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[[Category:New Reviews|Horror]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughMariana Enriquez|title=The Death HouseA Sunny Place for Shady People

|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=Toby would appear to be luckyMariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, having the run of achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an isolated country mansion on a small island off the coast abandoned field full of Britain. But no. His domain only exists at night, and only then because he sleeps in the day and refuses disused refrigerators due to take the 'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an evening. He is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite illurban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and being the cause of the nighta crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine -time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatoriumall within Argentina. But Toby has it good as these things go, the teenaged head boy almost out The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the small collection of children in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a loss of lifesimilarly tangible texture. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numbers, and one of them, Clara, is the agent of that change. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>1803511230

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Simon Kurt Unsworth Lucy 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, 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's Detective |rating=2.54

|summary=There Ford and Neuland are some obvious things in life (a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and death)the other is undead, but and so one of them kills the most clear is that Hell will be Hellishliving, and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). This is They're on a place job in New York that sinners go goes badly, and so they head out to the West coast to be punished. However, try to lay low for every Dante’s Inferno, there is a depiction of hell that is not so badwhile and find some other work to keep them going. Who really wants But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to read something depressing about kill the desolation of souls, apart from those pesky 14th Century types? According to 'something'The Devil’s Detectivethat appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they', people in the 21st Century do too.ve never come across before!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195651X</amazonuk>1803363894

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanRachel Harrison|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)Bad Dolls

|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNINGIt'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 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! If you haven 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 [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in this seriespart, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|isbn=1803363932}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck Tingle|title=Camp Damascus|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>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 crime and, in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both a secular and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to show the reader the horror lurking within.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=Frozen CharlotteThe Last Passenger|author=Alex BellWill Dean|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=When Sophie Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and Jay play around has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a ouija board app cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Jay has downloaded Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his phone, things go awfully wrongsuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Sophie asks They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to speak get to Rebeccaknow him a bit better. Meanwhile, a cousin of hers Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who died in mysterious circumstanceshas dementia. But what Rebecca has It's going to say is not be good. And that very night, Jay drowns in the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accident. Or was isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewfrontpage|titleisbn=Jekyll's Mirror1803363002|author=William HusseyEric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=45|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Sam Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is doing his best but he feels the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother used as a way to death, wouldn't you? He tries to concentrate on schoolwork reflect our darkest emotions and his art how we as humans react and keep process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that anger locked away deep down insideis a home invader, a monster or a ghost, but itusually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not easylike that. His aunt Cora does her best to support him but his uncle Lionel It is distrustfula collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, sure grief and humiliation. Horrors that the (violent) apple in Sam hasnlinger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad't fallen far from (his father's) tree.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jesse Bullington (editor)B0BHR8KWSK|title=Letters to Lovecraft : Eighteen Whispers to the DarknessDukkha|author=Martin Hyde

|summary=Howard Phillips Lovecraft was, to me, Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and the author injustice of ruinously mediocre post-Victorian penny dreadful horror fiction, concerning far too numerous many-tentacled, secretly-worshipped, extra-dimensional monster threats to mankind for his – and our – own good. Itimprisonment? Why? ''Why?''s little wonder that he lived and died in poverty, and only became of note posthumously. That note seems to be building, however, hence this collection of stories by many award-winning modern writers of the dark and macabre, all looking back yet going much further, and pretty much all providing us with a showcase for their own, contemporary talent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908983108</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Lynne Truss|title=Cat out But of Hell|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. He's retired and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories of his colleague wife, now that she has died before her time. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked atcourse, just before he leftknows why. Bizarrely they show photographic Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and audio evidence of a talking cat called Roger, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged dirty life by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cat. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most only going to a few of the characters can, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual retreat and unexpected death – much like Alec's wifeemerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. It's only when Roger testifies Recently returning to having been pushed through join the ends of endurance and out the other side that we begin community in his old neighbourhood, he knew his past would be hard to doubt where the true evil escape but he hadn't imagined it exploding into this new life in this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>quite such a violent fashion.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin Ince and Johnny Mains (editors)Christopher Golden|title=Dead FunnyRoad of Bones|rating=43.5

|summary=In a world The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of nightmares, disasters, death and ignominy there is a book called ''Dead Funny'Bones'… the R504. Invented purely to satisfy the remit built into its title Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it collects some horror stories written by comedians, both household names and those more up-and-coming's one of the world's most notorious routes. Like all horror books For months of the year it comes out at the time 's a spread of year best suited for horror – Halloween, when we read with sheet ice suspended above the darkest corners in our roomspermafrost surrounding it, with the longest evenings outside – but is only suited for Halloween because while its 'spring' sees it is turn into a worthlesshuge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, hellish piece of drosspuddly dust. It never excites, I don't think google streetview updates it is the most self-serving vanity projectvery often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and the only funny thing about because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it is that some idiot ever decided legendarily cost a life every metre it was worth publishingcovers. Now I know you knowYou can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, courtesy for one of those bright shiny stars alongside this reviewour main characters, that this volumeFelix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, Dead Funnydoing a recce with his cameraman buddy, is not John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'thatd invested in the pair'' Dead Funnys prior TV projects. But just bear in mind the horror story this could have been, if these pages were not They pick up their oh-so surprisingly adept at taking those said nightmares-chatty local guide, disastersgain the company of a local beauty, deaths and ignominy and presenting them fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to us so competently.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773762</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesAlly Wilkes|authortitle=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasAll the White Spaces

|summary=Susan Hill is In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by far the master of the old fashioned ghost story. If you've ever read or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], then you’ll already know that, but her other ghost stories are a little less famousAustralis Randall. That doesn’t make them any less goodFor Jonathan, and I for one am this adventure represents a big fan. I think there’s a lot to be said chance for a good old fashioned scarefresh start, with apparitionsand the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, goosebumps without the disapproval and cold chills up constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the spine. I always feel confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like I should be reading these books around a campfirefuneral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, wrapped in a blanket mistrust and grief stalk the party and eating marshmallows because it very much reminds me of sharing ghost stories with my friends , when I was disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a childmenacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. What I like If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to call a ‘proper scare’face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178125365X</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The QuickAmanda Mason|authortitle=Lauren OwenThe Hiding Place

|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=The Quick is the debut of author Lauren OwenNeeding an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and set in stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the gothic world name of Victorian LondonElder House. Owen guides us through She hopes that it will be the lives of several charactersperfect 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, but specifically James and CharlotteMr Patrick, siblings living in a Yorkshire mansion. Left to fend for themselves due ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a dead mother monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and an absent father, a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two grow up close, playing dark games although we hear more about what Lowry has to pass the timesay than Patrick. It is only when Jameswasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, the younger child, moves it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to London, that the games become very real indeed, his wife and both brother and sister must fight other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to save not just themselves, but their humanityget the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569973</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787301435|title=The Strain Book OneDark Waters|author=Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham and Dan JacksonG R Halliday

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=A liner ends its journey from Europe Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in a port city, and waits, silently, holding whatever secrets it had with little signs of lifeGlen Turrit. It is found to contain was a heavy box, almost coffinlong road through some breath-like, containing mud – taking scenery and something elseshe could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. But this is not When the coasts blond child stepped out in front of England, her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and this is not Bram Stokerhit a tree. This is also not a sailing boatWhen she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but an airliner – it obviously wasn't a Boeing 777, stuck at JFK airport with no signs of lifeconventional hospital. The CDC and one man – Dr Ephraim Goodweather – are tasked with looking into it. But he wonShe'd made her first mistake some time ago, although the realisation wouldn't like what he finds – and nor should anyonebe obvious to her for a long time. The problem is, some She''do…''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616555483</amazonuk>d made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RemainingGrady Hendrix|authortitle=D J MollesThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=45|genre=Horror|summary=When reading ‘The Remaining’ Women, by I had a warm feeling insideand large, not due have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the psychological terror powerful man and let nothing stand in the book, but because it seems that I am not the only person who his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is prepared for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. No more an illustrious group than ode to the US Army itself is preparedstrong selfless housewife. In each of the mainland States of America Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a trained soldier is moved underground whenever a potential disaster is on the horizon. Captain Lee Harden has found himself predatory male vampire who moves in his bunker several times, but has always climbed out again a few days later, until nowto their quiet cul de sac.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503453</amazonuk>1683691431

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529009677|title=SentinelA Window Breaks|author=Joshua WinningC M Ewan

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=In many ways this book is Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not as typical of fantasy and mild horror as just the summary might suggest. Unlike usual growing apart after more than a lot decade of stories where we join the main character 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 aftermath of car rammed into a major eventtree, this one begins before Nicholas is orphaned. The ever-increasing tension as but he also killed his parents leave for a train journeygirlfriend, coming so soon after fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a menacing sense of shame and mysterious prologueguilt. Rachel is broken, makes it pretty clear but she wants to us that they wonforgive Michael. To give some space, Tom't be returnings moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himselfit is only a trial separation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The QuickeningStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|authortitle=Julie MyersonOrphans of the Tide|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Rachel and Dan are In the last city on holiday in Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the Caribbean, but soon after they arrive god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the island last of Antigua odd and disturbing things start to happenhumanity. Items seemingly move by themselves. Things break. People appear out When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of nowhere. And thena whale, the attacks start. Rachel is petrified. Newly pregnant she is worrying citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for her baby’s safety as well as her ownyoung Ellie Lancaster, and she has a nagging feeling in her stomach that girl inventor. As the one person she should be able ruthless Inquisition prepares to trust is execute the one she simply cannot. Dan is acting strangely and though she begs him to let them go home earlyboy, Ellie must prove that he plays down is innocent - even if it means revealing her fearsdeepest, darkest secrets... Why won’t he believe what she’s saying, and take her seriously?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580241</amazonuk>0241384435

{{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->|author=Adam Hamdy|title=Phase|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life born days before the dead began to finding his daughter and walk the streets. An event which is interrupting the civil war between the people who abducted herstates altered American history forever. It's cost him everything - his marriageIn the changing world, his relationship with his son, his job 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 dead once and for all probability - his sanity. He's reached For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is not opportunity for a better life by being employed as an option attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and many of his actions are irrational. If any part of this can be described as having an upside it'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 abductionvalued above all else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471407764|title=A Love Like BloodThe Twisted Tree|author=Marcus SedgwickRachel Burge|rating=4.5

|summary=One day towards the end of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged to a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimeMartha's world has changed. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man Blind in one eye after falling from a wartime bunker in the groundstree, squatting over she wakes with a female figuredisturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, blood on his lips that could only have come secrets tumble from her neckline. Years laterthe weave, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons to do with his medical careerrevealing insights she doesn't really want, and finds the same man in the company of someone whoknowledge she doesn't understand. She flees to her grandmother, were he only aware of the factMormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to become the first give and possibly only love stumbles into a world of his lifemenace. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788950720|title=SnowblindWhiteout (Red Eye)|author=Christopher GoldenGabriel Dylan

|summary=People in Coventry Massachusetts get nervous when a big storm comes in. Many have never come to terms with the legacy of killer storm a dozen years before. The townspeople have a sense of foreboding, as if they realise the storm was something more than a natural disaster. But for Jake Schapiro the storm was never an act of God. If anything it was closer to an act of something pure evil. Jake saw the creatures that rode the storm, and saw them claim his brother. He has spent twelve years wishing for another chance, and he is about to get it. This storm is just as cold, just as brutal and just as deadly as the last, but this one is bringing something else. Along with the bitter winds, snow and ice, this storm will bring back the dead. When Are you lose someone you love, the longing, or wishing up for just one more day, one more hour a sleepless night or even a few minutes can be overwhelming - but there is an old saying: 'be careful what you wish fortwo? If so, you just might get it'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472209583</amazonuk>}}read on!

{{newreview|title=Hunger (Hammer 1)|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Beth wakes up one morning covered Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in dirt the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and consumed he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a ravening hunger. She puts it down safe thing to illness and sleepwalking at first but when the hunger doesndo if you't go re staying in a ski resort - and reports this is what brings him into contact with one of a grave desecration surfacethe ski guides, Beth has to admit that something sinister is afootHanna. Beth Hanna herself doesn't know it yet, but she is a special person. She carries a conduit from have the land of the living to the land of the dead happiest backstory and this forms a newly-awakened demon wants her very muchconnection between them. But can Beth, together with brother Louis and friends Ivan and Coll, defeat him? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099576643</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=9386897385|title=DecemberNothing Lasting|author=Phil RickmanLaura Solomon|rating=43.5

|summary=On December 8thWe never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, 1980not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a quartet couple of musicians record an album years in the ruins of a haunted abbey. Tragedy strikesmental hospital, and they split up, deciding never but mainly because her ghost continues to work together againhaunt Boyo. Fourteen years later, they're persuaded She wants him to return to confront the evil they discovered - but can they find achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a way to stop it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857896954</amazonuk>famous arsonist.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1538761858|title=Close Your Pretty EyesThe Anomaly|author=Sally NichollsMichael Rutger

|genre=TeensHorror|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 wouldTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-be adoptive parentsFiles episode, to care homesfor the Youtube era. 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 Join the whole hog and make them despair intrepid (if rather inept) team 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 internet adventurers as it was when her alcoholic mother was abusing and abandoning her and her baby siblings. Olivia is eleventhey head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. But in this one new houseImagine if, with Jim, and his childreninstead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and the fostered young-mother-of-a-babe-in-arms, Yvette Fielding actually found something ; that 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>}} {{newreview|title=ZOM-B Baby|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first starting point of this book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Gone? Good. The story so far|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077686</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Skull Deep in the Woods|author=Sandra Greaves|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Dartmoor wasn't exactly Matt's first choice as a place to spend his school holidays. He barely knows his Uncle or cousins, and there was obviously some bad blood between members of cave within the family. But his father was away for the summer, as were most Grand Canyon our team of his friends and he couldn't stand another day adventurers find themselves trapped in the house a Stephen King plot with his mother's new boyfriend, especially as their relationship was dashing any hopes Matt might have held added levels of his parents ever reuniting. But whatever the trouble may have been between Matt's mother paranoia and his now dead Aunt Rose, his Uncle Jack has welcomed Matt conspiracy thrown into his home and treated the boy with all the kindness one might expect for a prodigal sonblend. His youngest cousin Kitty seems delighted to have a new member of the family to play with as well, but Tilda, who is near his own age can't stand him and is determined 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 off.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908435623</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry1683690122|title=Fire & AshWe Sold Our Souls|author=Grady Hendrix

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=ALERT! Spoilers The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for early books in greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewband. So if you havenIn a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, she't read s determined to face the othersman who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, get thee over will Kris be able to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=ETDWB|title=Even The Dead Men Stood TogetherWill Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Chris PriestleySteven Ramirez|rating=4.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=A young boy lives in a harbour town with his mother. ItIn the third and final part of the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead''s a happy lifeseries, but Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the boy misses his fatherevents of book two still weighing heavily on Dave, a sailor who left for he struggles against the sea rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a year ago and died far young escapee from home. He also dreams of the sea and of adventuresecret testing facility. So when his uncle comes As events come to visita climax, full and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of stories of faraway lands and treasurescientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, he is entranced. He ignores the warning from the pilot's son. How could his uncle be the devilstakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And, despite his mother's tears, what kind of world will he follows his uncle to sea. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>have left?

{{newreview|title=Dead Brigade|author=James Lovegrove|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at a standstill in the years since he launched a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in the massacre 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 - because they are already dead. Hammond has been given the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiers, immune to pain, disease and capable of fighting with massive injuries. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learning, following instructions, and meant to be incapable of independent thought. However, it soon becomes apparent that things don't always go the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part of them is still human, still the soldier they once were, trapped within a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for the next mission. They have no life, nor do they have the luxury of death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=The Fury: The Director's Cut|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't what I was expecting at all. The official press release describes the Fury as ''a zombie book without zombies''. This book has several things in common with the zombie genre; a group of survivors, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie book, those affected by the fury are not the mindless living dead. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with one exception. When they get near one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apart, and everyone Move on the planet, other than a very small group is affected. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything to destroy them. After they have killed them, they will go back to their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least for now. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alice Thompson|title=Burnt Island|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Max Long is a semi-successful author and has had seven novels published, none of which were bestsellers. Max is unsatisfied with the critical and sales responses for his books and is determined to write a story that will rocket him to stardom and the bestseller list. Burnt Island is a remote rocky outpost 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 Max's creation or something that was already waiting for him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773487</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Humour Reviews]]