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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]==Horror==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew FukudaMariana Enriquez|title=The HuntA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=Gene - not Mariana Enriquez writes horror that he remembers he's called Gene - is one disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of the few remaining survivors in a city peopled by vampires. His mother disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and sister were killed when he was just tiny and his father finally succumbed to a fang bite infection some years before. Gene's life is crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all about concealmentwithin Argentina. He shaves his body hair. He's careful to avoid any situation in which he might sweat - swimming is ok, but other sports The circumstances of her characters are not. He files his nails. He behaves, always, as a vampire would behave. Everything is going so well until plausible that the Heper Hunt is announced..supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075411</amazonuk>1803511230
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martine McDonagh0008385068|title=I Have Waited, and You Have ComeThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=RachelIt's world is in a state of decay. Her house is falling apart, her boyfriend has left her and civilization has crumbled in midsummer on the wake of plague Dorset coast and extreme climate changeguests gather at The Manor. Her only friend, Stephanie, is separated from Rachel by the now insurmountable barrier of the Atlantic Ocean, It's their communication dependent on an increasingly unreliable satellite connecting their phonesopening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. At Stephanie It's prompting Rachel gives all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her number to local trader Noah, who promises to call. Instead the number falls ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the hands of the mysterious wealthy and sinister Jez Whitefamous. Her husband, initiating a disturbing game of cat and mouseOwen, where was the line between stalker architect and victim becomes blurred as Rachel finally decides to take control work is still ongoing on parts of her lifethe site.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Jackson Bennett|title= The Troupe|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=George never knew his father, a man with whom his mother had a brief relationship when heat is oppressive and amongst the Vaudeville - a travelling theatre company - came to townguests are enemies as well as friends. Sixteen years later and George is following in the footsteps he believes Old scores are going to be his father's, by playing piano at a theatre on the circuit settled and hoping his father will show up. He doesnit won't, so George goes in search of him. The first glimpse George has of the man he thinks of as his father is at one of the troupe's shows. He be long before a body is captivated not just by Silenus, but by the entire companyfound.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500403</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen DunmoreRichard Kadrey|title=The GreatcoatPale House Devil
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Set in 1952 in YorkshireFord and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a young couple move into a rented flat. Philip of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and the newother is undead, young doctor while his new wife Isabel struggles with and so one of them kills the isolated life with no friends or family living, and Philipthe other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). They's frequent absence due re on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to the demands of his jobWest coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them going. Things take But when a turn young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the spooky when, waking from under the warmth 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of the old greatcoat Isabel finds in the flatfamily history, she hears and a tapping at the window and finds there an RAF pilot, Alec, who appears to know Isabel intimately.terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099564939</amazonuk>1803363894
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HodkinRachel Harrison|title=The Unbecoming Of Mara DyerBad Dolls|rating=54|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=Mara has just started her whole life over - new city, new school, new start. It's just what been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the doctor ordered, books from a boy I fancied at school and her family scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - though still treating her this short story collection isn't like she might fall apart at any moment - are tentatively hopeful that it! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn's just what she needs t have to get back on her feet. Mara just hopes her memories return. She needs to know what happened read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the night her two best friends fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and her boyfriend died that at least in an accident she somehow managed part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to escape unscatheda hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707363X</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Gerry O'HaraChuck Tingle|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In TransylvaniaCamp Damascus
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Horror|summary=I normally start reviews with Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a brief plot summarycrime and, in the US, but nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it seems almost besides the point to do so for is both a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes secular and the Affair a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in Transylvaniahis new horror, ''Camp Damascus''. From those seven words, peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to show the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is a Holmes meets Dracula story, and so we may as well move straight on to the burning question – is it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>horror lurking within.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Golden (Editor)1529382823|title=Monster's CornerThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean
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|genre=AnthologiesThrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz'The Monster) is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica's Corner'. Caz' s sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a collection of tales that are told from the monsterring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's perspectiverelieved or disappointed. It takes the idea They've not been a couple for that we are all the heroes of our own story long and has a gloriously good time with it. Ranging from the thought-provoking trip will be an excellent opportunity to the strange, get to the shocking and gory – they're know him a great selection of stories from the likes of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]]bit better. Meanwhile, [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin JGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Anderson]] It's going to be good, Sarah Pinborough and many others.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, 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 horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colson WhiteheadB0BHR8KWSK|title=Zone OneDukkha|author=Martin Hyde
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=To start, for once, with the book's style - this has probably the least dialogue of any book you'll read this year. There are some comments from characters, but they're few and far between - as are those characters that can actually speak. For we're in a devastated New York, later this century, and our three main protagonists are cleaning Sam wakes up after a worldwide plague of zombies. The active ones have mostly been gunned down by the military, but there are a few still locked away in hidden corners - as well as inactive ones, called stragglers, who seem stuck chained in one instant, whether finishing off their last office job for the millionth time, or like a ghost haunting a place relevant to thembasement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846555981</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Mister Creecher|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ooh, ooh - two Frankenstein-related books one after He rails against his captor and the other! More injustice of that in the further reading at the end. ''Mr Creecher'' isn't a retelling, a sequel or a prequel; ithis imprisonment? Why? 's an interlude, set midway through the events of Mary Shelley's novel. ItWhy?'s Regency London, the Industrial Revolution is beginning to crank up, and Billy is an orphan and pickpocket trying to survive in the grimy streets. About to rob what he thinks is a corpse, Billy is set upon by some acquaintances to whom he owes money. Before Fletcher's knife prises out Billy's eye, the corpse - not a corpse at all, in case you didn't guess - comes to his rescue. This huge, shambling man is not a pretty sight. But he has a job for Billy. Mr Creecher has come to London on the trail of Victor Frankenstein, with whom he has a bargain. And he needs Billy to follow Frankenstein to make sure he doesn't renege on the deal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811049</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Niki ValentineChristopher Golden|title=The HauntedRoad of Bones
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=ValentineThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's novel opens with one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a sinister tale that has nothing to do with haunted boths – but everything to do with rotting relationshipshuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Susan Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and Martin are attempting because he wanted to have give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a second honeymoon life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but the dynamic between them that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is clearly flawed from a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the very start. Susan seems project to fruition to be experiencing feelings claw back some of seemingly hysteriathe funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-driven lovechatty local guide, continually alternating with resentment. The opening scenes are played out in gain the relative calm company of a smart hotellocal beauty, but the tension and irritations between fetch up at the couple are painfully clearguide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751545082</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillAlly Wilkes|title=The Woman in Black|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Arthur Kipps is a young solicitor working in a fog-bound London and soon to be married. All looks rosy for Arthur until one day he is called into his boss' office where he is tasked with the affairs of the deceased recluse Alice Drablow. Alice Drablow had lived in the melancholy village of Crythin Gifford in an isolated house on the remote Eel Marsh, a house only accessible by a strange causeway when the tide is out. It is here Arthur must travel to firstly represent his firm at her funeral and then to sift through Mrs Drablow's house to ensure all her legal paperwork is in order. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685621</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thierry Jonquet|title=Tarantula: The Skin I Live In|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In a large French country house, an expert in facial reconstruction surgery keeps a beautiful woman locked up in her bedroom. He placates her with opium, but barks orders through hugely powerful speakers and an intercom. She tantalises him with her sexuality, which he tries to ignore, except for when he seems to abuse it in a sort of S/M way when he does let her into society, as he forces her to prostitute herself. Elsewhere, a young, inept bank robber holes himself up in a sunny house, waiting for the heat to die. And finally, a young man is held chained up in a cellar at the hands of an unknown possessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ira Levin|title=Rosemary's BabyWhite Spaces
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Ever since In 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 untimely death opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his sisterparents. However, Shaun Mason has been alive, but not much more so than Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the zombies that populate confines of his post-apocalyptic worldpast and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. For Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the man who built party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a career menacing presence waits to prey on poking dead things with a sticktheir darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, just he will have to face his demons once and for laughsall, life's just no fun anymoreor risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498998</amazonuk>1789097835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim NewmanAmanda Mason|title=Anno DraculaThe Hiding Place
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=The story begins in London. It is 1888 and Queen Victoria is on the throne. She has recently remarriedNeeding an escape from their turbulent life, taking as Nell Galilee takes her husband the infamous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula's influence is all around London as more and more of its citizens turn willingly stepdaughter to vampirismWhitby, whilst others resist its temptations. A distinct sense of social and political unrest is in the air as factions speak out against where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the race name of vampires, somehow spurred on by the serial killer at largeElder House. Known at first as She hopes that it will be the Silver Knife, but later as Jack the Ripper, this killer targets young vampire women in Whitechapel, prostitutes who have recently turned perfect place to vampirism, known as new-bornssort things out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857680838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We pick up exactly where we left off in this second book in David GatwardBut there's something not quite right about Elder House. The Dead series. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice), been to the world of the Dead (don't ask), become a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen atmosphere is unsettling and off), – and has gone some way before long Nell starts to locating his father (prisoner of the Dark suspect that she and seriously not having a good time of it). Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a mission. her family aren't alone there…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>1838771964}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson8409290103|title=EpitaphIf Only|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=To state 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 obvious, all of us are afraid of different thingsyoung man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Gina, Patrick sent the money regularly and a woman having an affair in cheap hotels, is scared correspondence - of getting caughtsorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Paul It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, mid-30s and in advertising, sees the redundancy notice it was that hedidn's just been handed as prelude t care to have him in this country where he might be a nightmarish future. And Laura, 8, can find the underpass from school danger to home, his wife and echoing footsteps within it, too spookyother children. The nastiest thing about this book is that for all these characters, they're forced beyond these horrors, alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to find something even more frighteningget the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497649</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Stross1787301435|title=The Fuller MemorandumDark Waters|author=G R Halliday
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Our world is not as it seems. We share it with aliens, zombies, demonic spirits, with ancient godTwenty-two-year-like entities that are all keen old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to eat our bodies and devour our soulsdrive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It's lucky, then, that we have was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the British secret service car to protect us, more specifically a top secret branch its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the secret service called The Laundrysteering wheel and hit a tree. This organisation is so secret that even When she came round after the bosses at MI6 donaccident she couldn't know of its existencework out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. The point of She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although the Laundry is realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to keep all the myriad of terrors endangering the Earth at bay by the careful use of science, technology and magic, magic being have her father buy her a little known branch of applied mathspale blue BMW M4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497703</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonGrady Hendrix|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through TimeThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=45|genre=TeensHorror|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick of a book: Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the prospect of settling down for hours powerful man and hours of reading pleasure let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is very tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fans, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety ode to the mixstrong selfless housewife. It's absolutely ideal for Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a holiday readpredatory male vampire who moves in to their quiet cul de sac.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>1683691431
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Masello1529009677|title=Blood and IceA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=Journalist Michael Wilde cannot pass Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just the opportunity usual growing apart after more than a decade of spending some time at a research station in Antarcticamarriage. His girlfriend is Their son, Michael, was killed in what could be a permanent coma following a trip that they both made together car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and he needs at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to get away. Expecting to see some amazing sights, he is not disappointeddrive. What Not only did he was not expecting, however, was to find a block of ice during a diving expedition in which kill himself when the bodies of a man car rammed into a womantree, perfectly preservedbut he also killed his girlfriend, were chained togetherfifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. By their side were several bottles Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of what appeared shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants to be wineforgive Michael. However To give some space, once Tom's moved out of the bodies are brought family home, but stresses to the surface and defrosthis thirteen-year-old daughter, strange things start to happen and before longHolly, everyone at the research station that it is fighting for their livesonly a trial separation. Will Michael ever manage to return home safely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you can say ''the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, Struan Murray and/or lead to the same story being published in many different guises. Here, then, on its way to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennet, the feisty young woman trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until the hidden truths open up to her, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Golden Manuel Sumberac (Editorillustrator)|title=Zombie: An Anthology Orphans of the UndeadTide
|rating=5
|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Anyone In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who enjoys has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a good horror story and likes zombie films will love this book, which mysterious boy is a collection pulled from the corpse of nineteen short stories by a variety of authors. I have whale, the citizens immediately believe him to admit that I have only heard of one of be the authors before Vessel - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]]all except for young Ellie Lancaster, who writes a girl inventor. As the [[The Naming of ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - but I am not an avid reader of the genre and don't doubt that the authors will be known to readers more familiar with even if itmeans revealing her deepest, darkest secrets.. Despite this unfamiliarity, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the stories, with just one or two seemingly not up to scratch.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>0241384435
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Jackson Bennett1789090873|title=Mr ShiversDread Nation|author=Justina Ireland
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Marcus Connelly, a quiet, reserved and private man, has recently joined the mass of humanity travelling west in search of work. It's the Midwest in the 1930s and the Great Depression is in full swing. The dustbowl is a desperate place and there's none more desperate than Connelly. But Connelly doesn't need a job and he has a wife and a home. Connelly isn't missing prosperity; he's missing his daughter, and he's in search of Two days after I was born … the man who killed her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Huston |title=My Dead Body (Joe Pitt Casebook)|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Joe Pitt's New York is one riddled with Vampyres, infected by a Vyrus that makes them drink blood and die in the sun. It is also a wasteland of lawless tribes of Vampyres, gang warfare carving dead rose up Manhattan into territories, each with their own leaders, specialist workers, fighters, animosities. As we start book five, Joe's New York is actually a subterranean one, as he hides from everyone in the sewers and tunnels, until the enterprise of a top dog character flushes him out, and tells Pitt started to find his daughter - a messianic poster girl for the future of the city.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496820</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley Jackson|title=The Haunting of Hill House|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=There was walk on a time before Stephen King. There was time before ''The Shining''. There was a time when 'horror' was not rooted battlefield in blood, guts and gore. I owe a slight apology to Mr King, because along with the gutsier side of the genre, I will own that he is a master at suspense.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191449</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=F G Cottam|title=The Magdalena Curse|rating=2.5|genre=Horror|summary=Mark Hunter is the sort of father who would do anything for his son. After losing his wife and daughter small town in a tragic accident, his surviving son Adam has become his whole world. And Adam is an exceptional child – beautiful, incredibly smart and mature beyond his ten years – only recently hePennsylvania called Gettysburg ''s been channelling the voices of the dead. Plagued by horrific dreams, able to speak Russian in the hours after he wakes, drawing occult symbols when he doodles, Hunter believes Adam to be possessed. Doctor Elizabeth Bancroft is sceptical, until she meets Adam, and witnesses the horrors the poor boy endures for herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980982</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly1471407764|title=Tales of Death and DementiaThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=A man gets viciously beaten up by unknown assailants Martha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a North London street. Only afterwards do we discover anything about him - he is a teachertree, she wakes with a dead daughterdisturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, an estranged wifesecrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and after the assault a new-found urge knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to fleeher grandmother, and to move on Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to something give and somewhere new. stumbles into a Meanwhile, in rural Buckinghamshire, odd things are happening. People are brutally killing and displaying animals, while unconnected teenagers with both long-term aims and immediate intentions, are suddenly and flippantly killing themselvesworld of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497657</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie Huston1788950720|title=Every Last Drop Whiteout (Joe PittRed Eye)|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Joe Pitt is a heavy-drinking, chain-smoking, superhuman Vampyre. A rogue in a secret world of violence and bloodlust set in the heart of The Bronx. Away from the steady infrastructure of American society, the various Vampyre clans have found the perfect place to hide themselves away from the 'Van Helsings' of their world. The clans, each with their own agenda, have claimed a piece of The Bronx as their territory and over the years have established themselves well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496812</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carrie Ryan|title=The Forest of Hands and TeethGabriel Dylan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Mary has lived her whole life in a village in the middle of the Forest of Hands and Teeth, protected from the Unconsecrated by a fence. Life in the village is simple if Are you follow the rules – obey the Sisterhood up for they know besta sleepless night or two? If so, preserve the next generation by marrying and having children and stay away from the fence. read on!
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|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Spooky, sprawling house out in We never know the sticks – checkman's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. RelocatedIt's what his mother used to call him, youngnot least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, childless, vulnerable couple – checkif not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Slow drip-drip of the odd to chill the male of the couple while she Housework is away in a working assignment – checkforeign country. Slow drip-drip When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of the odd years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to chill the reader? haunt Boyo. Well, given patience, yes, somewhatShe wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751541710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson1538761858|title=Body CountThe Anomaly|author=Michael Rutger|rating=45
|genre=Horror
|summary=There is a certain edge to Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the prologue intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to this latest Shaun Hutson(spoilers) actually find one. Is it a futuristic slasherImagine if, or a sci-fi slasherinstead of being scared by their own acting, an otherworldly fantasy slasher? You'll see Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the connection among my suggestions – starting point of this is a Shaun Hutson book, after all, and we can expect no let-up . Deep in a cave within the gore Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and carnage over conspiracy thrown into the few hundred pages to followblend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Holt1683690122|title=The Devouring|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Reggie, a fifteen year old girl who cannot quite come to terms with her younger brother Henry's behaviour. Is it down to her awakening at last to boys and driving lessons? Is it that, due to an easily diverted father and a mother who left the household months ago, she is fed up with being a free babysitter? Or is the real reason more akin to what is in a scratchy journal she finds due to her working in an occult bookshop? Is Henry in fact only going to dark and disagreeable places and moods due to possession by a Vour, a devilish entity that thrives on developing then dining on fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141325267</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWe Sold Our Souls|author=Jennifer Rardin|title=Bitten to Death (Jaz Parks)Grady Hendrix|rating=45
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|summary=''Slash'' – the sound The night manager of vampires lashing out at each other – a noise Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and activity youunhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90'll have s Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to get used to when reading this book and the three prequels. Vayl is obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a vampire working on behalf of humankindsolo career, despatching the nastier side of the undead rocketing to stardom as and when required. ''CrunchKoffin'' – the past colliding with the present in this latest mission, as Vayl and his human counterpart Jaz encounter . When a Grecian troupe shocking act of vampires, about violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to be taken over it would appear by the baddy of baddies, Samos. Jaz a past she has tried to face up forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the fact band. In a journey that Vayl has will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a history with this band of vamps. Which is nothing compared hellish music festival, she's determined to face the present he man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and a certain female among them are threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to share.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497088</amazonuk>defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurell K Hamilton ETDWB|title=Blood Noir (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)|rating=Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3.5 |genre=Horror|summary=of Tell Me When I don't think all this can be blamed on Mr Bram Stoker. Of course there is a sexual element to the exchange of bodily fluids of his Dracula and his victims, but this has become too much in this example of what can only now be loosely termed vampire horror. Anita Blake, US Marshall with distinction in killing unwanted undead, due to some part-supernatural skills of her own, lives with at least one regular sexual partner, Nathaniel, but takes herself off with Jason, an occasional lover and full-time werewolf, to help him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149691X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewm Dead|author=Chris Blythe and Steven Parkhouse |title=Angel FireRamirez
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|summary=Things aren’t getting better for Jaz Parks, In the third and her gang final part of undeadthe ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, near-dead Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and just plain odd hunter-killersretribution. The uberbaddy prevalent throughout With the series seems to have got a new dogsbodyevents of book two still weighing heavily on Dave, The Wizard he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – one who is able to bring a young escapee from the reavers – soul-eating nasties – back to life as zombie versions that are even harder to killsecret testing facility. A trip As events come to hell (or a dream resembling that) has brought suggestions from Mum that things aren’t going to be getting betterclimax, or easierand Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, and tells the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of jobs unfinished. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496405</amazonuk>world will he have left?
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