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Continue reading →: Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black HorrorEdited by Jordan Peele Release date: 2023 We learned the lesson early, felt it down to our bones: Of all the tools of oppression, fear was the cruelest. – Maurice Broaddus, The Norwood Trouble I now have a list of authors whose books I simply MUST read. This anthology of… Read More
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Continue reading →: An Interview With Bauder on My Father’s Name is WarAn important work of fiction which wraps the author’s experiences into a clarion call for all former warfighters: Inform the next generation and stop the spread of the war machine and all it continues to destroy in its wake. When I found out I might be able to interview Bauder… Read More
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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Heartbreaking, spine-tingling, funny, and eloquently written. Set during the first few months of the COVID outbreak, Cora Zeng is trying to navigate the world as a crime scene cleaner after watching her sister get murdered on the subway platform. When she starts seeing a pattern to the crimes she’s cleaning up, she’s convinced there is…
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Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester
Release Date: December 9, 2025 An ancient curse afflicting generations of women, religious trauma, witchcraft, and sapphic longing…a Tour-De-Force by a uniquely refreshing voice in horror. I went into Dark Sisters with the expectation I was going to read an historical witchcraft story, but what I got was a haunting masterpiece of feminine rage and…
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WILLIAM by Mason Coile
Man builds robot, robot is evil, chaos ensues…but what is really going on here? This book drew me in from page one and sent me spiraling on a journey I had no idea would end the way it did! I’m rarely completely caught off guard and Mason Coile executed the twist to this “cyber-noir” AI…
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The Haunting of Luke Schumer by Jennifer Osborn
Do you believe in demons? Jennifer Osborn will make you believe. From the Publisher: Thanks Jennifer, I will never be able to shop at a yard sale again. But seriously, this novella is a wild ride of demonic possession and body horror. Luke is thoroughly relatable: a regular guy who like’s to peruse estate sales…
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Brother by Ania Ahlborn
A West Virginia family is bound by blood, a lot of blood, and secrets…and Michael Morrow just doesn’t feel like he fits in with Momma, Wade, Reb, and Misty Dawn. A heart-pounding, page turning, gore-filled tragedy that I read in one day, Ania Ahlborn delivers again. Michael has always felt different from his family, the…
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