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Review Dogs & Wolves by Herve Le Corre

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: Coup de Grace by Sofia Ajram

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke. Vicken has a plan: throw himself into … Continue reading

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Review: In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft by Joe R. Lansdale

Buy it here: Tachyon Press, Amazon Synopsis: Ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep) returns with this wicked short story collection of his irreverent Lovecraftian tributes. Lansdale is scarily down-home in these tales, merging his classic gonzo stylings … Continue reading

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Review: Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk

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

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: Moving the Moon: A Night at the Acropolis Museum by Andrea Marcolongo

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From one of Europe’s most original and brilliant classicists, an inspiring and deeply personal reflection on loss, memory, and what we owe the past and others, inspired by a night spent in Athens’ Acropolis … Continue reading

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Review: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as … Continue reading

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

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: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of the most gifted authors of her generation” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a … Continue reading

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Review: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookskhop Synopsis: Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. When Louise finds out her parents have died, she … Continue reading

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