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Book Review: One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning by David Moody

  • April 4, 2018

  • 5 mins to read

One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning by David Moody - cover

“Moody has created a brilliantly tense novel that, while sharing DNA with John Carpenter’s seminal The Thing in that it’s effectively a single location exercise in paranoia and mistrust, is very much its own tale.”   Ever since the first Autumn novel appeared online way back in 2001, David Moody has steadily and decisively become …

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Look Out For … The Plague by Kevin Chong

  • March 29, 2018

  • 2 mins to read

The Plague by Kevin Chong - cover

“Exploring the themes in Camus’ original story,  Chong thrusts his characters into the current political and cultural arena with exciting results.”   It started with the rats dying in record numbers. Then other small animals began to die. When people start suffering from flu-like symptoms, they know something is wrong. Dr Bernard Rieux desperately searches …

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Book Review: Winter Holiday by Chad A. Clark

  • March 28, 2018

  • 5 mins to read

Winter Holiday by Chad A. Clark - cover

“Winter Holiday is a fast-paced, satisfying read which recalls those classic stories from horror’s heyday yet also has a modern sensibility.”   Dark Minds Press is a small UK outfit run by Ross Warren and Anthony Watson who have, since their inception only a few years ago, put out some excellent anthologies, collections, and novellas. …

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Look Out For … Figures Unseen by Steve Rasnic Tem

  • March 22, 2018

  • 2 mins to read

Figures Unseen by Steve Rasnic Tem - cover

“Tem has this powerful ability to blend genres seamlessly while engaging the reader at a personal level with stories unlike anything you’ve ever read.”   A father and son go on a strange downtown “fishing” trip, suburban backyard nightmare fuel with skinned rabbits, a young boy cannot escape his bad dreams of trees and his …

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