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Book Review: Sacculina by Philip Fracassi

  • May 8, 2017

  • 4 mins to read

Sacculina by Philip Fracassi - cover

“Fracassi sets the hook into a reader’s imagination, and as he reels the reader in through creeping dread and all-too possible darkness, you’ll soon understand that there is no escape.” In his latest novella, Sacculina, rising author Philip Fracassi lures readers out into the middle of the ocean and does what he does best–scares the …

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Book Review: Bleed by Ed Kurtz

  • May 5, 2017

  • 4 mins to read

Bleed by Ed Kurtz - cover

“Bleed is a nostalgic nod to 1980s horror viewed through a prism of twenty first century ideas that drag the reader into the pages like a fly into a spider’s web.” Bleed begins with a tone edging towards folksy American, almost Stephen King like horror. A couple figuring out life in the sticks, a new …

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Book Review: We Came Back by Patrick Lacey

  • May 2, 2017

  • 5 mins to read

We Came Back by Patrick Lacey - cover

“We Came Back is another step in the right direction for Lacey’s writing career and we look forward to visiting his sinister imagination again in the future.”   Patrick Lacey is a relative newcomer to the world of publishing and the horror genre. Although he has admitted to writing over one hundred short stories and …

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Book Review: The Boy in the Earth by Fuminori Nakamura

  • April 26, 2017

  • 5 mins to read

The Boy in the Earth byFuminori Nakamura - cover

“If this review had a title, it would be “Zen and the Art of Noir”. And the Zen master, the true Buddha of Noir, is the dark genius that is Fuminori Nakamura.” If we had a list of modern masters of noir fiction, and if it were possible—it isn’t—to place someone at the very top …

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