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August 13, 2014
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4 mins to read
“A consummately told and brilliantly original story.” Before the age of modern medicine, insanity was viewed like any other illness – not as something internal but as a malady that could infect you from outside. Richard Farren Barber takes this idea and gives it a modern, post-apocalyptic twist in his tremendous new novella The Sleeping Dead. The …
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August 12, 2014
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… We Will All Go Down Together by Gemma Files “With a plot spanning centuries and a large cast of misfits and monsters, We Will All Go Down Together promises to be an enthralling read.” In the woods outside Overdeere, Ontario, there are trees that speak, a village that doesn’t appear on any …
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August 5, 2014
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Blackout by Tim Curran “This time it really is the beginning of something hellish…” In the midst of a beautiful summer, in a perfectly American suburban middle-class neighbourhood, a faraway evil is lurking, waiting to strike the unsuspecting residents. First come the flashing lights, then the heavy rains, high winds, and finally a …
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July 29, 2014
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Strange Gateways by Simon Kurt Unsworth “Strange Gateways looks set to confirm Unsworth’s place at the top table of British horror fiction.” In this, the third collection of horror fiction from Simon Kurt Unsworth, you will find tales of words that can corrupt a world, of hotels that are not what they seem, …
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July 22, 2014
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Blow Up & Other Stories by Julio Cortazar “Full of tales that you’ll want to read again and again to appreciate their nuances and strangeness.” A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams… A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is …
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July 17, 2014
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Drive by Mark West ” A novella infused with the tension and fear of late night Britain.” When David sees Nat alone, late at night, she accepts his offer of a lift home. But, the streets at night are also alive with a gang intent on hurt and mayhem. A gritty crime …
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July 8, 2014
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Written With My Left Hand by Nugent Barker “Ghost stories equal to Walter de la Mare” Perhaps best known for two much admired tales, the evocative ghost story ‘Whessoe’ and the grimly humorous horror tour de force ‘Curious Adventure of Mr Bond’, Nugent Barker (1888-1955) remains something of an enigma. Although rated …
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July 1, 2014
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick “ A mixture of old school episodic storytelling and modern techniques reminiscent of found-footage films.” “There’s a place, out in North Wales, where things have happened. Bad things, strange things. Dark things. At the heart of it there’s a mountain, and they call it Mynydd Du: Black …
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June 24, 2014
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle “Mixes gritty modern crime fiction with the fey and supernatural!” When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue …
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June 18, 2014
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti “One of the best horror writers we have is back.” Throughout Ligotti’s ‘career’ as a horror writer, many of his stories have evolved from physical or emotional crises. And so it was with the surgical trauma that led to the stories in The Spectral Link, an …
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