Category Archives: fiction

Review: Cold, Black & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific & Strange by Todd Keisling

Posted on August 25, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Cemetery Dance Publishing, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Down here in the dark lies a vast and twisted landscape where the wicked, wistful, and profane coalesce. This is where the lonely and lost face their demons, where anxious paranoias … Continue reading →

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Review: Their Four Hearts by Vladimir Sorokin

Posted on August 23, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Dalkey Archive, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn’t write fiction for ten years after … Continue reading →

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Review: The Child and The River by Henri Bosco

Posted on August 9, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn –esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family’s wishes. … Continue reading →

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Review: The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter and Andrew F Sullivan

Posted on August 6, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror . When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new … Continue reading →

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Review: Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

Posted on July 18, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a … Continue reading →

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Review: Zero-Sum: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

Posted on July 16, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous … Continue reading →

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Review: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

Posted on July 1, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes … Continue reading →

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Review: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway

Posted on June 12, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society’s most powerful, medically-enhanced elites “Cross-genre brilliance from … Continue reading →

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Review: The Night Mother and NightWhere by John Everson

Posted on June 9, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis for NightWhere: She yearned to go beyond… but some curtains should never be opened.When Rae broached the idea of visiting an underground sex club, Mark didn’t blink. He should have. Because NightWhere is not … Continue reading →

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Review: Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

Posted on May 20, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club. “Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority … Continue reading →

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