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Review: Like Real by Shelly Lyons

Buy it here: Publisher Website, Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: In Shelly Lyons’s debut novel, LIKE REAL, Vic Moss—kenjutsu hobbyist and clueless Lothario—lets vanity dictate his decision to acquire an experimental new-tech prosthesis that promises to evolve into a seamless, realistic looking … Continue reading

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Review: The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. … Continue reading

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Review: Mothered by Zoje Stage

Buy it here Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman’s nightmarish spiral while quarantined with her mother. Grace isn’t exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They’ve never had a … Continue reading

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Review: Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Buy it here: Bookshop, Barnes & Noble Synopsis: Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself … Continue reading

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Review: Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies?Have you ever … Continue reading

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Review: Inspection by Josh Malerman

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school’s enigmatic … Continue reading

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Review: Death of a Dancing Queen by Kimberly G. Giarratano

Preorder it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: After her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Billie Levine revamped her grandfather’s private investigation firm and set up shop in the corner booth of her favorite North Jersey deli hoping the free pickles and flexible hours … Continue reading

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Review: Festival by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: New York Times bestselling horror writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon create a music festival to die for in this illustrated novel with artwork by Peter Bergting! The Valhalla music festival commemorates a long-ago Viking … Continue reading

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Review: A Small Light and Other Stories by Sara Century

Buy it Here: Publisher Website, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A mysterious woman stalks a seaside town. An isolated couple inhabit a house full of tropical birds. A rowboat floats down a river toward a witch’s cave. Death wanders an unnamed city … Continue reading

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Review: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: What Moves the Dead is Kingfisher’s retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.” When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is … Continue reading

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