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Thrift Store Finds: The Ritual

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on May 30, 2022May 30, 2022
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Equal parts outrageous and tedious, progressive and sexist, “The Ritual” is 80s horror fiction in its purest form.

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Book Review: Howls from the Dark Ages

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
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Every flavor of archaic tale can be found within the pages of this book from white knights and weird witches to aging monks and youthful kings.

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Book Review: Dead Silence

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 24, 2021December 24, 2021
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“Dead Silence” by S.A. Barnes is a masterful new addition to the science fiction and horror realms filled with twists, turns, and terror.

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Book Review: Body Shocks

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 24, 2021September 24, 2021
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If you count yourself among those lovers of carnal dismay, then Tachyon Publications’ new collection, “Body Shocks,” will be just what the doctor ordered.

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Book Review: Nothing But Blackened Teeth

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 4, 2021September 4, 2021
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At the top of Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth (Tor Nightfire), five friends have just arrived at a decaying mansion in rural Japan for a wedding. A strange setting […]

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Book Review: Beyond the Veil

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on August 26, 2021August 26, 2021
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Editor Mark Morris and his team have created a fascinating anomaly with Beyond the Veil, a themeless collection of short horror stories from Flame Tree Press (Oct. 19, 2021).

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Book Review: Transmuted

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021
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From this first soul-crushing setback, author Eve Harms’s effortlessly readable prose takes readers on an unpredictable journey that is guaranteed to delight and horrify in equal measure.

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Book Review: Bath Haus

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on June 4, 2021June 4, 2021
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From the very beginning we’re taught not to lie. Truth is virtuous, they tell us, while dishonesty equals sin. But no matter how often we are directed toward this golden […]

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Book Review: The Bully

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on May 17, 2021May 17, 2021
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If there is one universal truth it’s that we all have to work.

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Book Review: Goblin

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on May 3, 2021May 13, 2021
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In Goblin (Del Ray), out May 18, 2021, author Josh Malerman has taken the beloved anthology format and turned it into an effective and thrilling novel.

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