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Book Review: Body Shocks

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 24, 2021September 24, 2021
  • 1 Comment

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
  • 2 Comments

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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Posted in Book Reviews, Horror

Book Review: Transmuted

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021
  • 1 Comment

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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Posted in Book Reviews, Horror

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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Illustration of a young woman in a blue dress standing in front of a hedge maze.
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Book Review: Goblin

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on May 3, 2021May 13, 2021
  • 1 Comment

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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An illustration of a howling gray wolf.
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Book Review: Howls from Hell

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on April 12, 2021April 13, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Howls from Hell is a collection of sixteen excellent new short horror stories guaranteed to please fans of the macabre.

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Posted in Book Reviews, Featured

Thrift Store Finds: Mazes and Monsters

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 10, 2020December 9, 2020
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After reading several fantastic books in a row, I rolled the polyhedral die and the result was a punch in the face from Miss Rona. Rona Jaffe, that is.

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Thrift Store Finds: October

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on October 8, 2020October 10, 2020
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Al Sarrantonio could easily be crowned the King of Halloween.

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