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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: Exploring Dark Short Fiction – A Primer to Ramsey Campbell

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 13, 2021September 13, 2021
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“A Primer to Ramsey Campbell” collects six short stories by the legendary horror writer Ramsey Campbell with essays, interviews, and more.

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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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Thrift Store Finds: The Nightwalker

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on October 1, 2020October 16, 2020
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The Nightwalker turned out to be a skillfully written, fast-paced little horror novel with a fresh take on a supernatural subgenre. How’s that for a pull quote?

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Thrift Store Finds: The House Next Door

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 1, 2020August 31, 2020
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It’s Thrift Store Finds time! We’re throwing back the curtains and turning on the party lights because today we’re celebrating one of the best haunted house novels ever written. But […]

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Thrift Store Finds: The Worms

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on August 4, 2020August 5, 2020
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It’s time for more Thrift Store Finds! Today we’ve finally shaken off the stink of the neverending sex demons that were stalking us and landed in a pile of giant, […]

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Close up shot of an illustrated bloody ax covered in wrapping paper.
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Thrift Store Finds: Black Christmas

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 15, 2019December 21, 2020
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Before we get too deep, this is not THAT “Black Christmas.”

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Evil Santa's reflection in a jingle bell on the cover of Jo Gibson's Slay Bells
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Thrift Store Finds: Slay Bells

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 8, 2019April 5, 2020
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You better watch out, you better not cry. Santa Clause is coming to decimate a bunch of teens.

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Soul Eater house from Dana Brookins' horror novel
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Thrift Store Finds: Soul Eater

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 2, 2019April 5, 2020
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Dana Brookins’ Soul Eater checks the boxes of a classic haunted house book: flawed characters, a run down town, skeptics, believers. And yet in classic mid-80s fashion, it still ends up marching to the beat of its own drum.

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