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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=The Undesired|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=If you're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell you, even in this day and age, that the place is heavily populated with trolls. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with that, but she certainly peoples her world with ghosts. Here is Odinn, and to some extent his ghost – certainly there's the ghost of 'what if' around him, and the man he might have been if he hadn't abandoned the young mother of his child. Here is that very wife, who is now dead herself. Here is the spirit of failure as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, to investigate a children's care home in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went on. And that place certainly should be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David MitchellMariana Enriquez|title=Slade HouseA Sunny Place for Shady People

|genre=HorrorShort Stories|summary=Once every nine years Jonah 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 Norah Greyer entertain a guest; each time a different person… or personscrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. Each visitor walks through the small black door of Slade House for various reasons The circumstances of their own. Or at least they think they know why they're there but only Jonah and Norah know her characters are so plausible that the real reason – the only reasonsupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473616689</amazonuk>1803511230

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0008385068|title=The UndesiredMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=If youIt're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell you, even in this day s midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and age, that the place is heavily populated with trollssplendid celebrations are promised. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with that, but she certainly peoples her world with ghostsIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Here is Odinn, The Manor was her ancestral home and to some extent his ghost – certainly thereshe's converted it into an impressive retreat for the ghost of 'what if' around him, wealthy and the man he might have been if he hadn't abandoned the young mother of his childfamous. Here is that very wifeHer husband, Owen, who was the architect and work is now dead herselfstill ongoing on parts of the site. Here The heat is oppressive and amongst the spirit of failure guests are enemies as well as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, friends. Old scores are going to investigate a childrenbe settled and it won's care home in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went on. And that place certainly should t be haunted – already long before a dead child has been disposed of, and more body is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>found.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyRichard Kadrey|title=Demon RoadThe Pale House Devil

|genre=TeensHorror|summary= Amber Lamont was Ford and Neuland are a relatively ordinary 16-year-oldcouple of, living a pretty quietwell, uneventful life; she went to schoolguys for hire I guess, had though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a part-time jobcouple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parents. But over the course other is undead, and so one of just one day everything goes completely to hellthem kills the living, and the other kills the undead. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demon (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a genuinejob in New York that goes badly, red-skinned, satanic monster, with horns and talons that can rip so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a human while and find some other work to shredskeep them going. Her demon side is But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the least of her problems, however. For Amber'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's parents are also demonshouse they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and now a terrifyingly powerful creature that her powers have manifested, they are intent on eating her and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on the run, travelling the Demon Road 've never come across America in a desperate attempt to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets of his own. before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008140812</amazonuk>1803363894

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillRachel Harrison|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)Bad Dolls|rating=54|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary= Zero Hour has passedIt's been some time since I've read any horror. Despite throwing absolutely everything they I had into a full on assault on Dracula's forces, the combined might couple of the supernatural departments failed to destroy the ancient vampire, and he has returned to full strengthmisspent teen years reading Stephen King, ready to strike at humanity with unadulterated violence. Secrecy is no longer an option as borrowing the entire world reels books from the revelation that vampires are real. Department 19 has been through so much, shaken to its core by secrets, betrayals a boy I fancied at school and losses. With the public eye now firmly upon scaring myself half silly with them, to the very fundamentals point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the Department come under firevampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, as issues of morality that and I didn't have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst to the fore. Jamie, Larissaread it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, Kate and Matt have always I found themselves at the centre most of that feeling came from the chaosfact that these are stories about women, and despite each struggling with their own demonsliving normal lives, their friendship and companionship has helped them survive and even thrive within the department. Humanity's last stand will need them that at their very bestleast in part, will need every force that the supernatural departments of the world can musterhorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, whether it be humantrying a new dieting app, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when the entire future of humanity is at stakegoing to a hen party and a coping with grief. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>1803363932

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon BisleyChuck Tingle|title=13 CoinsCamp Damascus

|genre=Graphic NovelsHorror|summary=''For the Love is love of money ; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is the root of all kinds of evilongoing.'' There, I've done The UK government ruled out plans to make it – quoted the Bible in a review. It's certainly pertinent crime and, in the world of this graphic novelUS, where the fallen angels nearly 700 000 adults have one get-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian eventsreceived it. They turned Although it is both a secular and a little section of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinsreligious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, which can influence the human holders into sheer evilin his new horror, but might just cause an open war on Heaven''Camp Damascus'', whether they or peels back the best skin of Christian ''pray the holy on earth use them all. The best of gay away'' camps to show the holy then, offspring of reader the good angels, are culled as a routine, but not one – John Pozner, who of course has no idea of his place in the celestial circle of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>horror lurking within.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Brockway1529382823|title= The UnnoticeablesLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 34.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers|summary= Carey Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a punk living in cruise to New York City, 1977on ''Atlantica''. Sick of watching his friends be abducted and killed Caz's sister, he doesn’t care about the rumours of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do is drink beer and kick ass. In the present dayGemma, Kaitlyn reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in Hollywoodhis suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. A stuntwoman, she has They've not been a missing best friend, has just escaped couple for that long and the trip will be an attempt on her lifeexcellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, and an angel Gemma is waiting outside her doorlooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. The survival of the human race lies in the hands of Carey and Kaitlyn. We are, all of us It's going to be good, well and truly screwed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Ian Edginton and Alex SanchezEric LaRocca|title=The Evil WithinTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic NovelsHorror|summary=What do you fear most? And when youHorror 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''ve answered , whether thatis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, think on why – is it usually something that happened to youtangible and, something you saw or readby the end of the story, or something you yourself did? beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The nature Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of horror is looked at short stories more interested in this graphic novel, which spins the usual web horrors of nightmares around some fit young adultsillness, grief and tests them with graphic death on the cards at the same time as keeping them in the dark about what has brought the doom humiliation. Horrors that linger and gloom are harder to themdefeat than any ''Big Bad''. Starting with Dana, a college girl seeking her kidnapped best friend, things get darker, weirder, and forever more violent…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth KnoxB0BHR8KWSK|title=WakeDukkha|author=Martin Hyde|rating=34

|summary= Theresa – a policewoman investigating a helicopter crash, finds herself Sam wakes up chained in Kahukura, a New Zealand settlement that on first appearances is relatively calm and beautifulbasement. However, as soon as she arrives, a wave of violence He rails against his captor and madness hits the town – with the locals intent on destroying both themselves and each other. As the wave injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of madness passescourse, it becomes clear that there he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to a retreat and emerging as a field surrounding the town – trapping the survivors insideneophyte Buddhist monk. They must work together Recently returning to grievejoin the community in his old neighbourhood, come he knew his past would be hard to terms with what they have done, and to find escape but he hadn't imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such a way out of the situationviolent fashion. As the madness threatens to return, the fear that the violence may return becomes an increasing reality…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersChristopher Golden|title=The Grindle WitchRoad of Bones|rating=43.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'Deep in … the woods something evil is stirringR504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's 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 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 life every metre it covers. You can say easily find documentaries about it online, but that again. Jack Jolly's father a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a pathologist and neither he nor the armed police film-maker, doing a recce with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moorehis cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's body. Whoever or whatever killed mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the old man has carried out funds he'd invested in the most savage attack anyone has ever seenpair's prior TV projects. And Jack They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, who has just moved to gain the remote village company of Grindle from the citya local beauty, had thought it a boring and dull place with unfriendly people, fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where nothing ever happens. How wrong could he have been?things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=B ReidAlly Wilkes|title=Beyond All the Trees of Gulavstadt: A Gothic Short StoryWhite Spaces

|genre=Politics and SocietyHorror|summary=Amy works 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 Claralingua, a London education company that runs English schools all over the worldfresh start, and Amy is travelling the opportunity to Gulavstadtlive life as his authentic self and true gender, a remote town in Eastern Europewithout the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, to inspect Jonathan isn't the only one of fleeing the schools. Gulavstadt is a town confines of myths his past and the setting shadow of the war hangs like a recent horror filmfuneral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, ''The Thing Behind mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Trees''Arctic winter alive, exploiting them - featuring medievalhe will have to face his demons once and for all, flesh-eating ghouls with mouths lined with or risk making the sharpest of teeth. But myths don't bother Amy..barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00U9I7KNI</amazonuk>1789097835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughAmanda Mason|title=The Death HouseHiding Place|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Toby would appear to be lucky, having the run of an isolated country mansion on a small island off the coast of Britain. But no. His domain only exists at night, and only then because he sleeps in the day and refuses to take the 'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an evening. He is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, and being the cause of the night-time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things go, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered a loss of life. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numbers, and one of them, Clara, is the agent of that change. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon Kurt Unsworth |title=The Devil's Detective |rating=23.5

|summary=There are some obvious things in Needing an escape from their turbulent life (, Nell Galilee takes her husband and death)stepdaughter to Whitby, but one where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of the most clear is Elder House. She hopes that Hell it will be Hellishthe perfect place to sort things out. This But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is a place unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that sinners go to be punishedshe and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4. However5|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, for every Dante’s InfernoMr Patrick, there is to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a depiction of hell that is not so badmonthly allowance. Who really wants to read something depressing about Patrick sent the desolation money regularly and a correspondence - of souls, apart from those pesky 14th Century types? According 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'The Devil’s Detectivet care for his son, it was that he didn'', people t care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the 21st Century do tooyoung man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195651X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1787301435|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)Dark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenTwenty-two-year-old 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 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 read a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although the [[Zom-B realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.}}{{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by Darren Shan|first book]] and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the 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 an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves in to their quiet cul de sac.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>1683691431

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529009677|title=Frozen CharlotteA Window Breaks|author=Alex BellC M Ewan|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=When Sophie Tom Sullivan and Jay play around with his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just the usual growing apart after more than a ouija board app that Jay has downloaded 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 drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his phonegirlfriend, things go awfully wrongfifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Sophie asks to speak to Rebecca, Tom can't think about Michael without a cousin sense of hers who died in mysterious circumstancesshame and guilt. But what Rebecca has Rachel is broken, but she wants to say is not goodforgive Michael. And that very night To give some space, Jay drowns in Tom's moved out of the canal after falling from family home, but stresses to his bikethirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation. A tragic accident. Or was it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jekyll's MirrorStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|authortitle=William HusseyOrphans of the Tide|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sam In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is doing his best but he feels pulled from the corpse of a whale, the Wrath inside citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As the time. If your father had beaten your mother ruthless Inquisition prepares to deathexecute the boy, wouldn't you? He tries to concentrate on schoolwork and his art and keep Ellie must prove that anger locked away deep down inside, but he is innocent - even if it's not easy. His aunt Cora does means revealing her best to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustfuldeepest, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasn't fallen far from (his father's) treedarkest secrets...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>0241384435

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jesse Bullington (editor)1789090873|title=Letters to Lovecraft : Eighteen Whispers to the DarknessDread Nation|author=Justina Ireland|rating=45

|summary=Howard Phillips Lovecraft ''Two days after I was, born … the dead rose up and started to me, walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg '' Dread Nation narrates the author unconventional life of ruinously mediocre post-Victorian penny dreadful horror fictionJane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which is interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changing world, concerning far too numerous manyminorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-tentacled, secretly-worshipped, extra-dimensional monster threats education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to mankind destroy the dead once and for his – and our – own goodall. It's little wonder that he lived For Jane and died in poverty, and only became of note posthumously. That note seems to be buildingother girls like her, there is however, hence this collection of stories the opportunity for a better life by many award-winning modern writers of the dark being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and macabre, all looking back yet going much furtherperfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and pretty much are valued above all providing us with a showcase for their own, contemporary talentelse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908983108</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne Truss1471407764|title=Cat out of HellThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=35

|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. HeMartha's retired and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories of his colleague wife, now that she world has died before her timechanged. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging Blind in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked at, just before he left. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence of one eye after falling from a talking cat called Rogertree, replete she wakes with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cata disturbing gift. WorryinglyShe can read people through their clothes, we soon see what at secrets tumble from the most only a few of the characters canweave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alecknowledge she doesn's wifet understand. ItShe flees to her grandmother, Mormor's only when Roger testifies cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to having been pushed through the ends give and stumbles into a world of endurance and out the other side that we begin to doubt where the true evil in this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>menace.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1788950720|title=Robin Ince and Johnny Mains Whiteout (editorsRed Eye)|titleauthor=Dead FunnyGabriel Dylan

|summary=In a world of nightmares, disasters, death and ignominy there is a book called ''Dead Funny''. Invented purely to satisfy the remit built into its title, it collects some horror stories written by comedians, both household names and those more Are you up-and-coming. Like all horror books it comes out at the time of year best suited for horror – Halloweena sleepless night or two? If so, when we read with the darkest corners in our rooms, with the longest evenings outside – but is only suited for Halloween because it on! Charlie is on a worthlessschool trip, hellish piece of dross. It never excites, it is skiing in the most self-serving vanity project, and the only funny thing about it is that some idiot ever decided it was worth publishingAustrian mountains. Now I know you know, courtesy of those bright shiny stars alongside this review, that this volume, Dead Funny, is not He''that'' Dead Funny. But just bear in mind the horror story this could have been, if these pages were s not so surprisingly adept at taking those said nightmares, disasters, deaths and ignominy and presenting them to us so competentlyhaving much fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773762</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short Stories|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and Richard Thomas|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound righthe's not a popular kid. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best Charlie tends to go off leaving them inside your head, or better yet by himself - not thinking of them at all. When these words are spoken they could lead always a safe thing to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what do if you said was wrong. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust 're staying in a ski resort - and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Printer's Devil Court|author=Susan Hill|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Susan Hill this is by far the master what brings him into contact with one of the old fashioned ghost storyski guides, Hanna. If youHanna herself doesn've ever read or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], then you’ll already know that, but her other ghost stories are a little less famous. That doesn’t make them any less good, and I for one am a big fan. I think there’s a lot to be said for a good old fashioned scare, with apparitions, goosebumps and cold chills up t have the spine. I always feel like I should be reading these books around a campfire, wrapped in a blanket happiest backstory and eating marshmallows because it very much reminds me of sharing ghost stories with my friends when I was this forms a child. What I like to call a ‘proper scare’connection between them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125365X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=9386897385|title=The QuickNothing Lasting|author=Lauren OwenLaura Solomon

|summary=When reading ‘The Remaining’ by I had a warm feeling insideWe never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, not due to the psychological terror in the book, but least because he found it seems that I am annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not the only person who is prepared for the inevitable zombie apocalypse''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. No more an illustrious group than the US Army itself Housework is prepareda foreign country. In each When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of the mainland States of America years in a trained soldier is moved underground whenever a potential disaster is on the horizonmental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. Captain Lee Harden has found himself She wants him to achieve something in his bunker several times, but life: what she has always climbed out again in mind is that he could be a few days later, until nowfamous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356503453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1538761858|title=SentinelThe Anomaly|author=Joshua WinningMichael Rutger|rating=3.5

|summary=In many ways this book is not as typical Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of fantasy and mild horror internet adventurers as the summary might suggestthey head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Unlike a lot Imagine if, instead of stories where we join the main character in being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the aftermath starting point of a major event, this one begins before Nicholas is orphanedbook. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for Deep in a train journey, coming so soon after cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a menacing Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and mysterious prologue, makes it pretty clear to us that they won't be returning, and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himselfconspiracy thrown into the blend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Quickening|author=Julie Myerson|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summaryisbn=Rachel and Dan are on holiday in the Caribbean, but soon after they arrive on the island of Antigua odd and disturbing things start to happen. Items seemingly move by themselves. Things break. People appear out of nowhere. And then, the attacks start. Rachel is petrified. Newly pregnant she is worrying for her baby’s safety as well as her own, and she has a nagging feeling in her stomach that the one person she should be able to trust is the one she simply cannot. Dan is acting strangely and though she begs him to let them go home early, he plays down her fears. Why won’t he believe what she’s saying, and take her seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580241</amazonuk>}}{{newreview |author=Adam Hamdy|title=Phase|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life to finding his daughter and the people who abducted her. It's cost him everything - his marriage, his relationship with his son, his job and - in all probability - his sanity. He's reached the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is not an option and many of his actions are irrational. If any part of this can be described as having an upside it's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amber's abduction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1683690122|title=A Love Like BloodWe Sold Our Souls|author=Marcus SedgwickGrady Hendrix|rating=4.5

|summary=One day towards the end The night manager of World War Twoa Best Western, Charles Jackson Kris Pulaski is dragged washed up and unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a museum shocking act of antiquities just outside violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtime. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific past she has tried to forget – and to a man in a wartime bunker in deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the grounds, squatting over band. In a female figure, blood on his lips journey that could only have come will take Kris from her neckline. Years latera dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons she's determined to do with his medical career, and finds face the same man in the company of someone who, were he only aware of the fact, is to become the first and possibly only love of his ruined her life. But that's not the only time the paths of Jackson with dark forces rising and the mysterious male are destined threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to cross – defeat the prologue was set in odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>Earth…?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=ETDWB|title=SnowblindEven The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Christopher GoldenSteven Ramirez

|summary=People in Coventry Massachusetts get nervous when a big storm comes in. Many have never come to terms with In the legacy third and final part of killer storm a dozen years before. The townspeople have a sense of foreboding, as if they realise the storm was something more than a natural disaster. But for Jake Schapiro the storm was never an act of God. If anything it was closer to an act of something pure evil. Jake saw the creatures that rode the storm, and saw them claim his brother. He has spent twelve years wishing for another chance''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, and he Dave Pulaski is about headed to get itLos Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. This storm is just as cold, just as brutal and just as deadly as With the lastevents of book two still weighing heavily on Dave, but this one is bringing something else. Along with he struggles against the bitter winds, snow rage burning inside him and ice, this storm will bring back saves Sasha – a young escapee from the deadsecret testing facility. When you lose someone you love, the longing, or wishing for just one more day, one more hour or even As events come to a few minutes can be overwhelming - but there is an old saying: 'be careful what you wish forclimax, you just might get it'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472209583</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Hunger (Hammer 1)|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt and consumed Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a ravening hunger. She puts it down to illness and sleepwalking at first but when the hunger doesn't go and reports group of a grave desecration surfacescientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, Beth has to admit that something sinister is afoot. Beth doesn't know the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it yet, but she is a special person. She carries a conduit from the land out of the living to the land this alive? And what kind of the dead and a newly-awakened demon wants her very much. But can Beth, together with brother Louis and friends Ivan and Coll, defeat himworld will he have left? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099576643</amazonuk>