Category Archives: fiction

Review: Crash by J.G. Ballard

Posted on March 21, 2025 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In Ballard’s hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a “TV scientist” turned “nightmare angel of the highways,” experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than … Continue reading →

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Review: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Posted on March 7, 2025 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: Hungerstone is a thrillingly seductive sapphic romance for fans of S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood and Emilia Hart’s Weyward. For what do you hunger, Lenore?Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their … Continue reading →

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Review: The Witcher The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

Posted on January 24, 2025 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: … Continue reading →

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Review: Death in the Downline by Maria Abrams

Posted on January 14, 2025 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: It’s multi-level murder in this darkly funny mystery novel about the glamorous world of MLM “huns”—and the dangerous secrets at the top of the pyramid. Drew thought she was destined to rise above her … Continue reading →

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Review: Zola by D.E. McCluskey

Posted on January 3, 2025 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Gordon’s name was a joke. It was given to him by Anthony Zola, a controlling, and abusive father, to taunt his wife over her love of cheese, and the fact that she had been … Continue reading →

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Review Dogs & Wolves by Herve Le Corre

Posted on December 31, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: When Franck gets out after five years in jail, he expects to find the brother he protected with his silence. Instead, waiting for him is his brother Fabien’s girlfriend. Jessica takes him to the gloomy country … Continue reading →

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Review: Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk

Posted on October 14, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face … Continue reading →

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Review: The Bloodstained Doll by John Everson

Posted on October 8, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The latest homage to the Italian Giallo film genre by award winning John Everson, with nods to the sensational movies of Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Luciano Ercoli, Mario Bava and more. When … Continue reading →

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Review: Authority (Southern Reach #2) by Jeff VanderMeer

Posted on September 16, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all … Continue reading →

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Review: Letters to the Purple Satin Killer by Joshua Chaplinsky

Posted on August 6, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Clash books website, Bookshop Synopsis: Jonas Williker is considered one of the most sadistic serial murderers of the modern era. This epistolary novel explores the aftermath of his arrest and the psychological trauma of those who lived … Continue reading →

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