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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Christopher Ransom|title=Beneath The Lake|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Mercer family are on the holiday of a lifetime at the somewhat remote Blundstone Lake in Nebraska. It is all the things a camping holiday should be; tranquillity and beautiful scenery in spades and lots of good old-fashioned family fun. When another family arrive, the Mercers try not to feel disappointed that their solitude has been encroached upon and do their best to keep out of the other family's way, but when the newcomers' family disharmony becomes violent and murderous, The Mercers have no option but to become rather more acquainted with them than they had bargained for. And so their lives are forever altered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555223</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark MorrisRichard Kadrey|title=The Society of Blood (Obsidian Heart book 2)Pale House Devil

|summary=In order to find his kidnapped daughter Alex Locke still needs to find Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the Obsidian Heart. book was as a couple of strange detectives! The trail leads back from 21st century gangland London to One of them is living, you see, and the darkother is undead, dirty 19th century version and so one of them kills the capitalliving, and the other kills the undead. Here the streets (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a job in New York that witnessed Jack goes badly, and so they head out to the Ripper's murders only West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them going. But when a couple of years before are just as lethal but young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the danger isn't totally human. Alex doesnsomething't quite know how youthat appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman'd classify its house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, but it stands between him and the person who means the most to him so walking away isna terrifyingly powerful creature that they't an option.ve never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168709</amazonuk>1803363894

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Rachel Harrison|title=The UndesiredBad Dolls

|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=If youIt're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell you, even in this day and age, that the place is heavily populated with trollss been some time since I've read any horror. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with thatI had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, but she certainly peoples her world borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with ghosts. Here is Odinn, and them to some extent his ghost – certainly therethe point that I couldn's t shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the ghost of vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn'what ift like that! It doesn' around himt have those jump scares, and the man he might have been if he hadnI didn't abandoned the young mother of his child. have to read it during daylight hours only! Here But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that very wifeat least in part, who is now dead herself. Here is the spirit of failure horrors arises from very normal situations such as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had breakup, trying a fatal heart attack – that tasknew dieting app, going to investigate a children's care home in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went onhen party and a coping with grief. And that place certainly should be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more is to come…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>1803363932

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=David MitchellChuck Tingle|title=Slade HouseCamp Damascus|rating=3.5

|summary=Once every nine years Jonah 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 Norah Greyer entertain , in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both a guest; each time secular and a different person… or persons. Each visitor walks through religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the small black door skin of Slade House for various reasons of their own. Or at least they think they know why theyChristian ''pray the gay away''re there but only Jonah and Norah know camps to show the real reason – reader the only reasonhorror lurking within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473616689</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1529382823|title=The UndesiredLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=If youCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're lucky enough off on a cruise to go to Iceland they will tell youNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, even in this day and ageGemma, reckons that the place Pete is heavily populated with trollsgoing to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may They've not agree with been a couple for that, but she certainly peoples her world with ghostslong and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Here Meanwhile, Gemma is Odinn, and to some extent his ghost – certainly therelooking after Caz's the ghost of cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It'what if' around hims going to be good, and the man he might have been if he hadnisn't abandoned the young mother of his childit?}}{{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. Here It is that very wife, who is now dead herself. Here is the spirit of failure used as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a fatal heart attack – ''Big Bad'', whether that taskis a home invader, to investigate a childrenmonster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's care home ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went onhorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. And Horrors that place certainly should be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, linger and more is are harder to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>defeat than any ''Big Bad''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derek LandyB0BHR8KWSK|title=Demon RoadDukkha|author=Martin Hyde

|genre=TeensHorror|summary= Amber Lamont was Sam wakes up chained in a relatively ordinary 16-year-oldbasement. He rails against his captor and the injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of course, living a pretty quiet, uneventful he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life; she went by going to school, had a part-time job, retreat and emerging as a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parentsneophyte Buddhist monk. But over Recently returning to join the course of just one day everything goes completely to hell. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demoncommunity in his old neighbourhood, a genuine, red-skinned, satanic monster, with horns and talons that can rip a human he knew his past would be hard to shreds. Her demon side is the least of her problems, however. For Amberescape but he hadn's parents are also demons, and now that her powers have manifested, they are intent on eating her and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on the run, travelling the Demon Road across America t imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such a desperate attempt to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets of his ownviolent fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008140812</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillChristopher Golden|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Zero Hour has passed. Despite throwing absolutely everything they had into a full on assault on Dracula's forces, the combined might of the supernatural departments failed to destroy the ancient vampire, and he has returned to full strength, ready to strike at humanity with unadulterated violence. Secrecy is no longer an option as the entire world reels from the revelation that vampires are real. Department 19 has been through so much, shaken to its core by secrets, betrayals and losses. With the public eye now firmly upon them, the very fundamentals Road of the Department come under fire, as issues of morality that have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst to the fore. Jamie, Larissa, Kate and Matt have always found themselves at the centre of the chaos, and despite each struggling with their own demons, their friendship and companionship has helped them survive and even thrive within the department. Humanity's last stand will need them at their very best, will need every force that the supernatural departments of the world can muster, whether it be human, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when the entire future of humanity is at stake. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon Bisley|title=13 CoinsBones

|genre=Graphic NovelsHorror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'For the love of money is … the root of all kinds of evilR504.'' ThereStretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, Iit've done it – quoted s one of the Bible in a reviewworld's most notorious routes. ItFor months of the year it's certainly pertinent in a spread of sheet ice suspended above the world permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of this graphic novelunremitting, where the fallen angels have one getapocalyptic-out clause they have been seeking since those level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very lapsarian eventsoften. They turned Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a little section of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinslesson, which it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can influence the human holders into sheer evileasily find documentaries about it online, but might just cause an open war on Heaventhat's a bit rich, whether they or the best for one of the holy on earth use them all. The best of the holy thenour main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, offspring of the good angelsis a film-maker, are culled as doing a routinerecce with his cameraman buddy, but not one John Prentiss – John Pozner, who 's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of course has no idea of his place the funds he'd invested in the celestial circle pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of life…a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>1803361476

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert BrockwayAlly Wilkes|title= The UnnoticeablesAll the White Spaces|rating= 3.54|genre= ParanormalHorror|summary= Carey is 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 punk living in New York Cityfresh start, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, 1977without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. Sick However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of watching his friends be abducted past and killed, he doesn’t care about the rumours shadow of strange monsters the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do is drink beer grief stalk the party and kick ass. In the present day, Kaitlyn is in Hollywood. A stuntwomanwhen disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, she has a missing best friend, has just escaped an attempt menacing presence waits to prey on her life, and an angel their darkness. If Jonathan is waiting outside her door. The survival to make it out of the human race lies in the hands of Carey Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and Kaitlyn. We arefor all, all of usor risk making the barren, well and truly screwed…icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>1789097835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian Edginton and Alex SanchezAmanda Mason|title=The Evil WithinHiding Place|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=What do you fear most? And when you've answered that, think on why – is it something that happened to you, something you saw or read, or something you yourself did? The nature of horror is looked at in this graphic novel, which spins the usual web of nightmares around some fit young adults, and tests them with graphic death on the cards at the same time as keeping them in the dark about what has brought the doom and gloom to them. Starting with Dana, a college girl seeking her kidnapped best friend, things get darker, weirder, and forever more violent…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Knox|title=Wake|rating=3

|summary= Theresa – a policewoman investigating a helicopter crash, finds herself in KahukuraNeeding an escape from their turbulent life, a New Zealand settlement that on first appearances is relatively calm Nell Galilee takes her husband and beautiful. However, as soon as she arrivesstepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a wave cliffside holiday cottage by the name of violence and madness hits Elder House. She hopes that it will be the town – with the locals intent on destroying both themselves and each otherperfect place to sort things out. As the wave of madness passes, it becomes clear that But there 's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is a field surrounding the town unsettling and off – trapping the survivors inside. They must work together to grieve, come to terms with what they have done, and before long Nell starts to find a way out of the situation. As the madness threatens to return, the fear suspect that the violence may return becomes an increasing reality…she and her family aren't alone there…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472117530</amazonuk>1838771964}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin J Myers8409290103|title=The Grindle WitchIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=''Deep in the woods something evil is stirring...'' You can say that again. Jack Jolly's Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father is a pathologist and neither , cotton-broker AO Lowry: he nor asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the armed police with boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's bodya monthly allowance. Whoever or whatever killed Patrick sent the old man has carried out money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the most savage attack anyone two although we hear more about what Lowry has ever seento say than Patrick. And Jack It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, who has just moved it was that he didn't care to the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought it have him in this country where he might be a boring danger to his wife and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happensother children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way. How wrong could he have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B Reid1787301435|title=Beyond the Trees of Gulavstadt: A Gothic Short StoryDark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Amy works for Claralingua, 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 London education company that runs English schools all over long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the world, and Amy is travelling car to Gulavstadt, a remote town its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in Eastern Europe, to inspect one front of her she instinctively jerked the schoolssteering wheel and hit a tree. Gulavstadt is a town of myths and When she came round after the setting of a recent horror filmaccident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'The Thing Behind the Trees'', exploiting them - featuring medievald made her first mistake some time ago, flesh-eating ghouls with mouths lined with although the sharpest of teeth. But myths donrealisation wouldn't bother Amy.be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00U9I7KNI</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughGrady Hendrix|title=The Death HouseSouthern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Toby would appear to be lucky Women, by and large, having have always been the run of an isolated country mansion on a small island off subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the coast of Britain. But no. His domain only exists at night, powerful man and only then because he sleeps let nothing stand in the day and refuses his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to take the Slaying Vampires'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an eveninggives women their due. He It is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with an ode to the Defective genestrong selfless housewife. Whatever it would normally lead to, even Hendrix illustrates this by having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, and being the cause of the night-time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things them go, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children in his Dorm, the only one not toe to have suffered toe with a loss of life. But things are about predatory male vampire who moves in to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numbers, and one of them, Clara, is the agent of that changetheir quiet cul de sac. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>1683691431

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Kurt Unsworth 1529009677|title=The Devil's Detective A Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=23.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=There Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are some obvious things in life (and death), but one having problems. It's not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade of the most clear is that Hell will be Hellishmarriage. This is Their son, Michael, was killed in a place that sinners go car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to be punisheddrive. HoweverNot only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, for every Dante’s Infernobut he also killed his girlfriend, there is fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a depiction sense of hell that is not so badshame and guilt. Who really Rachel is broken, but she wants to read something depressing about forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved out of the desolation of soulsfamily home, apart from those pesky 14th Century types? According but stresses to ''The Devil’s Detective''his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, people in the 21st Century do toothat it is only a trial separation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195651X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)Orphans of the Tide|rating=45

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read In the [[Zomlast city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy -B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriesthe god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!darkest secrets...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>0241384435

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Frozen Charlotte|author=Alex Bell|rating=4|genre=Teens|summaryisbn=When Sophie and Jay play around with a ouija board app that Jay has downloaded to his phone, things go awfully wrong. Sophie asks to speak to Rebecca, a cousin of hers who died in mysterious circumstances. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very night, Jay drowns in the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accident. Or was it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1789090873|title=Jekyll's Mirror|author=William Hussey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam is doing his best but he feels the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother to death, wouldn't you? He tries to concentrate on schoolwork and his art and keep that anger locked away deep down inside, but it's not easy. His aunt Cora does her best to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustful, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasn't fallen far from (his father's) tree.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDread Nation|author=Jesse Bullington (editor)|title=Letters to Lovecraft : Eighteen Whispers to the DarknessJustina Ireland|rating=45

|summary=Howard Phillips Lovecraft ''Two days after I was, born … the dead rose up and started to me, walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg '' Dread Nation narrates the author unconventional life of ruinously mediocre post-Victorian penny dreadful horror fictionJane 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, concerning far too numerous manyminorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-tentacled, secretly-worshipped, extra-dimensional monster threats education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to mankind destroy the dead once and for his – and our – own goodall. It's little wonder that he lived For Jane and died in poverty, and only became of note posthumously. That note seems to be buildingother girls like her, there is however, hence this collection of stories the opportunity for a better life by many award-winning modern writers of the dark being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and macabre, all looking back yet going much furtherperfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and pretty much are valued above all providing us with a showcase for their own, contemporary talentelse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908983108</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne Truss1471407764|title=Cat out of HellThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=35

|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. HeMartha's retired and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories of his colleague wife, now that she world has died before her timechanged. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging Blind in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked at, just before he left. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence of one eye after falling from a talking cat called Rogertree, replete she wakes with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cata disturbing gift. WorryinglyShe can read people through their clothes, we soon see what at secrets tumble from the most only a few of the characters canweave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alecknowledge she doesn's wifet understand. ItShe flees to her grandmother, Mormor's only when Roger testifies cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to having been pushed through the ends give and stumbles into a world of endurance and out the other side that we begin to doubt where the true evil in this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>menace.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1788950720|title=Robin Ince and Johnny Mains Whiteout (editorsRed Eye)|titleauthor=Dead FunnyGabriel Dylan

|summary=In Are you up for a world of nightmaressleepless night or two? If so, disasters, death and ignominy there read on! Charlie is on a book called ''Dead Funnyschool trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Invented purely Charlie tends to satisfy the remit built into its title, it collects some horror stories written go off by comedians, both household names and those more uphimself -and-coming. Like all horror books it comes out at the time of year best suited for horror – Halloween, when we read with the darkest corners not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in our rooms, with the longest evenings outside – but is only suited for Halloween because it is a worthless, hellish piece of dross. It never excites, it is the most selfski resort -serving vanity project, and the only funny thing about it this is that some idiot ever decided it was worth publishing. Now I know you know, courtesy what brings him into contact with one of those bright shiny stars alongside this reviewthe ski guides, that this volume, Dead Funny, is not Hanna. Hanna herself doesn''that'' Dead Funny. But just bear in mind t have the horror story happiest backstory and this could have been, if these pages were not so surprisingly adept at taking those said nightmares, disasters, deaths and ignominy and presenting forms a connection between them to us so competently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=9386897385|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesNothing Lasting|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasLaura Solomon|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesHorror|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound rightWe never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your headIt's what his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, or better yet if not thinking of them at all''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When these words are spoken they could lead she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wronghaunt Boyo. Are you prepared She wants him to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>he could be a famous arsonist.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1538761858|title=Printer's Devil CourtThe Anomaly|author=Susan HillMichael Rutger

|summary=Susan Hill is by far Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the master intrepid (if rather inept) team of the old fashioned ghost story. If youinternet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly''ve ever read or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], then you’ll already know that, but her other ghost stories are a little less famous. That doesn’t make them any less good, and I for only to (spoilers) actually find one am a big fan. I think there’s a lot to be said for a good old fashioned scareImagine if, with apparitionsinstead of being scared by their own acting, goosebumps Derek Acorah and cold chills up Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the spinestarting point of this book. I always feel like I should be reading these books around Deep in a campfire, wrapped cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a blanket Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and eating marshmallows because it very much reminds me of sharing ghost stories with my friends when I was a child. What I like to call a ‘proper scare’conspiracy thrown into the blend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125365X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Quick|author=Lauren Owen|ratingisbn=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Quick is the debut of author Lauren Owen, and set in the gothic world of Victorian London. Owen guides us through the lives of several characters, but specifically James and Charlotte, siblings living in a Yorkshire mansion. Left to fend for themselves due to a dead mother and an absent father, the two grow up close, playing dark games to pass the time. It is only when James, the younger child, moves to London, that the games become very real indeed, and both brother and sister must fight to save not just themselves, but their humanity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569973</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1683690122|title=The Strain Book OneWe Sold Our Souls|author=Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham and Dan JacksonGrady Hendrix|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A liner ends its journey from Europe in a port city, and waits, silently, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs of life. It is found to contain a heavy box, almost coffin-like, containing mud – and something else. But this is not the coasts of England, and this is not Bram Stoker. This is also not a sailing boat, but an airliner – a Boeing 777, stuck at JFK airport with no signs of life. The CDC and one man – Dr Ephraim Goodweather – are tasked with looking into it. But he won't like what he finds – and nor should anyone. The problem is, some ''do…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Remaining|author=D J Molles|rating=45

|summary=When reading ‘The Remaining’ by I had The night manager of a warm feeling insideBest Western, not due Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to the psychological terror in the bookobscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, but because it seems rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that I am not the only person who is prepared for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. No may have sabotaged more an illustrious group than just the US Army itself is preparedband. In each of the mainland States of America a trained soldier is moved underground whenever journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a potential disaster is on hellish music festival, she's determined to face the horizonman who ruined her life. Captain Lee Harden has found himself in his bunker several timesBut with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, but has always climbed out again a few days later, until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356503453</amazonuk>will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=ETDWB|title=SentinelEven The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Joshua WinningSteven Ramirez|rating=34.5

|summary=In many ways this book the third and final part of the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is not as typical of fantasy headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and mild horror as retribution. With the summary might suggest. Unlike a lot events of stories where we join book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the main character in rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the aftermath of secret testing facility. As events come to a major eventclimax, this one begins before Nicholas is orphaned. The everand Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-increasing tension as his parents leave for military sociopath and a train journeygroup of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, coming so soon after a menacing and mysterious prologue, makes the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it pretty clear to us that they won't be returning, and that Nicholas out of this alive? And what kind of world will soon be in deadly danger himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>he have left?

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Quickening|author=Julie Myerson|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Rachel and Dan are on holiday in the Caribbean, but soon after they arrive on the island of Antigua odd and disturbing things start to happen. Items seemingly move by themselves. Things break. People appear out of nowhere. And then, the attacks start. Rachel is petrified. Newly pregnant she is worrying for her baby’s safety as well as her own, and she has a nagging feeling in her stomach that the one person she should be able to trust is the one she simply cannot. Dan is acting strangely and though she begs him to let them go home early, he plays down her fears. Why won’t he believe what she’s saying, and take her seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580241</amazonuk>}}{{newreview |authorisbn=Adam HamdyDIAYG|title=Phase|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life to finding his daughter and the people who abducted her. It's cost him everything - his marriage, his relationship with his son, his job and - in all probability - his sanity. He's reached the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is not an option and many Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of his actions are irrational. If any part of this can be described as having an upside it's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers to him a case which bears startling similarities to AmberTell Me When I's abduction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=A Love Like Bloodm Dead|author=Marcus SedgwickSteven Ramirez

|summary=One day towards Still battling the end of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged to a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtime. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man zombie hordes who first appeared in a wartime bunker in the grounds, squatting over a female figure''Tell Me When I'm Dead'', blood on Dave Pulaski thinks his lips that could only prayers have come from her neckline. Years later, Jackson returns been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up to Paris for reasons to do with rescue him and his medical career, and finds the same man in the company of someone who, were he wife Holly. But things only aware of get worse – with the factvirus mutating, is to become and the first and possibly only love of his lifeinfected getting smarter. But that's not When Dave discovers the only time truth behind the paths contagion it will drive him past all limits of Jackson faith or reason – but will he be able to manage to deal with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and the mysterious male are destined those closest to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>him?