Book Review: The Sadist’s Bible by Nicole Cushing

  • April 13, 2016

  • 6 mins to read

“Cushing delivers a knockout punch that’ll leave you reeling and that will stay with you long after you’ve read the last word.” Ellie Blake is a closeted lesbian with sadistic leanings, desperate to come out but unwilling to do so in the bible belt community she lives in with her fanatically religious husband. Unfulfilled and …

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I Believe in Ghosts

  • April 13, 2016

  • 4 mins to read

I suppose it could be said that I grew up with ghosts and the supernatural, and that the supernatural continues to play a part in my life, being, as I am, a Christian. Often, I’ve seen a reductive view of faith expressed on social media along the lines of – those of faith believe in …

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When the Kickstarter Stops and the Indiego-Goes

  • April 13, 2016

  • 16 mins to read

Aside from working in a bookshop for a year, and working as a journalist for a decade, the only proper job I’ve ever had was the couple of months I spent working in a porn shop in the middle of Leicester Square, about twenty years ago. Quite presciently, given my later career as a horror …

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Look Out For… The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories by Joan Aiken and The Bad Game by Adam Millard

  • April 12, 2016

  • 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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