Tag: horror
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Review: The Monstrous Dreams of Mr Providence by Daria Schmitt
**I was provided an electronic ARC via the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Daria Schmitt presents an adult graphic novel inspired by HP Lovecraft’s “The Strange House High in the Mist” with The Strange Dreams of Mr Providence. Readers follow Providence in his role as caretaker of a park…
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Review: Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Kathryn Harlan presents Fruiting Bodies, a short story anthology that seems to defy any genre other than to classify it as speculative. There are some stories than lean into scifi, fantasy, or horror, but there is also…
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Review: Moth by Michael Takeda
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through BookSirens as a prize in a giveaway. I provide an honest review of my own accord.** 4 stars With Moth, Michael Takeda explores Urbino, Italy through the lens of a young gay man with a heroin addiction. The grungy underbelly of the city and the…
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Review: Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente
**I was provided an audio galley of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Comfort Me With Apples is Catherynne M Valente’s newest novella that seems to defy genre. There is a bit of horror, a bit of fabulism, and a literary sort of vibe all wrapped…
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Review: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Stephen Graham Jones returns with his newest homage to slasher films in My Heart Is a Chainsaw. Jade is the horror chick in her senior year in her small town. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of…
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Review: Small Favors by Erin A Craig
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Erin A Craig returns with her small-town horror Small Favors. Readers follow Ellerie Downing, eldest daughter of one of the founding families in Amity Falls. Amity Falls is a small village where neighbors must support one another.…
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Review: The Smallest of Bones by Holly Lyn Walrath
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Holly Lyn Walrath presents a poetry collection, The Smallest of Bones, discussing a broad variety of topics including relationships, queerness, ghosts, and darkness. NetGalley also chose to classify this work as Horror in addition to Poetry. I…
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Review: Goblin by Josh Malerman
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Josh Malerman returns with his newest novel, Goblin. The novel is composed of six intertwining stories of characters that all live in the city of Goblin, a city with a rich and twisted history full…
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Review: The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher
**I was provided an electronic copy of this book from the publishers through NetGalley post-publication in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars T. Kingfisher’s most recent novel, The Hollow Places, is a modern horror in the form of a portal fantasy inspired by Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows. Readers follow Kara who is recently divorced and…
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Review: Ink by Jonathan Maberry
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Jonathan Maberry’s newest work, Ink, is a supernatural horror story that surrounds something strange happening in Pine Deep, PA. Pine Deep has always been a strange town with weird things happening. But now, people in the…
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