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Review: A Sliver of Darkness by C.J. Tudor

Pre-order Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The debut short story collection from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man, featuring ten bone-chilling and mind-bending tales Timeslips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies. C. J. Tudor’s novels are widely acclaimed for their dark, twisty suspense … Continue reading

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Review: We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma’s Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of … Continue reading

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Review: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Where to Buy: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be … Continue reading

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Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Preorder it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: “Mysterious, fascinating, and deeply moving—exploring the very nature of what it means to be human.”—ALEX MICHAELIDES, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens “You don’t so much sympathize with the main character as … Continue reading

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Review: Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel

Buy it Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A girl would be such a blessing… The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard … Continue reading

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Review: Black Tide by KC Jones

To be released May 31, 2022 Buy here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: KC Jones’ Black Tide, a character-driven science fiction/horror novel that explores what happens after a cataclysmic event leaves the world crawling with nightmares, will be published by Nightfire in … Continue reading

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Review: Made for Love by Alissa Nutting

Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane–his sex doll companion. Life with Hazel’s father is strained at best, but it’s got to be better than her … Continue reading

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Review: Horrorama edited by C.V. Hunt

Buy it here: Grindhouse Press, Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: Ready for the book version of a horror movie marathon? Horrorama brings you three novelettes reminiscent of those popcorn fueled all-nighters. Stor-All Self-Storage by A.S. Coomer Richard Dennison has just landed a … Continue reading

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Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi’s first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food … Continue reading

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Review: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Buy Here: Current edition unavailable. Preorder new edition here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s—a darkness that … Continue reading

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