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|title=The Quick
|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely hero, given his occupation as a seller of second hand books, but he has some illustrious connections, not least to Sir Frederick Appleby. Some say that ''he'' runs the country and Appleby's deputy, Peter Tyndale is married to Debrett's sister, Celia. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadn't elicited a single cry of grief from a relative, but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett to attend the funeral in France of a former business partner, Arthur Moreau. There are, apparently, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite Debrett's estrangement from the deceased over recent years he's thought to be the person best able to obtain the answers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Darren Shan
|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>
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{{newreview
|author=Graham McNamee
|title=Beyond
|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>
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{{newreview
|author=James Herbert
|title=Ash
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=
There are strange goings on at Comraich Castle, with the normal poltergeist type activities of cold spots in rooms and the lights inexplicably dimming having escalated into a resident being found pinned to the wall of his room by his own blood and innards. David Ash is sent in to investigate, but he is warned that he must work alone and in secrecy, as whilst some of 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 existence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706959</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cherie Priest
|title=Eden Moore – Not Flesh Nor Feathers
|rating=5
|genre=Horror
|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 a long way since the [[Eden Moore – Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest|first time]] we encountered her. She's learnt a lot from media celebrity Dana Marshall, is nearly 25 and has decided it's time to move out of Aunt Lu and Uncle David's place. She even has her eye on an apartment in a downtown block by the river. However, some things don't change. The Read House is being renovated to combine a hotel and Starbucks but one room remains untouched due to paranormal activity. Eden's TV journalist friend Nick calls her in to communicate with the ghost, a young girl who isn't satisfied with scary noises and shifting ornaments. Within moments of entering Eden is trapped as the phantom attempts to tear her limb from limb mumbling about how 'they' are coming for her. Who are 'they'? Why are people disappearing near the river? Chattanooga will soon find out as it's about to flood and in the mud something stirs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687743</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susan Hill
|title=The Man in the Picture
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=There is a theory regarding ghosts that they are projected recordings from the very brickwork of buildings – that 'stone tapes' can replay scenes or characters of heightened emotion so that people can see the vestige of what went before. What if something a bit more animated than a building – a lively, realistic oil painting – can also convey collected recorded instances of such strong feelings - feelings such as mortal terror? It would be like Dorian Gray's portrait, recording all the horrors, keeping them intact in one place – but would it be the cause or the effect?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685443</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susan Hill
|title=Dolly
|rating=4.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=An empty house in the remote fenlands of England, 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 name, and the subtitle 'a ghost story' on the cover… We do seem to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beast.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>
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