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Continue reading →: The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd KeislingHeartbreaking, terrifying, cosmic body horror. From the Publisher: Jerry is a loveable character from the start. The community of Fairview Acres seems like a nice place for him to live out his days…at first. Things start to spiral with a lot of worms, scratching on the roof, and a weird… Read More
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Continue reading →: At the Bottom of the Garden by Camilla Brucewhat happens when two sisters with supernatural abilities move in with a reluctant aunt, who also happens to be a murderer? Told from the alternating perspectives of Lily, Violet, and Clara, this gothic horror is filled with creeping dread and tension. Lily and Violet are two sisters recently orphaned after… Read More
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Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Synopsis To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?” When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the same question, over and over . .…
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When You Leave I Disappear: A Novella by David Niall Wilson
Synopsis USA Today bestselling author David Niall Wilson’s When You Leave I Disappear is a literary horror novella in which a bestselling author’s imposter syndrome draws her into a darker and darker world from which she may never escape. Review Trigger warnings: none I am so confused and I want more. This novella had me turning the pages…
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Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
Synopsis Newly-minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain, and anxiously contemplating her upcoming marriage to careful, precise researcher Oscar. The only reprieve…
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I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
Synopsis Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules: He cannot look inside the box.He cannot ask questions.He cannot tell anyone.They must leave immediately.He…
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Where I End by Sophie White
Synopsis My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shared wall, I can hear the makings of my mother gurgle through her body just like the water in the walls of the house… Teenage Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent, bed-bound mother is a wreckage,…
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