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Review: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Buy Here: Current edition unavailable. Preorder new edition here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s—a darkness that … Continue reading

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Review: Sundial by Catriona Ward

Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street. You can’t escape what’s in your blood… All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost … Continue reading

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Review: New Animal by Ella Baxter

Buy Here: Two Dollar Radio, Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: New Animal is a poignant, darkly comedic look at human connection from a biting and original new voice in Ella Baxter. Amelia Aurelia is approaching thirty and her closest relationships ― other than … Continue reading

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Review: Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students—a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession … Continue reading

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Review: The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis:; Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where … Continue reading

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Review: Something More Than Night by Kim Newman

Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Dulwich College, England 1904. A young Raymond Chandler meets an enthusiastic cricketer named Billy Pratt (later Boris Karloff). Sharing a sense of being outsiders at school, the two young men become friends and Chandler encourages … Continue reading

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Review: Below by Laurel Hightower

Pre-order Here: Ghoulish Books Synopsis: While driving through the mountains of West Virginia during a late-night snowstorm, a recently divorced woman experiences bizarre electrical problems, leaving her with little choice but to place her trust with a charismatic truck driver. … Continue reading

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Review: Night Shift by Stephen King

Buy here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Never trust your heart to the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King. Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories “Children of the Corn,” “The Lawnmower Man,” “Graveyard Shift,” “The Mangler,” … Continue reading

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Review: The Strange Bird: A Borne Story by Jeff VanderMeer

Buy it Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of … Continue reading

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Review: Xstabeth by David Keenan

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A transcendent love letter to literature and music, Xstabeth is an exciting new work from a writer who, book-by-book, is rewriting the rules of contemporary fiction. Aneliya’s father dreams of becoming a great musician … Continue reading

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