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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]]==Horror==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew FukudaMariana Enriquez|title=The PreyA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them on the boat left by the Scientists, Gene, Sissy and the boys make their way down the river and arrive at the Mission. Food Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is abundantdisturbingly real, the place is peaceful, and the Elders promise them a trip achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on the next train gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to Civilisation. Gene and Sissy can hardly believe it. But it's soon apparent that the Mission is not all it seems an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and Gene begins to wonder if they haven't simply exchanged one hellhole for another. Although they find out a great deal more about the Scientist crime- he developed the Origin, a cure for vampirism ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - understanding his plans is as frustrating as everall within Argentina. And with The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the vampires coming ever closer, even to the Mission itself, and the Elders making moves of their own, time is running out and Gene and Sissy must decide what to do..supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>1803511230

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Booth0008385068|title=The Arthur Moreau Story|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|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>}} {{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>}} {{newreviewMidnight Feast|author=Graham McNamee|title=BeyondLucy Foley

|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Teenager JaneIt's life so far has been plagued by near-fatal accidents. The last one left a nail embedded in her brain midsummer on the Dorset coast and the doctors say surgery is too dangerous. And she sleepwalks guests gather at night, walking alone in a daze up the highwayThe Manor. As you can imagine, Jane It's parents their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are beyond worried about herpromised. But they don It't know the worst of its all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Only Lexi, Jane The Manor was her ancestral home and she's best friend converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and fellow Creep Sisterfamous. Her husband, Owen, doeswas the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The truth heat is that Janeoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won's shadow t be long before a body is trying to kill her. Literallyfound. She has no control over it but it has control of her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491278X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James HerbertRichard Kadrey|title=AshThe Pale House Devil

|summary=There Ford and Neuland are strange goings on at Comraich Castlea couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, with though really the normal poltergeist type activities way I thought of cold spots in rooms and them through the lights inexplicably dimming having escalated into book was as a resident being found pinned to couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and the wall other is undead, and so one of his room by his own blood them kills the living, and innardsthe other kills the undead. David Ash is sent (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to investigate, but he is warned that he must work alone the West coast to try to lay low for a while and in secrecy, as whilst find some of other work to keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the residents 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of Comraich Castle are not ghostsfamily history, they are considered long dead by the outside world and a terrifyingly powerful creature that world must they've never know of their continued existence.come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230706959</amazonuk>1803363894

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cherie PriestRachel Harrison|title=Eden Moore – Not Flesh Nor FeathersBad Dolls|rating=54|genre=HorrorShort Stories|summary=A year has passed since medium Eden MooreIt's brush with the [[Eden Moore - Wings to the Kingdom by Cherie Priest|ghostly battlefields]] and shebeen some time since I's certainly come a long way since the [[Eden Moore – Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest|first time]] we encountered herve read any horror. She's learnt I had a lot couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from media celebrity Dana Marshall, is nearly 25 a boy I fancied at school and has decided itscaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn's time to move out t shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of Aunt Lu and Uncle David's place. She even has her eye on an apartment in a downtown block by the river. vampires outside! However, some things donDon't worry - this short story collection isn't change. like that! The Read House is being renovated to combine a hotel It doesn't have those jump scares, and Starbucks but one room remains untouched due I didn't have to paranormal activity. read it during daylight hours only! Eden's TV journalist friend Nick calls her in to communicate with the ghostBut it is creepy, a young girl who isn't satisfied with scary noises and shifting ornaments. Within moments I found most of entering Eden is trapped as that feeling came from the phantom attempts to tear her limb from limb mumbling fact that these are stories about how 'they' are coming for her. Who are 'they'? Why are people disappearing near women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the river? Chattanooga will soon find out horrors arises from very normal situations such as it's about a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to flood a hen party and in the mud something stirsa coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857687743</amazonuk>1803363932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Susan HillChuck Tingle|title=The Man in the PictureCamp Damascus|rating=43.5

|summary=There 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 theory regarding ghosts that they are projected recordings from crime and, in 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 beforeUS, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. What if something Although it is both a bit more animated than secular and a building – a livelyreligious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', realistic oil painting – can also convey collected recorded instances peels back the skin of such strong feelings - feelings such as mortal terror? It would be like Dorian GrayChristian ''s portrait, recording all pray the horrors, keeping them intact in one place – but would it be gay away'' camps to show the cause or reader the effect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685443</amazonuk>horror lurking within.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1529382823|title=DollyThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=An empty house Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in the remote fenlands of England, love with Pete. They're off on a man returning cruise to it alone… a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet still yielding power… New York on ''Atlantica''. [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]Caz's namesister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going 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. They've not been a couple for that long and the subtitle 'trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a ghost storybit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz' on the cover… s cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. We do seem It's going to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]]good, but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Yrsa SigurdardottirEric LaRocca|title=The Trees Grew Because I Remember YouBled There|rating=5|genre=CrimeHorror|summary=Too often, people – such Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as myself – refer a way to a book reflect our darkest emotions and how we as being humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a rollercoaster read''Big Bad'', mostly down to whether that is a simply topsy-turvy plot. But this is the true embodiment of home invader, a white-knuckle ride. It has the anxiety of the queue as we watch three people – monster or a couple ghost, it usually something tangible and another young woman – get ferried across , by the fjord to one end of western Icelandthe story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's most remote outposts, with the aim being to renovate an old building as a guesthouse. ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There's the crunch of the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find ' is not like that something very malevolent . It is hiding a collection of short stories more interested in the tiny settlementhorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. And just as the car starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbs-up from those leaving the ride, telling us all is well Horrors that linger and all survivedare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth OppelB0BHR8KWSK|title=Such Wicked Intent (Victor Frankenstein)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Such Wicked Intent'' takes us to a few months after the shocking conclusion to Victor Frankenstein's alchemical attempt to save his brother's life in [[This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel|This Dark Endeavour]]. The Dark Library has been burned and the entire family is trying to move on. Elizabeth is secretly considering joining a convent. Henry is making plans to travel abroad with his merchant father. Victor's parents are trying to come to terms with everything but his mother is finding it particularly difficult.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560166</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDukkha|author=Ted Kosmatka|title=The GamesMartin Hyde|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's the near future and the Olympics go on, but not without changes. A new event has been added to those that we'd recognise: genetically engineered gladiatorial combat. This is no holds barred competition, with one rule: each country's gladiator must be devoid of any human DNA. Indeed, America is so good that their team has won all the last three games' golds, thanks to geneticist Dr Silas Williams, but this year is different. This year he has nothing to do with the design; someone sent a single design criterion to an experimental intelligence computer. (You just know that was a bad idea day don't you?) The design criteria is just one sentence, just words, but words can be misunderstood and misunderstanding can be devastating for more than just genetically manufactured gladiators.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781164142</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mira Grant|title=Blackout|rating=5

|summary=The last thing Georgia Mason remembers is her brother Shaun putting a bullet in the base of her neck. So how come she's alive and kicking and locked Sam wakes up chained in some CDC facility somewhere? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499005</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shams Uddin|title=The Year from Jahannam|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Wright family begin a blog in January 2011basement. They all want to celebrate a new start after the turmoil of recent years. Father Richard had been a casualty of the financial crisis, working for Lehman Brothers at the time of its collapse, and the ensuing chaos had affected the entire family one way or another. But Richard retrained, secured a new job and has recently earned a huge bonus. At last the family are back on track He rails against his captor and enjoying the fruits injustice of hard labour. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957175205</amazonuk>}}his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?''

{{newreview|author=Cherie Priest|title=Eden Moore - Wings to the Kingdom|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Dead soldiers from the American Civil War have been seen wandering around the Chickamauga National Park in Georgia, site But of a notable Confederate victory in 1863. They don't speak, just point forlornly as locals turn and flee in the opposite direction. Eden Moore would rather ignore it completelycourse, especially as show business psychics Tripp and Diana Marshall have already started investigating, complete with camera crew and full entouragehe knows why. However, eventually her curiosity (Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and her friends' unstinting nagging) gets dirty life by going to her a retreat and she agrees emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning to trespass after darkjoin the community in his old neighbourhood, quickly discovering that the gesticulating dead are a minor problem compared he knew his past would be hard to the reason theyescape but he hadn've awokent imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687735</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew FukudaChristopher Golden|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gene - not that he remembers he's called Gene - is one Road of the few remaining survivors in a city peopled by vampires. His mother and sister were killed when he was just tiny and his father finally succumbed to a fang bite infection some years before. Gene's life is all about concealment. He shaves his body hair. He's careful to avoid any situation in which he might sweat - swimming is ok, but other sports are not. He files his nails. He behaves, always, as a vampire would behave. Everything is going so well until the Heper Hunt is announced... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075411</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martine McDonagh|title=I Have Waited, and You Have ComeBones

|genre=Science FictionHorror|summary=RachelThe Kolyma Highway… the 's world is in a state Road of decay. Her house is falling apart, her boyfriend has left her and civilization has crumbled in Bones'… the wake of plague and extreme climate changeR504. Her only friend Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, Stephanie, is separated from Rachel by the now insurmountable barrier it's one of the Atlantic Ocean, their communication dependent on an increasingly unreliable satellite connecting their phones. At Stephanieworld's prompting Rachel gives her number to local trader Noah, who promises to callmost notorious routes. Instead For months of the number falls into the hands year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the mysterious and sinister Jez Whitepermafrost surrounding it, initiating while its 'spring' sees it turn into a disturbing game huge blodge of cat 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 mouseother Siberian minerals, where the line between stalker and victim becomes blurred as Rachel finally decides because he wanted to take control of her give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a lifeevery metre it covers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Jackson Bennett|title=The Troupe|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=George never knew his father You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a man recce with whom his mother had a brief relationship when cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the Vaudeville - a travelling theatre company - came project to fruition to town. Sixteen years later and George is following claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the footsteps he believes to be his fatherpair's, by playing piano at a theatre on the circuit and hoping his father will show upprior TV projects. He doesn'tThey pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, so George goes in search of him. The first glimpse George has of gain the man he thinks company of as his father is a local beauty, and fetch up at one of the troupeguide's showschildhood village. He is captivated not just by Silenus, but by the entire company.And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356500403</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen DunmoreAlly Wilkes|title=The GreatcoatAll the White Spaces

|summary=Set in 1952 in YorkshireIn post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a young couple move into chance for a rented flat. Philip is the newfresh start, young doctor while his new wife Isabel struggles with and the isolated opportunity to live life with no friends or family as his authentic self and Philip's frequent absence due to true gender, without the demands disapproval and constraints of his jobparents. Things take a turn to However, Jonathan isn't the spooky when, waking from under only one fleeing the warmth confines of his past and the old greatcoat Isabel finds in shadow of the flat, she hears war hangs like a tapping at funeral shroud over the window and finds there an RAF pilot, Alec, who appears to know Isabel intimatelyexpedition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099564939</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Hodkin|title=The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Mara has just started her whole life over - new cityGuilt, new school, new start. It's just what mistrust and grief stalk the doctor orderedparty and, when disaster strikes and her family - though still treating her like she might fall apart at any moment - they are tentatively hopeful that it's just what she needs forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to get back prey on her feettheir darkness. Mara just hopes her memories return. She needs If Jonathan is to know what happened make it out of the night her two best friends Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and her boyfriend died in an accident she somehow managed to escape unscathedfor all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707363X</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerry O'HaraAmanda Mason|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In TransylvaniaHiding Place

|genre=Crime (Historical)Horror|summary=I normally start reviews with Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a brief plot summary, but cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it seems almost besides will be the point perfect place to do so for a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvaniasort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. From those seven words, the reader will have no doubt guessed that this The atmosphere is a Holmes meets Dracula story, unsettling and off – and so we may as well move straight on before long Nell starts to the burning question – is it any good?suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>1838771964}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Golden (Editor)8409290103|title=Monster's CornerIf Only|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=''The Monster's Corner'' is a collection of tales 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 are told from the monster's perspective. It takes the idea that we are all young man got on board the heroes of our own story boat and has thereafter Patrick was to send him a gloriously good time with itmonthly allowance. Ranging from the thought-provoking to the strange, to Patrick sent the shocking money regularly and gory – they're a great selection correspondence - of stories from sorts - sprang up between the likes of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]], [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin Jtwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. Anderson]] It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, Sarah Pinborough it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and many othersother children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colson Whitehead1787301435|title=Zone OneDark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=To start, for once, with the book's style Twenty-two-year- this has probably old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the least dialogue of any book you'll read this yearprivate road in Glen Turrit. There are It was a long road through some comments from characters, but they're few breath-taking scenery and far between - as are those characters that can actually speakshe could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. For we're When the blond child stepped out in a devastated New York, later this century, front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and our three main protagonists are cleaning up after hit a worldwide plague of zombiestree. The active ones have mostly been gunned down by When she came round after the militaryaccident she couldn't work out where she was, but there are it obviously wasn't a few still locked away in hidden corners - as well as inactive onesconventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, called stragglers, who seem stuck in one instant, whether finishing off their last office job although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for the millionth a long time, or like a ghost haunting . She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a place relevant to thempale blue BMW M4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846555981</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyGrady Hendrix|title=Mister CreecherThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Ooh Women, by and large, ooh - two Frankenstein-related books one after have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the other! More of that powerful man and let nothing stand in the further reading at the endhis way. Grady Hendrix's new novel 'Mr Creecher'The Southern Book Club' isns Guide to Slaying Vampires't a retelling, a sequel or a prequel; it's an interlude, set midway through the events of Mary Shelley's novelgives women their due. It's Regency London, the Industrial Revolution is beginning to crank up, and Billy is an orphan and pickpocket trying ode to survive in the grimy streetsstrong selfless housewife. About to rob what he thinks is a corpse, Billy is set upon Hendrix illustrates this by some acquaintances having them go toe to whom he owes money. Before Fletcher's knife prises out Billy's eye, the corpse - not toe with a corpse at all, predatory male vampire who moves in case you didn't guess - comes to his rescue. This huge, shambling man is not a pretty sight. But he has a job for Billy. Mr Creecher has come to London on the trail of Victor Frankenstein, with whom he has a bargain. And he needs Billy to follow Frankenstein to make sure he doesn't renege on the dealtheir quiet cul de sac.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811049</amazonuk>1683691431

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth Oppel1529009677|title=This Dark Endeavour|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Victor and Konrad Frankenstein are twins, born just two minutes apart. They look alike but their personalities couldn't be more different. Konrad is calm, assured and capable. People like him. Victor is intense and arrogant with a burning ambition. He rubs people up the wrong way more often than not. The twins live with their beautiful, sometimes wayward, cousin Elizabeth and the three are educated alongside great friend and wordsmith Henry. It's a charmed life in the Frankenstein chateau in the Genevese republic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560123</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewA Window Breaks|author=Niki Valentine|title=The HauntedC M Ewan

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=ValentineTom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's novel opens with not just the usual growing apart after more than a sinister tale that has nothing to do with haunted boths – but everything to do with rotting relationshipsdecade of marriage. Susan Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and Martin are attempting at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to have drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a second honeymoon tree, but the dynamic between them is clearly flawed from the very starthe also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Susan seems to be experiencing feelings Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of seemingly hysteria-driven loveshame and guilt. Rachel is broken, continually alternating with resentmentbut she wants to forgive Michael. The opening scenes are played To give some space, Tom's moved out in of the relative calm of a smart hotelfamily home, but the tension and irritations between the couple are painfully clearstresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751545082</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan HillStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=The Woman in BlackOrphans of the Tide

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Arthur Kipps is a young solicitor working in a fogIn the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world -bound London and soon who has come to be marriedwreak havoc on the last of humanity. All looks rosy for Arthur until one day he When a mysterious boy is called into his boss' office where he is tasked with pulled from the affairs corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the deceased recluse Alice DrablowVessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. Alice Drablow had lived in As the melancholy village of Crythin Gifford in an isolated house on ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the remote Eel Marshboy, a house only accessible by a strange causeway when the tide Ellie must prove that he is outinnocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets.. It is here Arthur must travel to firstly represent his firm at her funeral and then to sift through Mrs Drablow's house to ensure all her legal paperwork is in order. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685621</amazonuk>0241384435

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thierry Jonquet1789090873|title=Tarantula: The Skin I Live InDread Nation|author=Justina Ireland

|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=In a large French country house, an expert in facial reconstruction surgery keeps a beautiful woman locked ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up in her bedroom. He placates her with opium, but barks orders through hugely powerful speakers and an intercom. She tantalises him with her sexuality, which he tries started to ignore, except for when he seems to abuse it in a sort of S/M way when he does let her into society, as he forces her to prostitute herself. Elsewhere, a young, inept bank robber holes himself up in a sunny house, waiting for the heat to die. And finally, a young man is held chained up in a cellar at the hands of an unknown possessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ira Levin|title=Rosemary's Baby|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A young couple find the beginnings of walk on a dream life together battlefield in a new apartment small town in a New York building that a friend says is a hotbed of death and misfortune. But it seems perfect. His job prospects as an actor have never been better, and theyPennsylvania called Gettysburg 're quickly accepted into the elderly community of their neighbours. What's more, she - Rosemary - gets pregnant. Nothing can go wrong, can it? None of this happiness and hope can come at a dreadful cost - can it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015880</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=David Wong|title=John Dies at Dread Nation narrates the End|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary='John Dies at unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the End' begins with friends John and Dave going dead began to a party and meeting a Jamaican drug dealer who provides John with a hit of something called 'soy sauce'walk the streets. An event which is interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. ThereafterIn the changing world, John starts to see things that others can't see. Dave thinks he has had a bad reaction minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the drug until he accidentally takes a hit dead once and also starts to have strange experiences, seeing odd shadow creatures, none of whom are very friendlyfor all. Even worseFor Jane and other girls like her, people start to die and there is however the opportunity for a dog takes on human characteristicsbetter life by being employed as an attendant. Before longWith deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, John attendants protect those higher in society and Dave are facing death on a regular basis and are aware that they have access to dimensions that normal people don't know aboutvalued above all else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857684833</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mira Grant1471407764|title=Newsflesh Trilogy: DeadlineThe Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge

|summary=Ever since the untimely death of his sister, Shaun Mason Martha's world has been alive, but not much more so than the zombies that populate his post-apocalyptic worldchanged. For the man who built Blind in one eye after falling from a career on poking dead things tree, she wakes with a stickdisturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, just for laughsrevealing insights she doesn't really want, lifeand knowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's just cabin, seeking answers no fun anymoreone is prepared to give and stumbles into a world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498998</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Newman1788950720|title=Anno DraculaWhiteout (Red Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan|rating=34.5

|summary=The story begins in London. It is 1888 and Queen Victoria is on the throne. She has recently remarried, taking as her husband the infamous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula's influence is all around London as more and more of its citizens turn willingly to vampirism, whilst others resist its temptations. A distinct sense of social and political unrest is in the air as factions speak out against the race of vampiresAre you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, somehow spurred read on by the serial killer at large. Known at first as the Silver Knife, but later as Jack the Ripper, this killer targets young vampire women in Whitechapel, prostitutes who have recently turned to vampirism, known as new-borns. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857680838</amazonuk>}}!

{{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We pick up exactly where we left off Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in this second book in David Gatwardthe Austrian mountains. He's The Dead seriesnot having much fun. Lazarus Stone A miserable home life has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice), been to the world of the Dead (dongiven Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he't ask), become s not a Keeper (dangerous job), got popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), safe thing to do if you're staying in a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen off), ski resort - and has gone some way to locating his father (prisoner this is what brings him into contact with one of the Dark and seriously not having a good time of it)ski guides, Hanna. Along with best mate Craig Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has this forms a missionconnection between them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shaun Hutson9386897385|title=EpitaphNothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5

|summary=To state We never know the obvious, all of us are afraid of different thingsman's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. GinaIt's what his mother used to call him, a woman having an affair in cheap hotels, is scared of getting caughtnot least because he found it annoying. PaulWhen we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, mid-30s and in advertising, sees the redundancy notice heif not ''living''s just been handed as prelude to a nightmarish futuremost people would understand it. And Laura, 8, can find the underpass from school to home, She spends her days watching daytime television and echoing footsteps within it, too spookydrinking. The nastiest thing about this book Housework is that for all these charactersa foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, theyfirstly because she're forced beyond these horrorsd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to find haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something even more frighteningin his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497649</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Stross1538761858|title=The Fuller Memorandum|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Our world is not as it seems. We share it with aliens, zombies, demonic spirits, with ancient god-like entities that are all keen to eat our bodies and devour our souls. It's lucky, then, that we have the British secret service to protect us, more specifically a top secret branch of the secret service called The Laundry. This organisation is so secret that even the bosses at MI6 don't know of its existence. The point of the Laundry is to keep all the myriad of terrors endangering the Earth at bay by the careful use of science, technology and magic, magic being a little known branch of applied maths.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice Henderson|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through Time|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick of a book: the prospect of settling down for hours and hours of reading pleasure is very tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fans, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety to the mix. It's absolutely ideal for a holiday read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAnomaly|author=Robert Masello|title=Blood and IceMichael Rutger|rating=45

|summary=Journalist Michael Wilde cannot pass Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the opportunity of spending some time at a research station in Antarctica. His girlfriend is in what could be a permanent coma following a trip that they both made together and he needs to get awayYoutube era. Expecting to see some amazing sights, he is not disappointed. What he was not expecting, however, was to find a block of ice during a diving expedition in which Join the bodies intrepid (if rather inept) team of a man a woman, perfectly preserved, were chained together. By their side were several bottles of what appeared to be wine. However, once the bodies are brought to the surface and defrost, strange things start to happen and before long, everyone at the research station is fighting internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for their lives. Will Michael ever manage to return home safely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523876</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you can say ''the risen undeadan anomaly'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, and/or lead only to the same story being published in many different guises(spoilers) actually find one. HereImagine if, then, on its way to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story instead of Lizzie Bennetbeing scared by their own acting, the feisty young woman trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is until the hidden truths open up to her, just as starting point of this book. Deep in a cave within the soft soils Grand Canyon our team of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s adventurers find themselves trapped in graphic novel forma Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Golden (Editor)1683690122|title=Zombie: An Anthology of the UndeadWe Sold Our Souls|author=Grady Hendrix

|summary=Anyone who enjoys The night manager of a good horror story and likes zombie films will love this bookBest Western, which Kris Pulaski is a collection of nineteen short stories by a variety of authorswashed up and unhappy. I have to admit that I have only heard Few know of one her past as guitarist of the authors before - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]]90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, who writes the [[The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - but I am not an avid reader destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of the genre violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and don't doubt to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the authors band. In a journey that will be known take Kris from a dusty hotel to readers more familiar with it. Despite this unfamiliaritya hellish music festival, I thoroughly enjoyed most of she's determined to face the storiesman who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, with just one or two seemingly not up will Kris be able to scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Jackson BennettETDWB|title=Mr ShiversEven The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=4.5

|summary=Marcus ConnellyIn the third and final part of the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, a quiet, reserved Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and private man, has recently joined retribution. With the mass events of humanity travelling west in search of work. It's book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the Midwest in the 1930s rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the Great Depression is in full swingsecret testing facility. The dustbowl is As events come to a desperate place and there's none more desperate than Connelly. But Connelly doesn't need a job climax, and he has a wife Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a home. Connelly isn't missing prosperity; he's missing his daughtergroup of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, and the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he's in search of the man who killed her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498572</amazonuk>have left?