to possession by this forms a Vour, a devilish entity that thrives on developing then dining on fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141325267</amazonuk>connection between them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Rardin9386897385|title=Bitten to Death (Jaz Parks)Nothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5

|summary=We never know the man's name but let'Slashs call him '' – the sound of vampires lashing out at each other – a noise and activity youBoyo''. It'll have to get s what his mother used to when reading this book and the three prequelscall him, not least because he found it annoying. Vayl When we first meet Boyo his mother is a vampire working on behalf of humankindalive, despatching the nastier side of the undead as and when required.  if not ''Crunchliving'' – the past colliding with the present in this latest mission, as Vayl most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and his human counterpart Jaz encounter drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a Grecian troupe couple of vampiresyears in a mental hospital, about but mainly because her ghost continues to be taken over it would appear by the baddy of baddies, Samoshaunt Boyo. Jaz has She wants him to face up to the fact that Vayl achieve something in his life: what she has a history with this band of vamps. Which in mind is nothing compared to the present that he and could be a certain female among them are to sharefamous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497088</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurell K Hamilton 1538761858|title=Blood Noir (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)The Anomaly|author=Michael Rutger|rating=3.5

|summary=I donTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly't think all this can be blamed on Mr Bram Stoker' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Of course there Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is a sexual element to the exchange of bodily fluids starting point of his Dracula and his victims, but this has become too much book. Deep in this example a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of what can only now be loosely termed vampire horror. Anita Blake, US Marshall adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with distinction in killing unwanted undead, due to some part-supernatural skills added levels of her own, lives with at least one regular sexual partner, Nathaniel, but takes herself off with Jason, an occasional lover paranoia and full-time werewolf, to help himconspiracy thrown into the blend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149691X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Blythe and Steven Parkhouse 1683690122|title=Angel Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=John Dury and his partner Zee are businessmen you would find it hard to like. Hard-hitting, go-getting types, they spend their leisure hours taking drugs, and their company time making smash-and-grab raids on family firms, carving them up and selling the relics off piecemeal. Their boss, Mr Belial, rewards their more amoral business successes with escorts in their scanties, and yet more narcotics – the trendiest street drug of which is Angel Fire, a new chemical that can easily take you to heaven.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844429180</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Celia Friedman |title=Feast of We Sold Our Souls |rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Whilst I tend to read fantasy more than any other genre these days, my first love has always been the horror genre. So when an author promises me a fantasy novel with a dark twist, then I am always likely to be interested.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495328</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Jennifer Rardin |title=Biting the BulletGrady Hendrix|rating=45

|summary=Things aren’t getting better for Jaz ParksThe night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. Few know of her gang past as guitarist of undead90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, near-dead and just plain odd hunter-killers. The uberbaddy prevalent throughout the series seems but destined to have got obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a new dogsbodysolo career, The Wizard rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – one who she is able forced to look back to a past she has tried to bring the reavers forget – soul-eating nasties – back and to life as zombie versions a deal Hunt made that are even harder to killmay have sabotaged more than just the band. A trip to hell (or In a dream resembling journey that) has brought suggestions will take Kris from Mum that things aren’t going a dusty hotel to be getting bettera hellish music festival, or easiershe's determined to face the man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, and tells of jobs unfinished. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496405</amazonuk>will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…?

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie HustonETDWB|title=Half the Blood Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Brooklyn (Joe Pitt Novel)Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=4.5

|rating=3.5|summary=The scratchy maps at In the start third and final part of the book show how ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the world events of Brooklyn and Manhattan has been separated into gang territories – gangs of Vampyresbook two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the undead forced that way through some form of viral contagion. The Society, that Joe Pitt works for as a gopher, hard man rage burning inside him and possibly just mule, able to be played like saves Sasha – a puppet on a string, that have their world centred on Greenwich, are rebuffing an approach young escapee from the Docks, over the Brooklyn Bridgesecret testing facility. This is easily done, with As events come to a few quick axe slashesclimax, but noand Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-one, not Pittmilitary sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, not the moll stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of the gang, Lydia, and not even the head honcho, Terry, can predict just how volatile the whole this alive? And what kind of New York is becoming.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496804</amazonuk>world will he have left?

{{newreview |title=Unmarked Graves|author=Shaun Hutson|genre=Horror|rating=4|summary=This horror book certainly raises questions. How can the author so successfully manage to tie in the initial threads into what boils down to a zombie novel?  A tall, charismatic African political leader (or terrorist, depending on whose side you're Move 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]]