Synopsis: When the end came, it wasn’t zombies, asteroids, global warming or nuclear winter. It was something that escaped from a lab. Something small, and very hungry. It starts with deadly rain that delivers death where it falls, but soon the whole planet is under threat as the infection spreads, consuming everything before it. A … Continue reading Review: Fungoid by William Meikle
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Review: The Good Sisters by Helen Phifer
Synopsis: The chilling new horror from bestselling author, Helen Phifer, is the perfect Halloween read. 1931, Mother Superior Agnes offers sanctuary to a desperate young woman fleeing for her life. Only to wake in the morning to discover a terrible fate has befallen one of the Sisters – in a room locked from the … Continue reading Review: The Good Sisters by Helen Phifer
Review: Funeral Games by Colin Heintze
Synopsis: Ingerval is the Country of the Dead. Despised by the wider world, blighted by history, since the beginning of time it has honored one law: the Dead rule, and the Living submit. No one remembers why Ingerval nobles return as ghosts after their deaths. To enjoy a brief life of pleasure and plenty, followed … Continue reading Review: Funeral Games by Colin Heintze
Review: The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood
Synopsis: The bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club hit The Cold Season returns with a chilling mystery - where superstition and myth bleed into real life with tragic consequences Pretty Lizzie Higgs is gone, burned to death on her own hearth - but was she really a changeling, as her husband insists? Albie … Continue reading Review: The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood
Author Interview: Casey Bartsch
Welcome to my interview with Casey Bartsch, author of Strawberries which I recently read and loved! His answers are brutally honest and I can't thank him enough for humouring me when I randomly messaged him and asked if he'd mind terribly if I poked around in his head. It's Halloween, so where better to be … Continue reading Author Interview: Casey Bartsch
Review: Magical Ties by J.M. Levinton
Synopsis: Experimenting with a demon-summoning spell was a way for 25-year-old Emily to forget that her boyfriend dumped her. To her shock, it worked. Now, with a demon on her hands, Emily and her sister, Christa, fall under the scrutiny of Thomas Ramikin, the head of the magical community’s police. Like it or not, … Continue reading Review: Magical Ties by J.M. Levinton
Review: Sorry and Morticum by Charles Stoll
Synopsis: Welcome to Daytona, 3022. Much has changed. After mankind had made peace between the nations, there still followed the Robotic Wars, the Insect Wars and the Climate Wars. Many of the world's formally hidden creatures have risen to the surface. The rivers and oceans have dried up and a conscious fog covers the … Continue reading Review: Sorry and Morticum by Charles Stoll
Review: Strawberries by Casey Bartsch
Synopsis: Strawberries is the name he has been given. When they let him out, they had no way of knowing what he was. A psychopath. A killer. The body count is at twenty already, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Agent Harry Bland can’t see one anyway. He doesn’t have a … Continue reading Review: Strawberries by Casey Bartsch
Review: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Synopsis: Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking. To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn … Continue reading Review: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Review: The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
Synopsis: Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva’s fast-paced novel of suspense. She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that … Continue reading Review: The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
Review: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
Synopsis: If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was impossible to truly know the … Continue reading Review: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
Review: The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Synopsis: Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight. In The … Continue reading Review: The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
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