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Review: Extinction Peak by Lucas Mangum
Paperback, 163 pages Published September 22nd 2020 by Madness Heart Press Buy it here: Madness Heart Press, Amazon, Bookshop Synposis: When the raptors come out of sinkholes across the United States, Deandra Antigone Merriweather’s elder brother Johnny sees the chaos as … Continue reading
Review: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on … Continue reading
Review: Seventeen Names for Skin by Roland Blackburn
Published August 31st 2020 by Weirdpunk BooksISBN1951658167 (ISBN13: 9781951658168) Buy it here: Weirdpunk Books, Bookshop, or Amazon Synopsis: After a cancer diagnosis gives her six months to live, Snow Turner does what any introverted body-piercer might: hire a dark-web assassin and take … Continue reading
Review: The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy here: Bookshop Synopsis: Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He’s never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the … Continue reading
Review: It Came From the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers
Synopsis: Welcome to tonight’s feature presentation, brought to you by an unholy alliance of our spellcasters at Hex Publishers and movie-mages at the Colorado Festival of Horror. Please be advised that all emergency exits have been locked for this special … Continue reading
Review: Kanye West – Reanimator by Joshua Chaplinsky and H.P. Lovecraft
Synopsis Of Kanye West, who was my friend in college and after he dropped out, I can speak only with extreme sadness… So begins this epic cautionary tale of ambition and hubris. A bizarre mix of Lovecraft and hip-hop history, … Continue reading
Review: Death Fortune by Sean Thomas Fisher
Buy it Here: Amazon Synopsis: It begins with your fortune.And ends with your freak death. After inheriting an animated fortune teller machine, Jimmy’s luck is finally about to change. But for better or worse? He hauls the old cabinet home … Continue reading
Review: African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
Buy here: bookshop Synopsis: Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and relentless internal chatter. Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to … Continue reading
Review: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Buy it here Synopsis: People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father’s head, from Harlem to … Continue reading
Review: Hybrid Moments A Literary Tribute to the Misfits Edited by Sam Richard and MP Johnson
Buy it at the publisher here Synopsis You know the songs. They’re etched into every punk’s brain. Not just because they’re catchy, but because there’s something else there. Glenn Danzig’s lyrics evoke intense imagery. Beautiful, dark, monstery imagery. There’s poetry … Continue reading
