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Review: Playworld by Adam Ross

Posted on January 7, 2025 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut (“A brilliant, powerful, and … 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: Coup de Grace by Sofia Ajram

Posted on October 22, 2024 by ghostvillehero

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

Posted on October 20, 2024 by ghostvillehero

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

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: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

Posted on September 20, 2024 by ghostvillehero

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: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

Posted on September 5, 2024 by ghostvillehero

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

Posted on September 2, 2024 by ghostvillehero

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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Review: Fathers and Fugitives by S.J. Naude

Posted on August 28, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An inventive and emotionally charged novel about fatherhood and family, loyalty and betrayal, inheritance and belonging. Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but … Continue reading →

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