Dark Fantasy/Horror
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FANGS FOR THE MEMORIES – Molly Harper
I requested this book because it looked like it might be a quick, entertaining read. I was right. This book is a prequel to a series that is apparently moderately popular (The Half-Moon Hollow series), though I have to admit that I’ve never read any other books in the series. I haven’t even read anything… Continue reading
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VAMPIRES OF MANHATTAN – Melissa de la Cruz
Because in the past I have requested ARC’s of books that are in the middle or the end of a series, I’ve taken care to try not to jump in the middle of a series, but I’m very willing to test the waters of a new series, so when I saw that this was Book… Continue reading
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SHAKESPEARE V LOVECRAFT – D.R. O’Brien
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL A year or so there was a quickly moving fad in fiction to combine existing works of literature with some form of horror stories, whether zombies or vampires or you-name-the-horror. Of this variety, I’ve read through a couple of them and was entertained enough that it wasn’t a complete waste of time. This… Continue reading
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ALICE – Christina Henry
Christina Henry’s Alice is a darkly original look at Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland stories. In a dark, run-down (some might call it a ‘hole’) town called Old City, a ragged woman named Alice is imprisoned in a hospital (“Her body had grown older but her mind was still trapped at sixteen, still unsure of… Continue reading
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MERCY THOMPSON: HOPCROSS JILLY – graphic novel
I loved this book. I am not at all familiar with author Patricia Briggs or with her character Mercy Thompson, other than through this graphic novel, but I really did enjoy this book. Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter and an honorary member of a local werewolf pack in this modern world where people with such… Continue reading
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ANDERSONVILLE – Edward M. Erdelac
This is how you write a horror novel. I’ve read a fair number of horror/dark fantasy novels recently, and it seems that I keep repeating the thought that writing and sustaining horror for the length of a novel is extremely difficult, and most of the books I’ve read haven’t quite succeeded in this task. Author… Continue reading
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14 – Peter Clines
I knew nothing about this book, or the author, before digging in to it. And reading it on my Kindle, I didn’t even have the cover copy to give me a hint. What I found inside was as much a surprise as what Nate tucker and friends discover behind the door to room 14! Nate… Continue reading
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DOLL FACE – Tim Curran
If you enjoy dark fantasy/horror in your literature or film entertainment, then you probably already know that a wonderful source of horror is when inanimate objects take on ‘life’ and personalities. And one of the best sources is dolls (as is evident by the Chucky films). So author Tim Curran hits on a sure-fire theme… Continue reading
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THE PASSAGE – Justin Cronin
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A BOOK FROM MY SHELF Justin Cronin’s The Passage (the first book in “The Passage” series) is a novel on an epic scale and not a book to go lightly in to. A government experiment goes horribly wrong and brings about a catastrophe on a massive scale. Somehow, a six-year-old girl named… Continue reading

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