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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisMariana Enriquez|title=The Wraiths of War (Obsidian Heart book 3)A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=FantasyShort Stories|summary=Although not dead as he thought he wasMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, Alex Locke feels no closer achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to finding his missing daughter across time oran urban planning mishap, indeed, unmasking an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the dark mansupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. However, he knows what he has to do|isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Alex must use the obsidian heart to travel back It's their opening weekend and fight in World War I beside the ghostly soldier who visited him a century or so latersplendid celebrations are promised. It's not as simple as all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it seemsinto an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as Alex keeps telling himself… or rather well as Alexes (plural) keep telling himselffriends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168741</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul TremblayRichard Kadrey|title=A Head full of Ghosts The Pale House Devil

|summary=Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I don't normally go in for horror storiesguess, mainly because though really the way I usually can't take thought of them seriously enough to suspend disbelief. But ''A Head full through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of Ghosts'' appealed to methem is living, you see, somehow - perhaps I was just curious to read and the novel that ''scared other is undead, and so one of them kills the living hell out of'' Stephen King. Or maybe I was interested to see how Paul Tremblay dealt with , and the other kills the schizophrenic behaviour of his teenage protagonistundead. And I was certainly intrigued by the highly original storyline described in the blurb: when Marjorie (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a teenage girl, starts behaving erraticallyjob in New York that goes badly, her family can't cope and call in so they head out to the local priest West coast to try to lay low for a while and, ultimately, find some other work to keep them going. But when a TV crew who start young woman called Tilda hires them to film kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a reality show about exorcisms. whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785653679</amazonuk>1803363894

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V H LeslieRachel Harrison|title= Bodies of WaterBad Dolls|rating= 3.54|genre= ParanormalShort Stories|summary= Bodies of Water is It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from the perspectives couple of Kirstenmisspent teen years reading Stephen King, a modern day woman on borrowing the mend books from a broken heart, boy I fancied at school and Evelyn, a nineteenth century 'guestscaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn' t shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of a water treatment centre for ailing women. Kirsten moves into the old Wakewater Housevampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, attempting and I didn't have to heal herself with the proximity read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the water. Centuries agofact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, Evelyn was forced by her father to visit and that same house at least in order to restore her old vigourpart, but the water cannot drown out the ghost that haunts her. In facthorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, the water itself is trying a powerful and supernatural force. As the water encroaches upon both of their livesnew dieting app, Kirsten going to a hen party and Evelyn search to unveil the mysteries of the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before thema coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>1803363932

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Jason ArnoppChuck Tingle|title=The Last Days of Jack SparksCamp Damascus|rating=3.5

|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The great era of Lad Lit spanned from 1995-2005, but writers like Dave Gorman UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime and Danny Wallace grew up, so in 2016 they are doing something a little more serious like writing fictionthe US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Jack Spark Although it is an imaginary writer of this Lad Litboth a secular and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, but whilst in his first book had him on a pogo stick bouncing from one end new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of Britain to Christian ''pray the other, his later books tackled gangs and drugs. For his final book he chose gay away'' camps to tackle show the supernatural, a subject that could be reader the end of himhorror lurking within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507181</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Joshua Gaylord1529382823|title= When We Were AnimalsThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 4.5|genre= HorrorThrillers|summary= For three nights every month when the moon Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is full, children living middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a small isolated town who have reached puberty experience cruise to New York on ''Atlantica'breaching'. On these nights Caz's sister, Gemma, their actions are dictated by either passion or violence – they become feral and animalistic abandoning their human nature reckons that Pete is going to run wild and naked propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the streets. Beginning, typically at 15 the breach lasts for approximately a year his suit pocket and after, those children become adultsshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They'When We Were Animals' follows Lumen Fowler's life growing up in ve not been a couple for that long and the town expressing her desire trip will be an excellent opportunity to be different and avoid the town's rite of passage into adulthoodget to know him a bit better. Lumen Meanwhile, Gemma is determined not to be overcome by the moon and control her own destiny; looking after all her Caz's cafe as well as their mother didn't 'breach' so neither will shewho has dementia. But slowly one by one her peers breach and she It's left behind struggling going to grow upbe good, becoming more and more aware of her dark wild side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030957</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Grady HendrixEric LaRocca|title= My Best Friend's ExorcismThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There

|summary=1988, Charleston, South CarolinaHorror taps into something primeval within us. High school sophomores Abby It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth gradehow we as humans react and process them. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. SheMost horror fiction feature a 's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever sheBig Bad's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and , by the time their end of the story reaches its terrifying conclusion, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the fate horrors of Abby illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough are harder to beat the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>defeat than any ''Big Bad''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Olde HeuveltB0BHR8KWSK|title=HexDukkha|author=Martin Hyde|rating=54

|summary=Steve and Jocelyn had moved to Black Spring before their boys were bornSam wakes up chained in a basement. Now Tyler He rails against his captor and Matt are teenagers and none of them could consider living anywhere else. Would this be due to the beautiful surroundings or the closeness injustice of the small townhis imprisonment? Why? ''s camaraderieWhy? No, it has more to do with a 17th century witch's curse. The same witch who still moves around the town, spying on the good folk – and the bad - from within their homes. They've come to an understanding with her over the years, but now the young people want to experiment and nothing will be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444793217</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1444793217</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author= Darren Shan|title= Zom-B Goddess (Zom B 12)|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! 

Go onBut of course, he knows why. Run along|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077961</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Keith Lee Morris|title= Travelers Rest|rating= 4.5|genre= Horror|summary= I was Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to a retreat and emerging as a little bit sceptical of Travelers Rest at firstneophyte Buddhist monk. A novel set Recently returning to join the community in an his old hotelneighbourhood, buried in snow, where strange things start happening? A young boy whose parents start acting strangely, perhaps foreshadowing tragedy? Now that sounds familiar. But I managed he knew his past would be hard to push away those thoughts, and I’m glad I did. The story may be well-known, escape but the execution is all he hadn't imagined it exploding into this newlife in quite such a violent fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297608940</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RansomGolden|title=Beneath The LakeRoad of Bones

|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=The Mercer family are on Kolyma Highway… the holiday 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a lifetime at thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the somewhat remote Blundstone Lake in Nebraskaworld's most notorious routes. It is all For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the things permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a camping holiday should be; tranquillity huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and beautiful scenery in spades other Siberian minerals, and lots because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of good oldour main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-fashioned family fun. When another family arrivemaker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the Mercers try not project to feel disappointed that their solitude has been encroached upon and do their best fruition to keep out claw back some of the other familyfunds he'd invested in the pair's wayprior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, but when gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the newcomersguide' family disharmony becomes violent and murderous, The Mercers have no option but to become rather more acquainted with them than they had bargained fors childhood village. And so their lives are forever altered.that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555223</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisAlly Wilkes|title=The Society of Blood (Obsidian Heart book 2)All the White Spaces

|summary=In order post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to find live life as his kidnapped daughter Alex Locke still needs to find authentic self and true gender, without the Obsidian Heartdisapproval and constraints of his parents. The trail leads back from 21st century gangland London to However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the dark, dirty 19th century version confines of his past and the capital. Here the streets that witnessed Jack shadow of the Ripper's murders only war hangs like a couple of years before are just as lethal but funeral shroud over the danger isn't totally humanexpedition. Alex doesn't quite know how you'd classify itGuilt, but it stands between him mistrust and grief stalk the person who means party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the most Arctic winter alive, he will have to him so walking away isn't an optionface his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168709</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Amanda Mason|title=The UndesiredHiding Place|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=If you're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell you, even in this day and age, that the place is heavily populated with trolls3. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with that, but she certainly peoples her world with ghosts. Here is Odinn, and to some extent his ghost – certainly there's the ghost of 'what if' around him, and the man he might have been if he hadn't abandoned the young mother of his child. Here is that very wife, who is now dead herself. Here is the spirit of failure as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, to investigate a children's care home in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went on. And that place certainly should be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Mitchell|title=Slade House|rating=5

|summary=Once every nine years Jonah Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and Norah Greyer entertain stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a guest; each time a different person… or persons. Each visitor walks through cliffside holiday cottage by the small black door name of Slade Elder House for various reasons of their own. Or at least they think they know why theyShe hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there're there but only Jonah s something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and Norah know the real reason off – the only reasonand before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1473616689</amazonuk>Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1787301435|title=The UndesiredDark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=If you're lucky enough Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to go to Iceland they will tell you, even drive down the private road in this day Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and age, that she could push the place is heavily populated with trollscar to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with that, but When the blond child stepped out in front of her she certainly peoples her world with ghostsinstinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a tree. Here is Odinn, and to some extent his ghost – certainly there's When she came round after the ghost of accident she couldn'what if' around himt work out where she was, and the man he might have been if he hadnbut it obviously wasn't abandoned the young mother of his childa conventional hospital. Here is that very wifeShe'd made her first mistake some time ago, who is now dead herself. Here is although the spirit of failure as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, realisation wouldn't be obvious to investigate her for a childrenlong time. She's care home in the 1970s d made it when she chose to see if anything nefarious went onhave her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4. And that place certainly should be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyGrady Hendrix|title=Demon RoadThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=45|genre=TeensHorror|summary= Amber Lamont was a relatively ordinary 16-year-old Women, living a pretty quietby and large, uneventful life; she went to school, had a part-time job, and a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parents. But over have always been the course of just one day everything goes completely to hellsubjugated sex. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demon, a genuine, red-skinned, satanic monster, with horns and talons that can rip a human Throughout history they have been confined to shreds. Her demon side is mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the least of her problems, however. For Amber's parents are also demons, powerful man and now that her powers have manifested, they are intent on eating her and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on the run, travelling the Demon Road across America let nothing stand in a desperate attempt to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets of his ownway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008140812</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Will Hill|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book 5)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Zero Hour has passed. Despite throwing absolutely everything they had into a full on assault on DraculaClub's forces, the combined might of the supernatural departments failed Guide to destroy the ancient vampire, and he has returned to full strength, ready to strike at humanity with unadulterated violenceSlaying Vampires'' gives women their due. Secrecy It is no longer an option as ode to the entire world reels from the revelation that vampires are realstrong selfless housewife. Department 19 has been through so much, shaken to its core Hendrix illustrates this by secrets, betrayals and losses. With the public eye now firmly upon having them, the very fundamentals of the Department come under fire, as issues of morality that have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst go toe to the fore. Jamie, Larissa, Kate and Matt have always found themselves at the centre of the chaos, and despite each struggling toe with a predatory male vampire who moves in to their own demons, their friendship and companionship has helped them survive and even thrive within the department. Humanity's last stand will need them at their very best, will need every force that the supernatural departments of the world can muster, whether it be human, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when the entire future of humanity is at stakequiet cul de sac. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>1683691431

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon Bisley1529009677|title=13 CoinsA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan

|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It''For s not just the love usual growing apart after more than a decade of money is the root of all kinds of evilmarriage.'' ThereTheir son, I've done it – quoted the Bible Michael, was killed in a reviewcar crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. It's certainly pertinent in Not only did he kill himself when the world of this graphic novelcar rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, where the fallen angels have one getfifteen-year-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian eventsold Fiona Connor. They turned Tom can't think about Michael without a little section sense of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coins, which can influence the human holders into sheer evilshame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but might just cause an open war on Heaven, whether they or the best of the holy on earth use them allshe wants to forgive Michael. The best of the holy thenTo give some space, offspring Tom's moved out of the good angelsfamily home, are culled as a routinebut stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, but not one – John PoznerHolly, who of course has no idea of his place in the celestial circle of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>that it is only a trial separation.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert BrockwayStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title= The UnnoticeablesOrphans of the Tide|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalConfident Readers|summary= Carey is a punk living in New York CityIn the last city on Earth, 1977. Sick of watching his friends anyone can be abducted and killed, he doesn’t care about the rumours vessel of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to do wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is drink beer and kick ass. In pulled from the present daycorpse of a whale, Kaitlyn is in Hollywood. A stuntwomanthe citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, she has a missing best friendgirl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, has just escaped an attempt on Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her lifedeepest, and an angel is waiting outside her doordarkest secrets.. The survival of the human race lies in the hands of Carey and Kaitlyn. We are, all of us, well and truly screwed…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>0241384435

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Edginton and Alex Sanchez1789090873|title=The Evil WithinDread Nation|author=Justina Ireland|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic NovelsHorror|summary=What do you fear most? And when you've answered that, think 'Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on why – is it something that happened a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg '' Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to you, something you saw or read, or something you yourself did? The nature of horror walk the streets. An event which is looked at in this graphic novel, which spins interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the usual web of nightmares around some fit young adultschanging world, minorities are forced into conscription and tests them with graphic death on under the cards at the same time as keeping them new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dark about what has brought the doom dead once and gloom to themfor all. Starting with DanaFor Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a college girl seeking her kidnapped best friend, things get darker, weirderbetter life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and forever more violent…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>are valued above all else.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Knox1471407764|title=WakeThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=35

|summary= Theresa – Martha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a policewoman investigating a helicopter crash, finds herself in Kahukuratree, she wakes with a New Zealand settlement that on first appearances is relatively calm and beautifuldisturbing gift. HoweverShe can read people through their clothes, as soon as secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she arrivesdoesn't really want, a wave of violence and madness hits the town – with the locals intent on destroying both themselves and each otherknowledge she doesn't understand. As the wave of madness passesShe flees to her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, it becomes clear that there seeking answers no one is a field surrounding the town – trapping the survivors inside. They must work together to grieve, come prepared to terms with what they have done, give and to find stumbles into a way out world of the situationmenace. As the madness threatens to return, the fear that the violence may return becomes an increasing reality…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin J Myers1788950720|title=The Grindle WitchWhiteout (Red Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=''Deep in the woods something evil is stirring...''Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!

You can say that againCharlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. Jack JollyHe's father is not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a pathologist bad attitude reputation and neither he nor the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's bodynot a popular kid. Whoever or whatever killed the old man has carried out the most savage attack anyone has ever seen. And Jack, who has just moved Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought it do if you're staying in a boring ski resort - and dull place this is what brings him into contact with unfriendly peopleone of the ski guides, where nothing ever happensHanna. How wrong could he Hanna herself doesn't have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B Reid9386897385|title=Beyond the Trees of Gulavstadt: A Gothic Short StoryNothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyHorror|summary=Amy works for Claralingua, a London education company that runs English schools all over We never know the world, and Amy is travelling man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to Gulavstadt, a remote town in Eastern Europecall him, to inspect one of the schoolsnot least because he found it annoying. Gulavstadt When we first meet Boyo his mother is a town of myths and the setting of a recent horror filmalive, if not ''living'The Thing Behind the Trees'as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, exploiting them - featuring medievalfirstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, flesh-eating ghouls with mouths lined with the sharpest of teeth. But myths don't bother Amy.but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00U9I7KNI</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Pinborough1538761858|title=The Death HouseAnomaly|author=Michael Rutger

|summary=There are some obvious things in life Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (and deathif rather inept), but one team of the most clear is that Hell will be Hellish. This is a place that sinners go internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to be punished(spoilers) actually find one. HoweverImagine if, for every Dante’s Infernoinstead of being scared by their own acting, there Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is a depiction the starting point of hell that is not so badthis book. Who really wants to read something depressing about Deep in a cave within the desolation Grand Canyon our team of souls, apart from those pesky 14th Century types? According to ''The Devil’s Detective'', people adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the 21st Century do tooblend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195651X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Frozen Charlotte|author=Alex Bell|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Sophie and Jay play around with a ouija board app that Jay has downloaded to his phone, things go awfully wrong. Sophie asks to speak to Rebecca, a cousin of hers who died in mysterious circumstances. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very night, Jay drowns in the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accident. Or was it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Jekyll's Mirror|author=William Hussey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam is doing his best but he feels the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother to death, wouldn't you? He tries to concentrate on schoolwork and his art and keep that anger locked away deep down inside, but it's not easy. His aunt Cora does her best to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustful, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasn't fallen far from (his father's) tree.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Jesse Bullington (editor)1683690122|title=Letters to Lovecraft : Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness|rating=4|genre=HorrorWe Sold Our Souls|summary=Howard Phillips Lovecraft was, to me, the author of ruinously mediocre post-Victorian penny dreadful horror fiction, concerning far too numerous many-tentacled, secretly-worshipped, extra-dimensional monster threats to mankind for his – and our – own good. It's little wonder that he lived and died in poverty, and only became of note posthumously. That note seems to be building, however, hence this collection of stories by many award-winning modern writers of the dark and macabre, all looking back yet going much further, and pretty much all providing us with a showcase for their own, contemporary talent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908983108</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lynne Truss|title=Cat out of HellGrady Hendrix|rating=35

|summary=Meet Alec CharlesworthThe night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. HeFew know of her past as guitarist of 90's retired and decamped Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of his colleague wife, now that violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has died before her time. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that were pinged across by someone at may have sabotaged more than just the college he worked at, just before he leftband. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence of In a journey that will take Kris from a talking cat called Roger, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cat. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most only dusty hotel to a few of the characters canhellish music festival, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alecshe's wife. It's only when Roger testifies determined to having been pushed through face the ends of endurance man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and out threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to defeat the other side that we begin to doubt where odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the true evil in this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>Earth…?

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|summary=In a world the third and final part of nightmares, disasters, death and ignominy there is a book called the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead Funny''. Invented purely series, Dave Pulaski is headed to satisfy the remit built into its title, it collects some horror stories written by comedians, both household names and those more up-Los Angeles – seeking revenge and-comingretribution. Like all horror books it comes out at With the time events of year best suited for horror – Halloweenbook two still weighing heavily on Dave, when we read with he struggles against the darkest corners in our rooms, with the longest evenings outside rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – but is only suited for Halloween because it is a worthless, hellish piece of drossyoung escapee from the secret testing facility. It never excitesAs events come to a climax, it is the most selfand Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-serving vanity projectmilitary sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, and the only funny thing about it is that some idiot stakes are higher than ever decided before – will Dave make it was worth publishing. Now I know you know, courtesy out of those bright shiny stars alongside this review, that this volume, Dead Funny, is not ''that'' Dead Funny. But just bear in mind the horror story this could have been, if these pages were not so surprisingly adept at taking those said nightmares, disasters, deaths and ignominy and presenting them to us so competently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773762</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short Stories|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard Thomas|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound right. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your head, or better yet not thinking of them at all. When these words are spoken they could lead to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect alive? And what kind of knowing what you said was wrong. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust and questionwill he have left?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>