Horror/Dark Fantasy
a book that lends itself to horror or fantasy or a dark nature
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KILL CREATURES – Rory Power
Nan’s three best friends, all of the students at the local school, have gone missing at one of the popular watering holes. It’s been a year and something’s been nagging at Nan, a little voice in her head telling her that someone knows something. And then one of the missing girls walks out of Saltcedar Continue reading
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THE PLACE WHERE THEY BURIED YOUR HEART – Christina Henry
I am always happy to see a new Christina Henry book! There’s a street in Chicago that seems otherwise pretty ordinary, except for the fact that there’s an old, abandoned, run-down house. Parents tell their children to stay away, but children find the fun in daring one another to go into the house. But people Continue reading
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A PLAY ABOUT A CURSE – Caroline Macon Fleischer
Corey is a young woman with dreams of a life in the theatre. Maxine is the respected, award-winning dramatist currently leading a workshop where she encourages Corey. But when Maxine destroys Corey’s hopes at a collaboration, the young mentee seeks revenge. That revenge comes by way of a curse, drawn on dark powers, that will Continue reading
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CHAPELWOOD – Cherie Priest
Lizbeth (Lizzie) Borden is working with Boston investigator Simon Wolf to combat certain dark entities. When a friend of Simon’s is killed in Birmingham, Alabama the pair head south. There appears to be more at work than just an angry murderer. With no obvious motive, something more sinister may be behind the killing spree. There Continue reading
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THE SHIVERS COLLECTION
This is five short story/novelettes by five leading authors writing in the horror/dark fantasy genre. It seems like every decade or so, publishers try to find a way to capitalize on short fiction. I can recall working in a bookstore (the 90’s?) when some of the big publishers tried marketing short stories and novellas in Continue reading
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THE DEVILS – Joe Abercrombie
In Joe Abercrombie’s The Devils, we have a strange twisting of our familiar reality. In this dark fantasy, Abercrombie gives us a Catholic Church which only has female priests and a female pope (who is barely more than a child). Her friends and protectors include vampires and werewolves. In this world, the Crusades are being waged Continue reading
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MINKY WOODCOCK: THE GIRL CALLED CTHULHU – graphic novel
I knew/(know) nothing about this character Minky Woodcock. and I’ve never read anything by Cynthia von Buhler, but I was in the mood for something in the noir vein and a Hard Case Crime book is usually good to meet that need! Following the death of Harry Houdini (with whom Minky had a close relationship), Continue reading
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THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER – Stephen Graham Jones
What happens when a vampire confronts a minister in the American West of 1912? Confession. Discovered in a wall is a journal of a Lutheran pastor who detailed his encounters with a man who’d once been known as Good Stab, of the Blackfeet Nation. In great detail, the pastor recounts Good Stab’s story in his Continue reading
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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT – anthology
It’s been a minute since I read Stephen King’s The Stand and I know I’ve probably forgotten more than I remember from the book, but I haven’t forgotten the feelings I had during the reading and when I’d finished it. Awe, fear, exhaustion, and the realization I’d read something ‘very special’ (I would have read the book Continue reading
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OVERGROWTH – Mira Grant
At three years old, Anastasia Miller began to tell anyone who would listen that she was an alien that had taken over Anastasia’s body and that her ‘people’ were going to return to take her to her true home. That was more than three decades ago and for more than three decades no one listened. Continue reading
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THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS – Chuck Wendig
Five high school kids – generally outcasts among their peers – are bonded by their oath to protect one another no matter what. This has served them well and helped each of them survive high school. When they chose to go on a camping trip they couldn’t have anticipated the strange sight before them. A Continue reading
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WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS – Grady Hendrix
Wow. This was incredible! I would count Grady Hendrix as one of my favorite authors, based, now, on the last six fiction novels of his I’ve read. His books are dark and quirky, a fantastic blend of horror and coming of age. I thought that this book was the least dark and horrific (in the Continue reading
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