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January 12, 2016
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… The Last Weekend by Nick Mamatas “The Last Weekend is a typically riotous and inventive mix of the undead, dystopian fiction and paranoid conspiracy.” Vasilis “Billy” Kostopolos is a Bay Area Rust Belt refugee, failed sci-fi writer, successful barfly and, since the exceptionally American zombie apocalypse, an accomplished “driller” of reanimated corpses. …
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January 5, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Can & Can’tankerous by Harlan Ellison “Ellison’s stories provide a skewed and indignant view on our own world and its foibles.” Harlan Ellison has been compared to an annoying gnat, a no-see ’em buzzing in your peripheral vision till you try to swat him, and he’s gone. Ellison’s a double agent who …
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December 29, 2015
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Halfway Down The Stairs by Gary A. Braunbeck “Halfway Down The Stairs is a welcome and comprehensive retrospective of the short stories of Gary A. Braunbeck.” Climb halfway down the stairs with Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Gary A. Braunbeck, into worlds that occupy the spaces between “here” and “there,” where office workers …
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December 15, 2015
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Beneath An Oil Dark Sea by Caitlin R. Kiernan “An impressive collection from one of the most important writers of weird fiction in the last few decades.” In his Locus review of Two Worlds and In Between—the first volume of The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan—Gary K. Wolfe wrote, “…it makes you wish …
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December 1, 2015
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Flowers In A Dumpster by Mark Allan Gunnells “Within you’ll find ghost hunters, possessed porn stars, serial killers and all manner of twisted darkness.” The world is full of beauty and mystery. In these 17 tales, Gunnells will take you on a journey through landscapes of light and darkness, rapture and agony, …
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November 24, 2015
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King “The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams shows, yet again, why there’s no one quite like King” The No. 1 bestselling writer has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of novellas and short story fiction since his first collection Night Shift was published. He …
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November 17, 2015
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… The Rim Of Morning by William Sloane “The Rim Of Morning demonstrates Sloane’s skill at building an atmosphere of tension and dread.” In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry …
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November 10, 2015
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4 mins to read
Look Out For… Slade House by David Mitchell “Expect Mitchell’s usual linguistic fireworks, multiple narrators and intricate plotting.” Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a …
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October 27, 2015
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Lost Girl by Adam Nevill “Lost Girl combines the apocalyptic vision of The Road with Nevill’s own brand of bleak terror.” How far will he go to save his daughter? How far will he go to get revenge? It’s 2053 and runaway climate change has brought civilization to the brink of collapse. …
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October 20, 2015
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard “This is no normal mythos rip off, but a sleek and stylish novel full of clever dialogue and original twists.” Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case–the hunt for a serial killer–went wrong in strange ways and soured the job …
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