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Review: Their Four Hearts by Vladimir Sorokin

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: Mister Magic by Kiersten White

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and discover the secret of its enigmatic host—in this dark supernatural thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide. … Continue reading

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Review: The Child and The River by Henri Bosco

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

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: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film–and awakens … Continue reading

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Review: Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

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

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

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

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

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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