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April 19, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The Doll Master & Other Tales Of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates “The tight, controlled prose makes the emerging dread in these stories the more profound.” Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But …
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April 12, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories by Joan Aiken “Written a constantly engaging and evocative style, full of twists, turns and note-perfect endings.” Here is the whisper in the night, the dog whose loyalty outlasted death, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won’t let you sleep, the sound …
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March 29, 2016
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Fellside by M.R. Carey “Fellside is a compelling mixture of the ghostly and grim reality.” A haunting and heart-breaking new thriller from the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. It’s not the kind of …
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March 22, 2016
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Woman In White by Kristin Dearborn “Woman In White is a gripping thriller with a hideous monster at the heart of it.” As a fierce snowstorm descends upon the sleepy little town, a Good Samaritan stops to help a catatonic woman sitting in the middle of the icy road, and is never …
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March 8, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor LaValle “Scary, unpredictable and wonderfully evocative of the grimier side of the Jazz Age.” People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his …
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March 1, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen “Machen wrote works where the supernatural was as much spiritual as scary, in doing so producing a wholly distinctive body of work.” The Cosy Room and Other Stories is a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth (aka Fytton Armstrong) …
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February 23, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The Complete Double Dead by Chuck Wendig “Double Dead and its sequel are irreverent, gory, and very humorous.” A vampire in zombieland. You wouldn’t like Coburn. People don’t, as a rule. And that’s okay, because he doesn’t like people much either. People are food. Five years ago, Coburn went to sleep–wasn’t exactly …
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February 16, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Ecstatic Inferno by Autumn Christian “Reality in Ecstatic Inferno is malleable, with the ghost of Philip K. Dick never far away.” WARNING: THIS BOOK IS A PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE. From the moment you start to turn the pages, it will soak into your central nervous system, subtly and subversively reprogramming you at the DNA level. Each of …
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February 2, 2016
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Furnace by Livia Llewellyn “Livia Llewellyn’s stories generate an almost visceral sense of unease.” Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes, few authors manage …
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January 19, 2016
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Ride The Dark Country by Benedict Jones “Ride The Dark Country presents stories of the Wild West filtered through a horror lens.” Ride The Dark Country is the new collection from Benedict J Jones, author of Pennies for Charon and Slaughter Beach. In these tales you’ll find cowboys and mountain men, ranchers …
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