Category Archives: fiction

Review: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón

Posted on January 5, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón’s specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjón’s most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a … Continue reading →

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Review: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

Posted on December 1, 2023 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around … Continue reading →

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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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