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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{adsense2Frontpage|author=Richard Kadrey|title=The Pale House Devil|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Ford 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 couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and the other is undead, and so one of them kills the living, and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to the 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 appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894}}__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Men Stood TogetherRachel Harrison|authortitle=Chris PriestleyBad Dolls|rating=54|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=A young boy lives in a harbour town with his mother. It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a happy lifecouple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, but borrowing the books from a boy misses his father, a sailor who left I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for the sea a year ago and died far from home. He also dreams fear of the sea vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and of adventure. So when his uncle comes I didn't have to visitread it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, full and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories of faraway lands about women, living normal lives, and treasurethat at least in part, he is entranced. He ignores the warning horrors arises from the pilot's sonvery normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|isbn=1803363932}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck Tingle|title=Camp Damascus|rating=3. How could his uncle 5|genre=Horror|summary=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 crime and, in the devil? AndUS, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both a secular and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, despite in his mothernew horror, ''Camp Damascus''s tears, he follows his uncle peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to seashow the reader the horror lurking within. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=Dead BrigadeThe Last Passenger|author=James LovegroveWill Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyThrillers|summary=Sergeant Jonah HammondCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz's career ) is middle-aged and has been at a standstill found herself somewhat surprisingly in the years since he launched love with Pete. They're off on a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in the massacre of British soldierscruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Now Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that same officer Pete is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond wongoing to propose but Caz hasn't have to worry about some idiot getting spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his men all killed - because they are already deadsuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Hammond has They've not been given a couple for that long and the task of training trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a crack squad of reanimated soldiersbit better. Meanwhile, immune to pain, disease and capable of fighting with massive injuriesGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learning, following instructions, and meant It's going to be incapable of independent thought. Howevergood, it soon becomes apparent that things donisn't always go the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part of them is still human, still the soldier they once were, trapped within a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for the next mission. They have no life, nor do they have the luxury of death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>it?

 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Alexander Gordon SmithEric LaRocca|title=The Fury: The Director's CutTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novelHorror taps into something primeval within us. It isn't what I was expecting at allis used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. The official press release describes the Fury as Most horror fiction feature a ''a zombie book without zombiesBig Bad''. This book has several things in common with the zombie genre; , whether that is a group of survivorshome invader, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie bookmonster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, those affected by the fury are not end of the mindless living deadstory, beatable. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with one exceptionEric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. When they get near one It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apartillness, grief and everyone on the planet, other than a very small group is affectedhumiliation. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends Horrors that linger and total strangers will give up everything are harder to destroy them. After they have killed them, they will go back to their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least for nowdefeat than any ''Big Bad''. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice ThompsonB0BHR8KWSK|title=Burnt IslandDukkha|author=Martin Hyde

|summary=Max Long is Sam wakes up chained in a semi-successful author basement. He rails against his captor and has had seven novels publishedthe injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of course, none of which were bestsellershe knows why. Max Sam is unsatisfied with the critical an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and sales responses for his books and is determined dirty life by going to write a story that will rocket him to stardom retreat and the bestseller listemerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Burnt Island is a remote rocky outpost in the ocean that he believes will inspire him Recently returning to write a novel for join the masses. He lodges with another author on the island and although meaning to concentrate on community in his writing old neighbourhood, he is distracted by the people and the creepy atmosphere of the isle. Something is not at all what it seems on Burnt Island, knew his past would be hard to escape but is he hadn't imagined it of Max's creation or something that was already waiting for him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773487</amazonuk>exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashion.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lloyd JonesChristopher Golden|title=The String DiariesRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyHorror|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into The Kolyma Highway… the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while 'Road of Bones'… the life blood slowly seeps out of himR504. They run to escape Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannahworld's family for generationsmost notorious routes. Some people see For months of the year it as 's a Hungarian legend but to spread of sheet ice suspended above the Wildes permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring's real and insatiable and wonsees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't forget themthink google streetview updates it very often. They know what Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to do: verify everyonegive too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, trust no for one andof our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, if John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in any doubtthe pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, RUN! gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. Although one day And that may not be enough.'s where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe HillAlly Wilkes|title=NOS-4R2All the White Spaces|rating=54

|summary=Vic McQueen has In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a talent chance for finding things. Her little Raleigh bicycle can take her over a seemingly demolished bridge near her home fresh start, and takes her the opportunity to places where lost items have come out. Over the years, she has built up stories in her head live life as to how she found these itemshis authentic self and true gender, but as she gets olderwithout the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, she becomes more Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and more unable to find herselfthe shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. One dayGuilt, she takes her bridge mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to a place where she finds Charles Talent Manx IIIoverwinter on land, a man who has a similar talent, but uses menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it to take children out of the worldArctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, rather than bringing lost things back into iticy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575130679</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingAmanda Mason|title=SilverThe Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary='Silver' has a large ant with silver circuits on the coverNeeding an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and while there are no actual ants in this bookstepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the illustration is very well suitedname of Elder House. This books puts a unique twist on She hopes that it will be the ever popular zombie genreperfect place to sort things out. Instead of living corpses, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machinesBut there's something not quite right about Elder House. They possess a swarm intelligence similar The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to antssuspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4. This sounds far fetched but a great deal of progress has 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been made in research currently being conducted with just this in mind sent abroad by his father, cotton- broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a phenomenon well known in monthly allowance. Patrick sent the natural sciences in which money regularly and a less intelligent organism is capable correspondence - of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mindsorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It would be impossible wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for scientists his son, it was that he didn't care to control hundreds or thousands of nanobots independently - so the idea is have him in this country where he might be a danger to control a few his wife and have these control other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the rest. Of course there would always be safeguards young man on this type of technology and there were safeguards in the book as well - they just didn't workhis way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1787301435|title=ZOM-B AngelsDark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=OkTwenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrit. I'm going It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to do this for all books its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in this series except front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a tree. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first onemistake some time ago, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. Before we begin She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4. If you haven}}{{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club't read s Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= 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 first book powerful man and let nothing stand in this series, DONhis way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires''T read gives women their due. It is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this reviewby 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 his wife Rachel are having problems. It contains spoilers's not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Read my review of Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. Not only did he kill himself when the first bookcar rammed into a tree, read the first book itselfbut he also killed his girlfriend, then come backfifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. If you don Tom can'tthink about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, youTom'll be sorry..s moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lily HerneStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=DeadlandsOrphans of the Tide

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I was hesitant In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to choose this bookwreak havoc on the last of humanity. I love When a good dystopian future book. The problem mysterious boy is, I don't define very many pulled from the corpse of them as good. I have read far too many zombie books that really don't offer anything differenta whale, plenty of blood, gore, and damsels in distress, but not enough character development, or logical thought. Psychological horror can the citizens immediately believe him to be ever so much more chilling than blood and gutsthe Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, but it is also much more difficult to pull offa girl inventor. Sarah and Savannah Lotz, As the mother and daughter team who have written this book under ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the pen name Lily Herneboy, have managed to do this perfectlyEllie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>0241384435

{{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Through Dead Eyes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After an unfortunate episode at school, Alex has joined his father on a business trip Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to Amsterdamwalk the streets. He had been hoping to spend some time with his father, but instead he An event which is palmed off on Angelieninterrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changing world, daughter of his father's minorities are forced into conscription and under the new girlfriend. But Angelien is pretty Native and so Alex is quite happy Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to be shown around by herdestroy the dead once and for all. When For Jane and other girls like her boyfriend Dirk isn't around, that there is. At an antique market, Alex finds himself drawn to however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an ancient-looking maskattendant. He can't help but buy it. And once boughtWith deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, he can't help but put it onattendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson1471407764|title=The Revenge of FrankensteinTwisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=45

|summary=Imprisoned and sentenced to death for the crimes he feels were caused by his creation and not his drive to bend the reach and morals of medical scienceMartha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, Doctor Frankenstein is given she wakes with a way out of disturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the guillotineweave, revealing insights she doesn's graspt really want, and gains a loyal adherent in the misshapen form of Carlknowledge she doesn't understand. They move on She flees to work together at a charitable hospitalher grandmother, which serves merely as a front for the DoctorMormor's usual experiments, transplanting body organs, reviving corpses or bits thereofcabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give and bringing new forms of life to the stumbles into a world. Cue yet another problematic creation, with an unfortunate way of leaving a trail of violence and vehemence, but with another innocent female to tender him, in this respectful and intelligent sequelmenace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556235</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Andrew Fukuda|title=The Prey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them Charlie is on the boat left by the Scientistsa school trip, Gene, Sissy and skiing in the boys make their way down the river and arrive at the MissionAustrian mountains. He's not having much fun. Food is abundant, the place is peaceful, and the Elders promise them A miserable home life has given Charlie a trip on the next train to Civilisation. Gene bad attitude reputation and Sissy can hardly believe it. But ithe's soon apparent that the Mission is not all it seems and Gene begins a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to wonder do if they havenyou't simply exchanged one hellhole for another. Although they find out re staying in a great deal more about the Scientist ski resort - he developed the Origin, a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans and this is as frustrating as ever. And what brings him into contact with one of the vampires coming ever closerski guides, even to Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the Mission itself, happiest backstory and the Elders making moves of their own, time is running out and Gene and Sissy must decide what to do..this forms a connection between them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Booth9386897385|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryNothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon

|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely hero, given We never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his occupation as a seller of second hand books, but he has some illustrious connectionsmother used to call him, not least to Sir Frederick Applebybecause he found it annoying. Some say that When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''heliving'' runs the country as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and Appleby's deputy, Peter Tyndale drinking. Housework is married to Debretta foreign country. When she dies she's sisternot missed, Celia. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadnfirstly because she't elicited d spent a single cry couple of grief from years in a relativemental hospital, but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett mainly because her ghost continues to attend the funeral in France of a former business partner, Arthur Moreauhaunt Boyo. There are, apparently, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite Debrett's estrangement from the deceased over recent years She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he's thought to could be the person best able to obtain the answersa famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1538761858|title=Zom-B Underground |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Before we begin. If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, DON'T read 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Anomaly|author=Graham McNamee|title=BeyondMichael Rutger|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenager Jane's life so far has been plagued by near-fatal accidents. The last one left a nail embedded in her brain and the doctors say surgery is too dangerous. And she sleepwalks at night, walking alone in a daze up the highway. As you can imagine, Jane's parents are beyond worried about her. But they don't know the worst of it. Only Lexi, Jane's best friend and fellow Creep Sister, does. The truth is that Jane's shadow is trying to kill her. Literally. She has no control over it but it has control of her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491278X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Herbert|title=Ash|rating=4

|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?