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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=The Strain Book OneMidnight Feast|author=Guillermo del ToroLucy Foley|rating=4.5|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, Chuck HoganOwen, David Lapham was the architect and Dan Jacksonwork 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

|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=A liner ends its journey from Europe in Ford and Neuland are a port citycouple of, and waitswell, silentlyguys for hire I guess, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of life. strange detectives! It One of them is found to contain a heavy boxliving, almost coffin-likeyou see, containing mud – and something else. But this the other is not undead, and so one of them kills the coasts of Englandliving, and this is the other kills the undead. (Only not Bram Stokereach other, obviously). This is also not They're on a sailing boatjob in New York that goes badly, but an airliner – and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a Boeing 777, stuck at JFK airport with no signs of life. The CDC while and one man – Dr Ephraim Goodweather – are tasked with looking into itfind some other work to keep them going. But he wonwhen a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 't like what he finds – and nor should anyone. The problem is, some something'that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman'do…'s house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>1803363894

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RemainingRachel Harrison|authortitle=D J MollesBad Dolls

|genre=HorrorShort Stories|summary=When reading ‘The Remaining’ by It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a warm feeling insidecouple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, not due borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the psychological terror in point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the bookvampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, but because and I didn't have to read it seems that I am not the during daylight hours only person who is prepared for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. ! No more an illustrious group than the US Army itself But it is prepared. In each creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the mainland States of America fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a trained soldier is moved underground whenever breakup, trying a potential disaster is on the horizon. Captain Lee Harden has found himself in his bunker several timesnew dieting app, but has always climbed out again going to a few days later, until nowhen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503453</amazonuk>1803363932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Sentinel1803365110|author=Joshua WinningChuck Tingle|title=Camp Damascus

|summary=In many ways Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this book sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is not as typical of fantasy ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime and mild horror as , in the summary might suggestUS, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Unlike Although it is both a secular and a lot religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of stories where we join Christian ''pray the main character in gay away'' camps to show the reader the aftermath of a major event, this one begins before Nicholas is orphanedhorror lurking within. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The everLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-increasing tension as his parents leave for aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a train journeycruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, coming so soon after a menacing and mysterious prologueGemma, makes it pretty clear reckons that Pete is going to us that they wonpropose but Caz hasn't be returning, 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 Nicholas long and the trip will soon be in deadly danger himselfan excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk> It's going to be good, isn't it?

 {{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=The Quickening1803363002|author=Julie MyersonEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=Rachel Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and Dan are on holiday in the Caribbeanprocess them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, but soon after they arrive on the island of Antigua odd it usually something tangible and disturbing things start to happen. Items seemingly move , by themselves. Things break. People appear out the end of nowhere. And thenthe story, the attacks startbeatable. Rachel Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is petrifiednot like that. Newly pregnant she It is worrying for her baby’s safety as well as her own, and she has a nagging feeling collection of short stories more interested in her stomach that the one person she should be able to trust is the one she simply cannothorrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Dan is acting strangely Horrors that linger and though she begs him are harder to let them go home early, he plays down her fearsdefeat than any ''Big Bad''. Why won’t he believe what she’s saying, and take her seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580241</amazonuk>

 {{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Adam HamdyB0BHR8KWSK|title=PhaseDukkha|author=Martin Hyde

|genre=ThrillersHorror|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life to finding his daughter and the people who abducted herSam wakes up chained in a basement. It's cost him everything - his marriage, his relationship with his son, He rails against his job captor and - in all probability - his sanity. He's reached the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is not an option and many injustice of his actions are irrational. If any part of this can be described as having an upside itimprisonment? Why? ''Why?'s that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amber'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 in the Rot & Ruin series Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are scattered throughout this reviewhaving problems. So if you haven It't read s not just the othersusual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Dead Men Stood Together|author=Chris Priestley|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A young boy lives Michael, was killed in a harbour town with car crash some months before: he was driving his mother. Itfather's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a happy lifetree, but the boy misses he also killed his fathergirlfriend, a sailor who left for the sea a fifteen-year ago and died far from home-old Fiona Connor. He also dreams Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of the sea shame and of adventureguilt. So when his uncle comes Rachel is broken, but she wants to visit, full of stories of faraway lands and treasureforgive Michael. To give some space, he is entranced. He ignores the warning from the pilotTom's son. How could his uncle be moved out of the devil? Andfamily home, despite but stresses to his mother's tearsthirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, he follows his uncle to seathat it is only a trial separation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead BrigadeStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|authortitle=James LovegroveOrphans of the Tide

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at a standstill in In the years since he launched a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in last city on Earth, anyone can be the massacre vessel of British soldiers. Now that same officer is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - because they are already dead. Hammond who has been given come to wreak havoc on the task last of training humanity. When a crack squad mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of reanimated soldiersa whale, immune the citizens immediately believe him to painbe the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, disease and capable of fighting with massive injuriesa girl inventor. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learning, following instructions, and meant As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to be incapable of independent thought. Howeverexecute the boy, it soon becomes apparent Ellie must prove that things don't always go the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part of them he is still humaninnocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, still the soldier they once were, trapped within a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for the next missiondarkest secrets.. They have no life, nor do they have the luxury of death.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>0241384435

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Gordon Smith1789090873|title=The Fury: The Director's CutDread Nation|author=Justina 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>}}