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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mariana Enriquez|title=A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=SentinelThe Midnight Feast|author=Joshua WinningLucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Richard Kadrey|title=The Pale House Devil|rating=4

|summary=In many ways this Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book is not was as typical a couple of fantasy strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and mild horror as the summary might suggest. Unlike a lot other is undead, and so one of stories where we join them kills the living, and the main character in other kills the aftermath of a major eventundead. (Only not each other, this one begins before Nicholas is orphanedobviously). The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for They're on a train journeyjob in New York that goes badly, coming and so soon after they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a menacing while and mysterious prologue, makes it pretty clear find some other work to keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to us kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they won't be returningfind themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himself.they've never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>1803363894

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The QuickeningRachel Harrison|authortitle=Julie MyersonBad Dolls

|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=Rachel It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and Dan 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! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are on holiday stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the Caribbeanhorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, but soon after they arrive on the island of Antigua odd trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and disturbing things start a coping with grief.|isbn=1803363932}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck Tingle|title=Camp Damascus|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to happen. Items seemingly move be confused by themselvesthis sentiment. Things breakGay conversion therapy is ongoing. People appear The UK government ruled out of nowhere. And thenplans to make it a crime and, in the attacks startUS, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Rachel Although it is petrified. Newly pregnant she is worrying for her baby’s safety as well as her own, both a secular and she has a nagging feeling religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in her stomach that his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the one person she should be able gay away'' camps to trust is show the reader the one she simply cannothorror lurking within. 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 <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hamdy1529382823|title=PhaseThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=ItCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped ) is middle-aged and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to finding his daughter and the people who abducted herNew York on ''Atlantica''. ItCaz's cost him everything - his marriagesister, his relationship with his sonGemma, his job and reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring- shaped bulge in all probability - his sanitysuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. HeThey's reached ve not been a couple for that long and the stage where - far from moving on - letting go trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is not an option and many of his actions are irrationallooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. If any part of this can It's going to be described 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 way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as having an upside humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, itusually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that Schaefer has become an expert . It is a collection of short stories more interested in finding missing peoplethe horrors of illness, particularly young adults who have become involved with cultsgrief and humiliation. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers Horrors that linger and are harder to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amberdefeat than any ''Big Bad''s abduction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=A Love Like Blood|author=Marcus Sedgwick|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=One day towards the end But of World War Twocourse, Charles Jackson he knows why. Sam is dragged an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to a museum of antiquities just outside retreat and emerging as a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimeneophyte Buddhist monk. While the other looks at Recently returning to join the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man community in a wartime bunker in the groundshis old neighbourhood, squatting over a female figure, blood on he knew his lips that could only have come from her neckline. Years later, Jackson returns past would be hard to Paris for reasons to do with his medical career, and finds the same man in the company of someone who, were escape but he only aware of the fact, is to become the first and possibly only love of his hadn't imagined it exploding into this new lifein quite such a violent fashion. But that's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>

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|title=Road of Bones|rating=43.5

|summary=People in Coventry Massachusetts get nervous when a big storm comes in. Many have never come to terms with The Kolyma Highway… the legacy 'Road of killer storm Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a dozen years beforethousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. The townspeople have For months of the year it's a sense spread of forebodingsheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, as if they realise the storm was something more than while its 'spring' sees it turn into a natural disaster. But for Jake Schapiro the storm was never an act huge blodge of Godunremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. If anything I don't think google streetview updates it was closer to an act of something pure evilvery often. Jake saw the creatures that rode the storm, Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and saw them claim his brother. He has spent twelve years wishing for another chanceother Siberian minerals, and because he is about wanted to get give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre itcovers. This storm is just as cold You can easily find documentaries about it online, just as brutal and just as deadly as the lastbut that's a bit rich, but this for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is bringing something else. Along a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the bitter winds, snow and ice, this storm will bring project to fruition to claw back some of the deadfunds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. When you lose someone you love They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the longing, or wishing for just one more day, one more hour or even company of a few minutes can be overwhelming - but there is an old saying: 'be careful what you wish forlocal beauty, you just might get itand fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472209583</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hunger (Hammer 1)Ally Wilkes|authortitle=Melvin BurgessAll the White Spaces

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt and consumed In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a ravening hunger. She puts it down chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to illness live life as his authentic self and sleepwalking at first but when true gender, without the hunger doesndisapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isn't go the only one fleeing the confines of his past and reports the shadow of the war hangs like a grave desecration surfacefuneral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, Beth has mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to admit that something sinister is afoot. Beth doesn't know it yetoverwinter on land, but she is a special personmenacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. She carries a conduit from the land If Jonathan is to make it out of the living Arctic winter alive, he will have to the land of the dead face his demons once and a newly-awakened demon wants her very much. But can Bethfor all, together with brother Louis and friends Ivan and Collor risk making the barren, defeat him? icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099576643</amazonuk>1789097835

{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Mason|title=The 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 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 her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=DecemberIf Only|author=Phil RickmanMatthew Tree

|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=On December 8thTwenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, 1980Mr Patrick, a quartet of musicians record an album in to ensure that the young man got on board the ruins of boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a haunted abbeymonthly allowance. Tragedy strikes, Patrick sent the money regularly and they split a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up, deciding never between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to work together againsay than Patrick. Fourteen years later It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, theyit was that he didn're persuaded t care to return 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 confront get the evil they discovered - but can they find a young man on his way to stop it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857896954</amazonuk>.

 {{newreview|title=Close Your Pretty Eyes|author=Sally NichollsFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Teens|summary=Olivia is trapped, in a world somewhat of her own making. She is living a life of endless switching from a set of foster parents, to would-be adoptive parents, to care homes. Whenever she fetches up with nice adults, she worries too much about making mistakes, being too violent, clumsy, needy, noisy, spiteful – and prefers then to go the whole hog and make them despair of ever liking her, of losing all kind of sympathy with her. That way she can relax, knowing the truth, knowing the hatred is there – just as it was when her alcoholic mother was abusing and abandoning her and her baby siblings. Olivia is eleven. But in this one new house, with Jim, and his children, and the fostered young-mother-of-a-babe-in-arms, something is different. Something is definitely older than Olivia, and certainly more evil, and most assuredly better at getting its own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1787301435|title=ZOM-B BabyDark Waters|author=Darren ShanG R Halliday

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=WARNING! If you havenTwenty-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 read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|a conventional hospital. She'd made her first book]] in this seriesmistake some time ago, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Gone? Goodalthough 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. The story so far|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077686</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Skull in the WoodsGrady Hendrix|authortitle=Sandra GreavesThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=45|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Dartmoor wasn't exactly Matt's first choice as a place to spend his school holidays. He barely knows his Uncle or cousins Women, by and there was obviously some bad blood between members of large, have always been the familysubjugated sex. But his father was away for Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the summer, as were most of his friends powerful man and he couldn't let nothing stand another day in the house with his motherway. Grady Hendrix's new boyfriend, especially as their relationship was dashing any hopes Matt might have held of his parents ever reuniting. But whatever the trouble may have been between Mattnovel ''The Southern Book Club's mother and his now dead Aunt Rose, his Uncle Jack has welcomed Matt into his home and treated the boy with all the kindness one might expect for a prodigal sonGuide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. His youngest cousin Kitty seems delighted It is an ode to have a new member of the family strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to play toe with as well, but Tilda, a predatory male vampire who is near his own age can't stand him and is determined moves in to have this interloping city dweller out of the way as quickly as possible. Matt treats Tilda with same contempt, with the two children carrying on where their feuding parents left offquiet cul de sac.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908435623</amazonuk>1683691431

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry1529009677|title=Fire & AshA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books 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 Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewcar rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. So if you haven Tom can't read 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 othersfamily home, get thee over but stresses to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Men Stood TogetherStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|authortitle=Chris PriestleyOrphans of the Tide

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A young boy lives in a harbour town with his mother. It's a happy lifeIn the last city on Earth, but anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the boy misses his father, a sailor world - who left for has come to wreak havoc on the sea last of humanity. When a year ago and died far mysterious boy is pulled from home. He also dreams the corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the sea and of adventureVessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. So when his uncle comes As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to visit, full of stories of faraway lands and treasureexecute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is entrancedinnocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets. He ignores the warning from the pilot's son. How could his uncle be the devil? And, despite his mother's tears, he follows his uncle to sea. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>0241384435

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789090873|title=Dead BrigadeDread Nation|author=James LovegroveJustina Ireland

|summary=Max Long is a semi-successful author and has had seven novels published, none of which were bestsellers. Max is unsatisfied with ''Two days after I was born … the critical dead rose up and sales responses for his books and is determined started to write walk on a story that will rocket him to stardom and the bestseller list. Burnt Island is battlefield in a remote rocky outpost small town in the ocean that he believes will inspire him to write a novel for the masses. He lodges with another author on the island and although meaning to concentrate on his writing he is distracted by the people and the creepy atmosphere of the isle. Something is not at all what it seems on Burnt Island, but is it of MaxPennsylvania called Gettysburg ''s creation or something that was already waiting for him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773487</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Stephen Lloyd Jones|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life blood slowly seeps out of himJane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. They run to escape An event which is interrupting the civil war between the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generationsstates altered American history forever. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but In the changing world, 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 Wildes it's real dead once and insatiable for all. For Jane and won't forget themother girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. They know what to do: verify everyone, trust no one With deadly capabilities andperfect etiquette, if attendants protect those higher in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enoughsociety and are valued above all else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Hill1471407764|title=NOS-4R2The Twisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge

|summary=Vic McQueen Martha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a talent for finding thingsdisturbing gift. Her little Raleigh bicycle She can take her over a seemingly demolished bridge near her home and takes her to places where lost items have come out. Over read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the yearsweave, revealing insights she has built up stories in her head as to how she found these itemsdoesn't really want, but as and knowledge she gets older, she becomes more and more unable doesn't understand. She flees to find herself. One day, she takes her bridge to a place where she finds Charles Talent Manx IIIgrandmother, a man who has a similar talentMormor's cabin, but uses it seeking answers no one is prepared to take children out give and stumbles into a world of the world, rather than bringing lost things back into itmenace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575130679</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Wooding1788950720|title=Silver|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary='Silver' has a large ant with silver circuits on the cover, and while there are no actual ants in this book, the illustration is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpses, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machines. They possess a swarm intelligence similar to ants. This sounds far fetched but a great deal of progress has been made in research currently being conducted with just this in mind - to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon well known in the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism is capable of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mind. It would be impossible for scientists to control hundreds or thousands of nanobots independently - so the idea is to control a few and have these control the rest. Of course there would always be safeguards on this type of technology and there were safeguards in the book as well - they just didn't work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWhiteout (Red Eye)|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B AngelsGabriel Dylan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm going to do this for all books in this series except the first one. Before we begin. If you haven't read the 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>0857077643</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lily Herne|title=Deadlands|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I was hesitant to choose this book. I love a good dystopian future book. The problem is, I don't define very many of them as good. I have read far too many zombie books that really don't offer anything different, plenty of blood, gore, and damsels in distress, but not enough character development, or logical thought. Psychological horror can be ever so much more chilling than blood and guts, but it is also much more difficult to pull off. Sarah and Savannah Lotz, the mother and daughter team who have written this book under the pen name Lily Herne, have managed to do this perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Through Dead Eyes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After an unfortunate episode at school, Alex has joined his father on a business trip to Amsterdam. He had been hoping to spend some time with his father, but instead he is palmed off on Angelien, daughter of his father's new girlfriend. But Angelien is pretty and so Alex is quite happy to be shown around by her. When her boyfriend Dirk isn't around, that is. At an antique market, Alex finds himself drawn to an ancient-looking mask. He can't help but buy it. And once bought, he can't help but put it on. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shaun Hutson|title=The Revenge of Frankenstein|rating=4

|summary=Imprisoned and sentenced to death Are you up for the crimes he feels were caused by his creation and not his drive to bend the reach and morals of medical science, Doctor Frankenstein is given a way out of the guillotine's graspsleepless night or two? If so, and gains a loyal adherent in the misshapen form of Carl. They move read on to work together at a charitable hospital, which serves merely as a front for the Doctor's usual experiments, transplanting body organs, reviving corpses or bits thereof, and bringing new forms of life to the world. Cue yet another problematic creation, with an unfortunate way of leaving a trail of violence and vehemence, but with another innocent female to tender him, in this respectful and intelligent sequel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556235</amazonuk>}}!

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

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

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

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

|summary=There are strange goings on at Comraich CastleTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, with for the Youtube era. Join the normal poltergeist type activities intrepid (if rather inept) team of cold spots in rooms and the lights inexplicably dimming having escalated into a resident being found pinned internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to the wall (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of his room being scared by his their own blood acting, Derek Acorah and innardsYvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. David Ash is sent Deep in to investigate, but he is warned that he must work alone and a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in secrecy, as whilst some a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the residents of Comraich Castle are not ghosts, they are considered long dead by the outside world and that world must never know of their continued existenceblend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706959</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cherie Priest1683690122|title=Eden Moore – Not Flesh Nor FeathersWe Sold Our Souls|author=Grady Hendrix

|summary=A year has passed since medium Eden Moore's brush with the [[Eden Moore - Wings to the Kingdom by Cherie Priest|ghostly battlefields]] and she's certainly come The night manager of a long way since the [[Eden Moore – Four Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest|first time]] we encountered unhappy. Few know of her. Shepast as guitarist of 90's learnt Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a lot from media celebrity Dana Marshallband once tipped for greatness, is nearly 25 and has decided it's time but destined to move out of Aunt Lu and Uncle David's place. She even has her eye obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on an apartment in a downtown block by the river. Howeversolo career, some things donrocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''t change. The Read House When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is being renovated forced to look back to combine a hotel past she has tried to forget – and Starbucks but one room remains untouched due to paranormal activitya deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the band. EdenIn a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, she's TV journalist friend Nick calls her in determined to communicate with face the ghost, a young girl man who isn't satisfied ruined her life. But with scary noises dark forces rising and shifting ornaments. Within moments of entering Eden is trapped as the phantom attempts threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to tear her limb from limb mumbling about how 'they' are coming for her. Who are 'they'? Why are people disappearing near defeat the riverodds? Chattanooga Or will soon find out as it's about to flood and in Hell truly be unleashed on the mud something stirs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687743</amazonuk>Earth…?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillETDWB|title=Even The Man in the PictureDead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez|rating=4.5

|summary=There is a theory regarding ghosts that they are projected recordings from In the very brickwork third and final part of buildings – that the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'stone tapes' can replay scenes or characters series, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the events of heightened emotion so that people can see book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the vestige of what went beforesecret testing facility. What if something As events come to a bit more animated than climax, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a building – a lively, realistic oil painting – can also convey collected recorded instances group of such strong feelings - feelings such as mortal terror? It would be like Dorian Gray's portraitscientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, recording all the horrors, keeping them intact in one place stakes are higher than ever before – but would will Dave make it be the cause or the effectout of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685443</amazonuk>

{{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' Move on the cover… We do seem to be in the territory of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in BlackNewest Humour Reviews]], but worry not – this new short genre novel is a very different beast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>}}