Dark Fantasy/Horror
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NORTHWOODS – Bill Schweigart
Davis Holland, once a Delta Force member, is a Customs and Border Protection Agent. He and a local sheriff are called to investigate reports of an illegal border crossing, but as the pair search in the northern Minnesota woods they come across a gruesome scene of a mass murder. There is one possible clue to Continue reading
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HORSEMAN – Christina Henry
The Headless Horseman story is just that … a story, right? Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows the story, but no one actually believes it. Even Brom Bones who claims to have been there when the Horseman chased the skinny Crane fellow out of town, no longer really believes in the old story. Now, some Continue reading
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THE SEARCHING DEAD – Ramsey Campbell
Liverpool just after World War II and three students (the Tremendous Three), best friends Dominic Sheldrake, Jimmy, and Bobby (Roberta), are discovering that there is something dark and maybe sinister about Mr. Noble. Noble had been their teacher who, after bringing in his father to talk about his experiences in the war, suggested a trip to Continue reading
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DOUBLE DEAD – Chuck Wendig
Coburn just woke up. Coburn has been asleep for the past five years (not strictly by choice, and he is now awake and hungry, and for someone like Coburn … a vampire … being hungry is not good for the rest of the world. Unfortunately, however, Coburn woke up to a world in which everyone Continue reading
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THE ESSENCE OF DARKNESS – Tom Clearlake
I no longer request an ARC of a book unless something about the book (sometimes the author, sometimes the description, sometimes even the publisher) attracts me to the title. So it should go without saying that I genuinely want to like and enjoy each book that I read. Sadly, that is not always the case. Continue reading
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NEAR THE BONE – Christina Henry
This is an INTENSE book. The faint-at-heart may want to stay away. Mattie lives with William, alone in a remote location in a small wooden shack on a mountain. Mattie must always obey the will of her husband. She must keep quiet, keep out of sight, and fulfill all wifely duties. If she questions William, Continue reading
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FANTASTIC TALES – Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
I know nothing about Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, but the description of these short stories sounded like something right up my alley. “Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life.” Yes, this sounds fascinating to me. And best of all … I really enjoyed these stories. Writing roughly around Continue reading
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MYTHBREAKER – Stephen Blackmoore
I’ll be honest … what got me interested in picking up this book is the note that this book is “the follow-up to Chuck Wendig’s Unclean Sprits.” Now, I haven’t read Wendig’s Unclean Spirits, but I am a fan of Wendig’s writing, so this very much caught my interest. Being a god isn’t what it used to Continue reading
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THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES – Grady Hendrix
One of the things that makes reading Grady Hendrix absolutely delicious is that Hendrix gives us a really normal story with really normal people but then things start to slide sideways. It’s a slow process – so slow you probably can’t pinpoint exactly when the slide began (and probably, the slide began before the first Continue reading
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THE FEAR INSTITUTE – Jonathan L. Howard
This is book #3 (which of course means it’s the fifth book in the series, because there’s a #.5 and a #.75 before #1) and I’ve never read any of the other books. Certainly I’ve missed out on some character history and character-building, having not read the other books, but generally I didn’t feel I Continue reading
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THE DAMNATION GAME – Clive Barker
I’ll repeat this every time I read a horror novel … novel-length horror is difficult sustain. There are very few names that stand out in this field because so few can doo this well. Clive Barker is among those few. Poland at the end of World War II. Our protagonist, unnamed, a thief, is looking Continue reading
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THE ORPHAN OF CEMETERY HILL – Hester Fox
Boston in the 1800’s. Sisters Tabby and Alice are on the run as they’ve just escaped their cruel, abusive aunt and uncle. They choose to split up so that they can reduce the likelihood of being found and Alice leaves Tabby to hide out in a cemetery for awhile. There, Tabby meets Eli, an old Continue reading
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