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Indian Burial Ground

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ **I received an ARC for an honest review** Description A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation.… Continue reading Indian Burial Ground

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The Leperโ€™s Garden and Other Contagions

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description These eleven tales of historical dark romance and horror will guide through the teeming streets and markets of old Hong Kong, the listless heat of French Senegal and the fog of Victorian London. Step inside penny arcades, shadow theatres and freak shows. These… Continue reading The Leperโ€™s Garden and Other Contagions

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Dark Matter

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description When the world ends, chaos beginsโ€“  โ€“for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bitsโ€“  โ€“for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to… Continue reading Dark Matter

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First Nations Month Reads

November is First Nations Month, so Iโ€™m reading and recommending quite a few amazing indigenous authors in genres spanning from epic fantasy, dystopian Grimdark fantasy to horror and weird fiction. Rebecca Roanhorse Iโ€™m currently reading Mirrored Heavens in the final in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse. This is an amazing epic… Continue reading First Nations Month Reads

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Ghost Girls & Rabbits

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Flush with the victory of winning the election as Alaska's first Athabaskan Senator, Noni Begay wakes to find herself buried alive. When her coffin lid opens, though, it's not to rescue but to six years of captivity, betrayed by the one person she… Continue reading Ghost Girls & Rabbits

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Priest of Lies

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description When Tomas Piety and his Pious Men returned from the war, he just wanted to rebuild his crime empire and look after his people. But the sinister Queen's Men had different ideas and whether he likes it or not, he's now a spy as well. Now, half the city of Ellinburg lies in… Continue reading Priest of Lies

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What Moves the Dead

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks… Continue reading What Moves the Dead

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2025 Favourite Readsโ€ฆso far

This year has been a whirlwind of amazing books by established voices and incredible works from new authors. Enter Shepard to save the day! readers ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Iโ€™ve read 63 books so far this year but wantrd to share my favourite ones so far which have had the greatest impact on me. Writers ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Shepherd are… Continue reading 2025 Favourite Readsโ€ฆso far

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Spirit Level

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description A haunting collaboration between renowned editor & photographer Ellen Datlow, award-winning horror writer Kaaron Warren, and book artist Monica Carroll, Spirit Level transforms ordinary antique tools into vessels of dread.  This book, based on a limited edition artist's book, presents ten mysterious objects, from a 1930s German camera timer to corroded iron pliers, photographed… Continue reading Spirit Level

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Drowning in the Dark

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ **I received an ARC for an honest review** Description A beach that wipes people from memory. Aliens that just want to help humanity along a little bit. Monsters who love their fight club. A woman who trades a piece of her future to help a child. Guilt that serves as a door to dark… Continue reading Drowning in the Dark