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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]==Horror==__NOTOC__{{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!-- Remove -->1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ira LevinRichard Kadrey|title=Rosemary's BabyThe Pale House Devil

|summary='John Dies at Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the End' begins with friends John book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and Dave going to a party the other is undead, and meeting a Jamaican drug dealer who provides John with a hit so one of something called 'soy sauce'them kills the living, and the other kills the undead. Thereafter (Only not each other, John starts to see things that others canobviously). They't see. Dave thinks he has had re on a bad reaction job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to the drug until he accidentally takes West coast to try to lay low for a hit while and also starts find some other work to have strange experiences, seeing odd shadow creatures, none of whom are very friendlykeep them going. Even worse, people start But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' that appears to die and be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a dog takes on human characteristics. Before longwhole lot of family history, John and Dave are facing death on a regular basis and are aware terrifyingly powerful creature that they have access to dimensions that normal people don't know about.ve never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857684833</amazonuk>1803363894

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mira GrantRachel Harrison|title=Newsflesh Trilogy: DeadlineBad Dolls|rating=54|genre=HorrorShort Stories|summary=Ever It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the untimely death point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of his sisterthe vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, Shaun Mason has been aliveand I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, but not much more so than and I found most of that feeling came from the zombies fact that populate his post-apocalyptic world. For these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the man who built horrors arises from very normal situations such as a career on poking dead things with breakup, trying a sticknew dieting app, just for laughs, life's just no fun anymoregoing to a hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498998</amazonuk>1803363932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Kim NewmanChuck Tingle|title=Anno DraculaCamp Damascus

|summary=The story begins in LondonLove is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. It Gay conversion therapy is 1888 and Queen Victoria is on the throneongoing. She has recently remarried, taking as her husband the infamous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula's influence is all around London as more The UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime and more of its citizens turn willingly to vampirism, whilst others resist its temptations. A distinct sense of social and political unrest is in the air as factions speak out against the race of vampiresUS, somehow spurred on by the serial killer at largenearly 700 000 adults have received it. Known at first as the Silver KnifeAlthough it is both a secular and a religious prejudice, but later as Jack the RipperChuck Tingle, this killer targets young vampire women in Whitechapelhis new horror, prostitutes who have recently turned to vampirism, known as new-borns. |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 Gatward's The Dead series. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice)'Camp Damascus'', been to peels back the world skin of Christian ''pray the Dead (dongay away't ask), become a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen off), and has gone some way camps to locating his father (prisoner of show the reader the Dark and seriously not having a good time of it). Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a missionhorror lurking within. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson1529382823|title=EpitaphThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=To state the obvious, all of us are afraid of different thingsCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Gina, They're off on a woman having an affair in cheap hotels, is scared of getting caughtcruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. PaulCaz's sister, midGemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-30s shaped bulge in his suit pocket and in advertising, sees the redundancy notice heshe doesn't know whether she's just relieved or disappointed. They've not been handed as prelude a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a nightmarish futurebit better. And LauraMeanwhile, 8, can find the underpass from school to home, and echoing footsteps within it, too spookyGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. The nastiest thing about this book is that for all these charactersIt's going to be good, theyisn're forced beyond these horrors, to find something even more frightening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497649</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Charles StrossEric LaRocca|title=The Fuller MemorandumTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=Science FictionHorror|summary=Our world Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is not used as it seems. We share it with aliens, zombies, demonic spirits, with ancient god-like entities that are all keen a way to eat reflect our bodies darkest emotions and devour our soulshow we as humans react and process them. ItMost horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''s lucky, then, whether that we have the British secret service to protect usis a home invader, more specifically a top secret branch monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the secret service called story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Laundry. This organisation Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is so secret not like that even the bosses at MI6 don't know of its existence. The point of the Laundry It is to keep all the myriad a collection of terrors endangering the Earth at bay by short stories more interested in the careful use horrors of scienceillness, technology grief and magic, magic being a little known branch of applied mathshumiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497703</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonB0BHR8KWSK|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through Time|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick of a book: the prospect of settling down for hours and hours of reading pleasure is very tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fans, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety to the mix. It's absolutely ideal for a holiday read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDukkha|author=Robert Masello|title=Blood and IceMartin Hyde

|summary=Journalist Michael Wilde cannot pass the opportunity of spending some time at Sam wakes up chained in a research station in Antarcticabasement. His girlfriend is in what could be a permanent coma following a trip that they both made together He rails against his captor and he needs to get away. Expecting to see some amazing sights, he is not disappointed. What he was not expecting, however, was to find a block of ice during a diving expedition in which the bodies injustice of a man a woman, perfectly preserved, were chained together. By their side were several bottles of what appeared to be wine. However, once the bodies are brought to the surface and defrost, strange things start to happen and before long, everyone at the research station is fighting for their lives. Will Michael ever manage to return home safelyhis imprisonment? Why? ''Why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523876</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Jane AustenBut of course, Seth Grahame-Smith he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and Tony Lee|title=Pride dirty life by going to a retreat and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that emerging as a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie storyneophyte Buddhist monk. Before you can say ''the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, and/or lead Recently returning to join the same story being published community in many different guises. Here, then, on its way to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennethis old neighbourhood, the feisty young woman trying he knew his past would be hard to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the escape but he hadn''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 t imagined it exploding into this time it’s new life in graphic novel formquite such a violent fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|title=Zombie: An Anthology Road of the UndeadBones|rating=3.5

|summary=Anyone who enjoys The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a good horror story and likes zombie films will love this bookthousand miles across Siberia, which is it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a collection spread of nineteen short stories by sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a variety huge blodge of authorsunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I have don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to admit 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 I have only heard of 's a bit rich, for one of the authors before our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film- [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]]maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who writes 's mostly there to encourage the [[The Naming project to fruition to claw back some of the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - but I am not an avid reader of funds he'd invested in the genre and donpair't doubt that the authors will be known to readers more familiar with its prior TV projects. Despite this unfamiliarity They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, I thoroughly enjoyed most gain the company of the storiesa local beauty, with just one or two seemingly not and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to scratch.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Jackson BennettAlly Wilkes|title=Mr ShiversAll the White Spaces|rating=54

|summary=Marcus ConnellyIn 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 quietfresh start, reserved and private manthe opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, has recently joined without the mass disapproval and constraints of humanity travelling west in search of workhis parents. ItHowever, Jonathan isn's t the Midwest in only one fleeing the 1930s confines of his past and the Great Depression is in full swingshadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. The dustbowl is a desperate place Guilt, mistrust and there's none more desperate than Connelly. But Connelly doesn't need a job grief stalk the party and he has a wife , when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a homemenacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. Connelly isn't missing prosperity; If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he's missing will have to face his daughterdemons once and for all, and he's in search of or risk making the man who killed herbarren, icy landscape his tomb. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498572</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie Huston Amanda Mason|title=My Dead Body (Joe Pitt Casebook)The Hiding Place|rating=43.5

|summary=Joe PittNeeding an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's New York something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and 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|summary=Twenty-one riddled with Vampyres-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, infected by a Vyrus cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that makes them drink blood the young man got on board the boat and die in the sunthereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. It is also Patrick sent the money regularly and a wasteland correspondence - of lawless tribes of Vampyres, gang warfare carving sorts - sprang up Manhattan into territories, each with their own leaders, specialist workers, fighters, animositiesbetween the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. As we start book five, Joe It wasn't that Lowry senior didn's New York is actually a subterranean onet care for his son, as it was that he hides from everyone didn't care to have him in the sewers and tunnels, until the enterprise of this country where he might be a top dog character flushes him out, danger to his wife and tells Pitt other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to find get the young man on his daughter - a messianic poster girl for the future of the cityway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496820</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley Jackson1787301435|title=The Haunting of Hill HouseDark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=There Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It was a time before Stephen Kinglong road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a tree. There When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was time before , but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'The Shiningd made her first mistake some time ago, although the realisation wouldn''. There was t be obvious to her for a long time when 'horror' was not rooted in blood, guts and gore. I owe a slight apology She'd made it when she chose to Mr King, because along with the gutsier side of the genre, I will own that he is have her father buy her a master at suspensepale blue BMW M4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191449</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=F G CottamGrady Hendrix|title=The Magdalena CurseSouthern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=2.5|genre=Horror|summary=Mark Hunter is Women, by and large, have always been the sort of father subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who would do anything for his son. After losing his wife occasionally help hold up the powerful man and daughter let nothing stand in a tragic accident, his surviving son Adam has become his whole worldway. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. And Adam It is an exceptional child – beautiful, incredibly smart ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves in to their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529009677|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and mature beyond his ten years – only recently hewife Rachel are having problems. It's been channelling not just the voices usual growing apart after more than a decade of the deadmarriage. Plagued by horrific dreams Their son, Michael, able was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to speak Russian in drive. Not only did he kill himself when the hours after he wakescar rammed into a tree, drawing occult symbols when but he doodlesalso killed his girlfriend, Hunter believes Adam to be possessedfifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Doctor Elizabeth Bancroft Rachel is scepticalbroken, until but she meets Adamwants to forgive Michael. To give some space, and witnesses Tom's moved out of the horrors the poor boy endures for herselffamily home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980982</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Tales Orphans of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthTide|rating=4.5

|summary=Young Robert is put In the last city on a train back Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to school by his stepmother. It's wreak havoc on the first journey he's made on his ownlast of humanity. It turns out to be more of When a challenge than he could ever have imagined. The train stalls at mysterious boy is pulled from the mouth corpse of a tunnel and while whale, the other passengers sleep through citizens immediately believe him to be the waitVessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - stories with a differenceeven if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>0241384435

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly1789090873|title=Tales of Death and DementiaDread Nation|author=Justina Ireland

|summary=A man gets viciously beaten up by unknown assailants in a North London street. Only afterwards do we discover anything about him - he is a teacher, with a dead daughter, an estranged wife, and ''Two days after I was born … the assault a new-found urge to flee, dead rose up and started to move walk on to something and somewhere new. Meanwhile, a battlefield in a small town 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 themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497657</amazonuk>}}Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''

{{newreview|author=Charlie Huston|title=Every Last Drop (Joe Pitt)|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Joe Pitt is a heavy-drinking, chain-smoking, superhuman Vampyre. A rogue in a secret world Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of violence and bloodlust set in Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the heart of The Bronxstreets. Away from An event which is interrupting the steady infrastructure of civil war between the states altered American societyhistory forever. In the changing world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the various Vampyre clans have found the perfect place new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to hide themselves away from destroy the 'Van Helsings' of their worlddead once and for all. The clansFor Jane and other girls like her, each with their own agenda, have claimed there is however the opportunity for a piece of The Bronx better life by being employed as their territory an attendant. With deadly capabilities and over the years have established themselves wellperfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496812</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carrie Ryan1471407764|title=The Forest of Hands and TeethTwisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=4.5

|summary=Mary Martha's world has lived her whole life changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a village in the middle of the Forest of Hands and Teethtree, protected from the Unconsecrated by she wakes with a fencedisturbing gift. Life in the village is simple if you follow the rules – obey the Sisterhood for they know bestShe can read people through their clothes, preserve the next generation by marrying and having children and stay away secrets tumble from the fence.  Then Maryweave, revealing insights she doesn's mother is bitten when t really want, and knowledge she strays too close to the fence, looking for her husband who was lost some months agodoesn't understand. The Guardians want She flees to kill her before she turns and becomes Unconsecratedgrandmother, but MaryMormor's mother chooses cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to live give and join her husband in the Forest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575090847</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Gaiman|title=Coraline|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Coraline has just moved to a new flat in a huge converted old house. It's the summer holidays, but her parents both work from home but are busy, so operate a general policy of benign neglect. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible on the ground floor offer Coraline the odd cup of tea - and read its leaves to boot. The crazy old man upstairs is busy training stumbles into a mouse circus. There's plenty world of scope for exploring in the grounds, and so that's what Coraline does, just as Alice did before she found Wonderlandmenace. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597308</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Rardin1788950720|title=One More Bite Whiteout (Jaz ParksRed Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan

|summary=''You are in the business of ghost releaseAre you up for a sleepless night or two?''If so, read on!

Well, when that Charlie is asked of on a vampire CIA assassin who school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has lived through untold horrors given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and seen innumerable deaths, and Jaz Sparks, his spunky humanhe's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself -but-getting-less-sonot always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort -and this is what brings him into contact with-every-book colleague-turned-loverone of the ski guides, it only comes down as Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and this forms a major understatementconnection between them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497096</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Ransom9386897385|title=The Birthing House Nothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson1538761858|title=Body CountThe Anomaly|author=Michael Rutger|rating=45

|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>

 {{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

|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…?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurell K Hamilton ETDWB|title=Blood Noir (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=34.5

|summary=In the third and final part of the ''Tell Me When I don't think all this can be blamed on Mr Bram Stoker. Of course there m Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is a sexual element headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the exchange events of bodily fluids of his Dracula book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and his victims, but this has become too much in this example of what can only now be loosely termed vampire horrorsaves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facility. Anita Blake, US Marshall with distinction in killing unwanted undead, due As events come to some part-supernatural skills of her own, lives with at least one regular sexual partner, Nathaniel, but takes herself off with Jasona climax, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an occasional lover ex-military sociopath and full-time werewolfa group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, to help him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149691X</amazonuk>the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Blythe and Steven Parkhouse DIAYG|title=Angel FireDead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez

|summary=Things aren’t getting better for Jaz ParksStill battling the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up to rescue him and her gang of undeadhis wife Holly. But things only get worse – with the virus mutating, near-dead and just plain odd hunter-killersthe infected getting smarter. The uberbaddy prevalent throughout When Dave discovers the truth behind the series seems to have got a new dogsbody, The Wizard contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – one who is but will he be able to bring the reavers – soul-eating nasties – back to life as zombie versions that are even harder manage to kill. A trip to hell (or a dream resembling that) has brought suggestions from Mum that things aren’t going deal with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to be getting better, or easier, and tells of jobs unfinished. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496405</amazonuk>him?

 {{newreview|author=Charlie Huston|title=Half the Blood of Brooklyn (Joe Pitt Novel)|genre=Horror|rating=3.5|summary=The scratchy maps at the start of the book show how the world of Brooklyn and Manhattan has been separated into gang territories – gangs of Vampyres, the undead forced that way through some form of viral contagion. The Society, that Joe Pitt works for as a gopher, hard man and possibly just mule, able to be played like a puppet on a string, that have their world centred Move on Greenwich, are rebuffing an approach from the Docks, over the Brooklyn Bridge. This is easily done, with a few quick axe slashes, but no-one, not Pitt, not the moll of the gang, Lydia, and not even the head honcho, Terry, can predict just how volatile the whole of New York is becoming.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496804</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=Unmarked Graves|author=Shaun Hutson|genre=Horror|rating=4|summary=This horror book certainly raises questions. How can the author so successfully manage to tie in the initial threads into what boils down to a zombie novel?  A tall, charismatic African political leader (or terrorist, depending on whose side you're on) leaves the scene of a woman he has butchered to death in a gruesome little episode, and flees across the continent as any emigrant would. An emigrant with armed bodyguards willing to take any amount of bullets, that is.  |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149433X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Humour Reviews]]