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Twice-Spent Comet

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The fall from hopeful revolutionary to prison laborer is a hard one. Ferโ€™s world has shrunk from the whole damn universe to this anonymous asteroid and the four other convicts who share it with them. Itโ€™s a fitting end, for someone who used… Continue reading Twice-Spent Comet

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The Others of Edenwell

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Norfolk, 1917. Unable to join the army due to a heart condition, Freddie lives and works with his father in the grounds of the Edenwell Hydropathic, a wellness retreat in the Norfolk brecks. Preferring the company of birds โ€“ who talk to him as one of their own โ€“ over the eccentric characters… Continue reading The Others of Edenwell

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The Secret History

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed… Continue reading The Secret History

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New Release: Weird Horror Anthology

Spawn 2 cover art Luke Spooner I am very excited to announce the release of Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies edited by Deborah Sheldon and published by IFWG Publishing is an anthology of Australian and New Zealand authors with themes ranging from body horror, occult, folklore, history, cybernetics and… Continue reading New Release: Weird Horror Anthology

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Gustave Dorรฉ's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustration "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is one of the great epic poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, written between 1797โ€“1798 and published in 1798. For me, this endures as a haunting poem about the consequence of actions and respect for an equilibrium, especially… Continue reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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The Goblin Market

BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI One of my favourite dark folklore infused pieces. Enjoy! ๐Ÿ–ค "Goblin Market" - Arthur Rackham Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:โ€œCome buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy:Apples and quinces,Lemons and oranges,Plump unpeckโ€™d cherries,Melons and raspberries,Bloom-down-cheekโ€™d peaches,Swart-headed mulberries,Wild free-born cranberries,Crab-apples, dewberries,Pine-apples, blackberries,Apricots, strawberries;โ€”All ripe togetherIn summer weather,โ€”Morns that pass by,Fair eves… Continue reading The Goblin Market

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The Darkest Night

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description  From some of the biggest names in horror comes an Advent calendar of short holiday horror stories perfect for the darkest nights of the year.  Edited by award-winning author and anthologist Lindy Ryan and with contributions from masters of horror like Josh Malerman, Eric LaRocca,… Continue reading The Darkest Night

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Reblog: All the New Horror Books Coming in June 2024

June 2024โ€™s new horror books, featuring titles from Gretchen Felker-Martin, Paul Tremblay, Hailey Piper, L.P. Hernandez, Eden Royce, Josh Malerman, โ€ฆ All the New Horror Books Coming in June 2024

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The Fortunate Isles

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The Fortunate Isles collects fourteen tales of salt-crusted weirdness from the rugged, cold-clime harbour village of Barradoon... Barradoon: the limit of worldly navigation; stronghold of sea-myths and ancient forces; a place of simmering tension and ruthless vengeance meted out by human and inhuman alike.… Continue reading The Fortunate Isles

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Shakespeare Unleashed

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description SHAKESPEARE IN BLOOD! From the blood of Macbeth and the ghosts of Hamlet, to the dark fantasy of The Tempest and the twisted love of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Unleashed reimagines the Bardโ€™s greatest works as short horror storiesโ€ฆas well as horror sonnets. Summary I… Continue reading Shakespeare Unleashed