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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]==Horror==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|title=Zombie: An Anthology of the Undead|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Anyone who enjoys a good horror story and likes zombie films will love this book, which is a collection of nineteen short stories by a variety of authors. I have to admit that I have only heard of one of the authors before <!-- Remove - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]], who writes the [[The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - but I am not an avid reader of the genre and don't doubt that the authors will be known to readers more familiar with it. Despite this unfamiliarity, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the stories, with just one or two seemingly not up to scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Jackson BennettRichard Kadrey|title=Mr Shivers|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Marcus Connelly, a quiet, reserved and private man, has recently joined the mass of humanity travelling west in search of work. It's the Midwest in the 1930s and the Great Depression is in full swing. The dustbowl is a desperate place and there's none more desperate than Connelly. But Connelly doesn't need a job and he has a wife and a home. Connelly isn't missing prosperity; he's missing his daughter, and he's in search of the man who killed her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Huston |title=My Dead Body (Joe Pitt Casebook)Pale House Devil
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Joe Pitt's New York is one riddled with VampyresFord and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, infected by a Vyrus that makes though really the way I thought of them drink blood and die in through the sun. It is also book was as a wasteland couple of lawless tribes strange detectives! One of Vampyresthem is living, gang warfare carving up Manhattan into territoriesyou see, each with their own leadersand the other is undead, specialist workersand so one of them kills the living, fightersand the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, animositiesobviously). As we start book five, JoeThey's re on a job in New York is actually a subterranean onethat goes badly, as he hides from everyone in the sewers and tunnels, until so they head out to the enterprise of West coast to try to lay low for a top dog character flushes him out, while and tells Pitt 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 his daughter - themselves uncovering a messianic poster girl for the future whole lot of the city.family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496820</amazonuk>1803363894
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley JacksonRachel Harrison|title=The Haunting of Hill HouseBad Dolls
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=There was It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a time before 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 point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! There was time before Don't worry - this short story collection isn'The Shining''. t like that! There was a time when 'horrorIt doesn' was not rooted in bloodt have those jump scares, guts and gore. I owe a slight apology didn't have to Mr Kingread it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, because along with the gutsier side and I found most of that feeling came from the genrefact that these are stories about women, I will own living normal lives, and that he is at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a master at suspensecoping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141191449</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=F G CottamChuck Tingle|title=The Magdalena CurseCamp Damascus|rating=23.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Mark Hunter Love is the sort of father who would do anything for his sonlove; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. After losing his wife The UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime and daughter , in a tragic accidentthe US, his surviving son Adam has become his whole worldnearly 700 000 adults have received it. And Adam Although it is an exceptional child – beautifulboth a secular and a religious prejudice, incredibly smart and mature beyond Chuck Tingle, in his ten years – only recently henew horror, 's been channelling 'Camp Damascus'', peels back the voices skin of Christian ''pray the dead. Plagued by horrific dreams, able to speak Russian in the hours after he wakes, drawing occult symbols when he doodles, Hunter believes Adam gay away'' camps to be possessed. Doctor Elizabeth Bancroft is sceptical, until she meets Adam, and witnesses show the horrors reader the poor boy endures for herselfhorror lurking within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley1529382823|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Young Robert Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is put middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a train back cruise to school by New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his stepmothersuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. It They's ve not been a couple for that long and the first journey hetrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's made on his owncafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It turns out 's going to be more of good, isn't it?}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a challenge than he could ever have imaginedway to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. The train stalls at the mouth of Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a tunnel ghost, it usually something tangible and while , by the other passengers sleep through end of the waitstory, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a mysterious woman collection of short stories more interested in white tells him a series the horrors of stories - stories with a differenceillness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK
|title=Dukkha
|author=Martin Hyde
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and the injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shaun HutsonChristopher Golden|title=Last RitesRoad of Bones|rating=43.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=A man gets viciously beaten up by unknown assailants in The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a North London streetthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. Only afterwards do we discover anything about him 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 think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he is wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a teacherlife every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, with but that's a dead daughterbit rich, for one of our main characters, an estranged wifeFelix 'Teig' Teigland, and after the assault is a newfilm-found urge maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to flee, and encourage the project to move on fruition to something and somewhere new. Meanwhile, claw back some of the funds he'd invested in rural Buckinghamshire, odd things are happeningthe pair's prior TV projects. People are brutally killing and displaying animalsThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, while unconnected teenagers with both long-term aims and immediate intentionsgain the company of a local beauty, are suddenly and flippantly killing themselvesfetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497657</amazonuk>1803361476
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HustonAlly Wilkes|title=Every Last Drop (Joe Pitt)All the White Spaces
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=Joe Pitt is a heavyIn post-drinkingWWI England, chain-smokingJonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, superhuman Vampyre. A rogue in this adventure represents a chance for a secret world of violence fresh start, and bloodlust set in the heart opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of The Bronxhis parents. Away from However, Jonathan isn't the steady infrastructure only one fleeing the confines of American society, his past and the various Vampyre clans have found shadow of the perfect place to hide themselves away from war hangs like a funeral shroud over the 'Van Helsings' of their worldexpedition. The clansGuilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, each with a menacing presence waits to prey on their own agendadarkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have claimed a piece of The Bronx as their territory to face his demons once and over for all, or risk making the years have established themselves wellbarren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496812</amazonuk>1789097835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie RyanAmanda Mason|title=The Forest Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing 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 Hands Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and Teethher 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-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - 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, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1787301435
|title=Dark Waters
|author=G R Halliday
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 long 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. 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 mistake some time ago, although the realisation wouldn't 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.
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{{Frontpage
|author= Grady Hendrix
|title= The Southern Book Club'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 powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an 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
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{{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's not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. 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 car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)
|title=Orphans of the Tide
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the 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, darkest secrets...
|isbn=0241384435
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1789090873
|title=Dread Nation
|author=Justina Ireland
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Mary has lived her whole life in ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a village battlefield in the middle of the Forest of Hands and Teeth, protected from the Unconsecrated by a fence. Life small town in the village is simple if you follow the rules – obey the Sisterhood for they know best, preserve the next generation by marrying and having children and stay away from the fence. Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Gaiman1471407764|title=CoralineThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersHorror|summary=Coraline Martha's world has just moved to changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a new flat in tree, she wakes with a huge converted old housedisturbing gift. It's She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the summer holidaysweave, but her parents both work from home but are busyrevealing insights she doesn't really want, so operate a general policy of benign neglectand knowledge she doesn't understand. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible on the ground floor offer Coraline the odd cup of tea - and read its leaves She flees to boot. The crazy old man upstairs is busy training a mouse circus. Thereher grandmother, Mormor's plenty of scope for exploring in the groundscabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give and so that's what Coraline does, just as Alice did before she found Wonderlandstumbles into a world of menace. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597308</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Rardin1788950720|title=One More Bite Whiteout (Jaz ParksRed Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=''You are in the business of ghost releaseAre you up for a sleepless night or two?''If so, read on!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Ransom9386897385|title=The Birthing House Nothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Spooky, sprawling house out in We never know the sticks – checkman's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. RelocatedIt's what his mother used to call him, youngnot least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, childless, vulnerable couple – checkif not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Slow drip-drip of the odd to chill the male of the couple while she Housework is away in a working assignment – checkforeign country. Slow drip-drip When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of the odd years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to chill the reader? haunt Boyo. Well, given patience, yes, somewhatShe wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751541710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson1538761858|title=Body CountThe Anomaly|author=Michael Rutger|rating=45
|genre=Horror
|summary=There is a certain edge to Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the prologue intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to this latest Shaun Hutson(spoilers) actually find one. Is it a futuristic slasherImagine if, or a sci-fi slasherinstead of being scared by their own acting, an otherworldly fantasy slasher? You'll see Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the connection among my suggestions – starting point of this is a Shaun Hutson book, after all, and we can expect no let-up . Deep in a cave within the gore Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and carnage over conspiracy thrown into the few hundred pages to followblend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Holt1683690122|title=The Devouring|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Reggie, a fifteen year old girl who cannot quite come to terms with her younger brother Henry's behaviour. Is it down to her awakening at last to boys and driving lessons? Is it that, due to an easily diverted father and a mother who left the household months ago, she is fed up with being a free babysitter? Or is the real reason more akin to what is in a scratchy journal she finds due to her working in an occult bookshop? Is Henry in fact only going to dark and disagreeable places and moods due to possession by a Vour, a devilish entity that thrives on developing then dining on fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141325267</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWe Sold Our Souls|author=Jennifer Rardin|title=Bitten to Death (Jaz Parks)Grady Hendrix|rating=45
|genre=Horror
|summary=''Slash'' – the sound The night manager of vampires lashing out at each other – a noise Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and activity youunhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90'll have s Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to get used to when reading this book and the three prequels. Vayl is obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a vampire working on behalf of humankindsolo career, despatching the nastier side of the undead rocketing to stardom as and when required. ''CrunchKoffin'' – the past colliding with the present in this latest mission, as Vayl and his human counterpart Jaz encounter . When a Grecian troupe shocking act of vampires, about violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to be taken over it would appear by the baddy of baddies, Samos. Jaz a past she has tried to face up forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the fact band. In a journey that Vayl has will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a history with this band of vamps. Which is nothing compared hellish music festival, she's determined to face the present he man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and a certain female among them are threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to share.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497088</amazonuk>defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laurell K Hamilton ETDWB|title=Blood Noir (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=34.5
|genre=Horror
|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?
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{{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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Horror
|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?
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