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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lloyd JonesRichard Kadrey|title=The String DiariesPale House Devil|rating=54|genre=FantasyHorror|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and husband Nate while the life blood slowly seeps out other is undead, and so one of himthem kills the living, and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). They run 're on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to escape the evil West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' that has relentlessly haunted Hannahappears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family for generationshistory, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Harrison|title=Bad Dolls|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horror. Some people see it as I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a Hungarian legend but boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the Wildes itpoint that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn's real t have those jump scares, and insatiable and wonI didn't forget them. have to read it during daylight hours only! They know what to do: verify everyoneBut it is creepy, trust no one andI found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, if living normal lives, and that at least in any doubtpart, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, RUN! Although one day that may not be enoughgoing to a hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>1803363932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Joe HillChuck Tingle|title=NOS-4R2Camp Damascus|rating=3.5

|summary=Vic McQueen has 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 talent for finding thingscrime and, in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Her little Raleigh bicycle can take her over Although it is both a seemingly demolished bridge near her home secular and takes her a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to places where lost items have come outshow the reader the horror lurking within.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4. Over the years, 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has built up stories found herself somewhat surprisingly in her head as love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to how she found these itemsNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but as Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she gets older, doesn't know whether she becomes more 's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and more unable the trip will be an excellent opportunity to find herselfget to know him a bit better. One dayMeanwhile, she takes her bridge to a place where she finds Charles Talent Manx III, a man Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has a similar talent, but uses it dementia. It's going to take children out of the worldbe good, rather than bringing lost things back into isn't it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575130679</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Chris WoodingEric LaRocca|title=SilverThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=TeensHorror|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'Silver' has , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a large ant with silver circuits on the coverghost, it usually something tangible and while there are no actual ants in this book, by the illustration is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on end of the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpsesstory, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machinesbeatable. They possess a swarm intelligence similar to antsEric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. This sounds far fetched but It is a great deal collection of progress has been made in research currently being conducted with just this in mind - to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon well known short stories more interested in the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism is capable horrors of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mind. It would be impossible for scientists to control hundreds or thousands of nanobots independently - so the idea is to control a few illness, grief and have these control the resthumiliation. Of course there would always be safeguards on this type of technology Horrors that linger and there were safeguards in the book as well - they just didnare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''t work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=OkBut of course, he knows why. I'm Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to do this for all books in this series except the first onea retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Before we begin. If you haven't read Recently returning to join the first book community in this serieshis old neighbourhood, DONhe knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadn'T read t imagined it exploding into this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review of the first book, read the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorry..new life in quite such a violent fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lily HerneChristopher Golden|title=DeadlandsRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=I was hesitant to choose this bookThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. I love Stretching for over a good dystopian future bookthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. The problem is 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 huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't define think google streetview updates it very many of them as goodoften. I have read far Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many zombie books people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that really don't offer anything differents a bit rich, plenty for one of bloodour main characters, goreFelix 'Teig' Teigland, and damsels in distressis a film-maker, but not enough character developmentdoing a recce with his cameraman buddy, or logical thoughtJohn Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Psychological horror can be ever They pick up their oh-so much more chilling than blood and guts-chatty local guide, but it is also much more difficult to pull off. Sarah and Savannah Lotzgain the company of a local beauty, the mother and daughter team who have written this book under fetch up at the pen name Lily Herne, have managed guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to do this perfectly.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyAlly Wilkes|title=Through Dead EyesAll the White Spaces

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=After In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an unfortunate episode at schoolArctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, Alex has joined his father on this adventure represents a chance for a business trip to Amsterdam. He had been hoping fresh start, and the opportunity to spend some time with live life as his fatherauthentic self and true gender, but instead he is palmed off on Angelien, daughter without the disapproval and constraints of his father's new girlfriendparents. But Angelien is pretty and so Alex is quite happy to be shown around by her. When her boyfriend Dirk However, Jonathan isn't aroundthe only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, that is. At an antique marketmistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, Alex finds himself drawn a menacing presence waits to an ancient-looking maskprey on their darkness. He can't help but buy If Jonathan is to make it. And out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once boughtand for all, he can't help but put it onor risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shaun HutsonAmanda Mason|title=The Revenge of FrankensteinHiding Place|rating=43.5

|summary=Imprisoned Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and sentenced stepdaughter to death for the crimes he feels were caused Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by his creation and not his drive to bend the reach and morals name of medical science, Doctor Frankenstein is given a way Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out of the guillotine. But there's grasp, something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and gains a loyal adherent in the misshapen form of Carl. They move on before long Nell starts to work together at a charitable hospital, which serves merely as a front for the Doctorsuspect that she and her family aren's usual experimentst alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, transplanting body organscotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, reviving corpses or bits thereofMr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and bringing new forms of life thereafter Patrick was to the worldsend him a monthly allowance. Cue yet another problematic creation, with an unfortunate way of leaving Patrick sent the money regularly and a trail correspondence - of violence and vehemencesorts - 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, but with another innocent female it was that he didn't care to tender have him, in this respectful country where he might be a danger to his wife and intelligent sequelother children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556235</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Fukuda1787301435|title=The PreyDark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them on the boat left by the Scientists, Gene, Sissy and the boys make their way Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the river private road in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and arrive at she could push the Missioncar to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. Food is abundant, When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the place is peaceful, steering wheel and the Elders promise them hit a trip on the next train to Civilisationtree. Gene and Sissy can hardly believe it. But it's soon apparent that When she came round after the Mission is not all it seems and Gene begins to wonder if they havenaccident she couldn't simply exchanged one hellhole for another. Although they find work out a great deal more about the Scientist - he developed the Originwhere she was, but it obviously wasn't a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans is as frustrating as everconventional hospital. And with She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although the vampires coming ever closer, even realisation wouldn't be obvious to the Mission itself, and the Elders making moves of their own, her for a long time is running out and Gene and Sissy must decide what . She'd made it when she chose to do..have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>

Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which is interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changing world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Booth1471407764|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryTwisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=3.5

|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely heroMartha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, given his occupation as she wakes with a seller of second hand booksdisturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, but he has some illustrious connections, not least to Sir Frederick Appleby. Some say that ''he'' runs secrets tumble from the country and Appleby's deputyweave, Peter Tyndale is married to Debrettrevealing insights she doesn's sistert really want, Celia. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadnknowledge she doesn't elicited a single cry of grief from a relative, but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett understand. She flees to attend the funeral in France of a former business partner, Arthur Moreau. There are, apparentlyher grandmother, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite DebrettMormor's estrangement from the deceased over recent years he's thought cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to be the person best able to obtain the answersgive and stumbles into a world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-B Underground |rating=4Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains.5|genre=Teens|summary=OkHe's not having much fun. Before we beginA miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. If Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you haven't read the [[Zomre staying in a ski resort -B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, DON'T read and this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review is what brings him into contact with one of the first bookski guides, read the first book itself, then come backHanna. If you donHanna herself doesn't, you'll be sorryhave the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham McNamee9386897385|title=BeyondNothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Teenager JaneWe never know the man's life so far has been plagued by near-fatal accidentsname but let's call him ''Boyo''. The last one left a nail embedded in her brain and the doctors say surgery is too dangerous. And she sleepwalks at night It's what his mother used to call him, walking alone in a daze up the highwaynot least because he found it annoying. As you can imagine When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, Janeif not ''living's parents are beyond worried about her. But they don't know the worst of as most people would understand it. Only Lexi, Jane's best friend She spends her days watching daytime television and fellow Creep Sister, doesdrinking. The truth Housework is that Janea foreign country. When she dies she's shadow is trying not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to kill her. Literallyhaunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has no control over it but it has control of herin mind is that he could be a famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491278X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Herbert1538761858|title=AshThe Anomaly|author=Michael Rutger|rating=45

|summary=There are strange goings on at Comraich CastleTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, with for the Youtube era. Join the normal poltergeist type activities intrepid (if rather inept) team of cold spots in rooms and the lights inexplicably dimming having escalated into a resident being found pinned internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to the wall (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of his room being scared by his their own blood acting, Derek Acorah and innardsYvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. David Ash is sent Deep in to investigate, but he is warned that he must work alone and a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in secrecy, as whilst some a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the residents of Comraich Castle are not ghosts, they are considered long dead by the outside world and that world must never know of their continued existenceblend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706959</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cherie Priest1683690122|title=Eden Moore – Not Flesh Nor FeathersWe Sold Our Souls|author=Grady Hendrix

|summary=A year has passed since medium Eden Moore's brush with the [[Eden Moore - Wings to the Kingdom by Cherie Priest|ghostly battlefields]] and she's certainly come The night manager of a long way since the [[Eden Moore – Four Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest|first time]] we encountered unhappy. Few know of her. Shepast as guitarist of 90's learnt Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a lot from media celebrity Dana Marshallband once tipped for greatness, is nearly 25 and has decided it's time but destined to move out of Aunt Lu and Uncle David's place. She even has her eye obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on an apartment in a downtown block by the river. Howeversolo career, some things donrocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''t change. The Read House When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is being renovated forced to look back to combine a hotel past she has tried to forget – and Starbucks but one room remains untouched due to paranormal activitya deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the band. EdenIn a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, she's TV journalist friend Nick calls her in determined to communicate with face the ghost, a young girl man who isn't satisfied ruined her life. But with scary noises dark forces rising and shifting ornaments. Within moments of entering Eden is trapped as the phantom attempts threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to tear her limb from limb mumbling about how 'they' are coming for her. Who are 'they'? Why are people disappearing near defeat the riverodds? Chattanooga Or will soon find out as it's about to flood and in Hell truly be unleashed on the mud something stirs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687743</amazonuk>Earth…?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillETDWB|title=Even The Man in the PictureDead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=4.5

|summary=There is a theory regarding ghosts that they are projected recordings from In the very brickwork third and final part of buildings – that the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'stone tapes' can replay scenes or characters series, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the events of heightened emotion so that people can see book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the vestige of what went beforesecret testing facility. What if something As events come to a bit more animated than climax, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a building – a lively, realistic oil painting – can also convey collected recorded instances group of such strong feelings - feelings such as mortal terror? It would be like Dorian Gray's portraitscientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, recording all the horrors, keeping them intact in one place stakes are higher than ever before – but would will Dave make it be the cause or the effectout of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillDIAYG|title=DollyDead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez

|summary=An empty house Still battling the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the remote fenlands of England, Black Dragon Security team show up to rescue him and his wife Holly. But things only get worse – with a man returning to it alone… a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]'s namethe virus mutating, and the subtitle 'a ghost story' on infected getting smarter. When Dave discovers the cover… We do seem to be in truth behind the territory contagion it will drive him past all limits of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], faith or reason – but worry not – will he be able to manage to deal with this new short genre novel is a very different beast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him?

{{newreview|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir|title=I Remember You|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Too often, people – such as myself – refer Move on to a book as being a rollercoaster read, mostly down to a simply topsy-turvy plot. But this is the true embodiment of a white-knuckle ride. It has the anxiety of the queue as we watch three people – a couple and another young woman – get ferried across the fjord to one of western Iceland's most remote outposts, with the aim being to renovate an old building as a guesthouse. There's the crunch of the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find that something very malevolent is hiding in the tiny settlement. And just as the car starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbs-up from those leaving the ride, telling us all is well and all survived.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Humour Reviews]]