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Reblog: Bluebells Review from Happy Goat Horror

Book review from Happy Goat Horror & Bluebells: In the Devilโ€™s Garden also makes the Top 10 Favourite Horror Novellas. Check them out! For the book review: https://happygoathorror.com/2025/09/09/bluebells-by-leanbh-pearson/ Andโ€ฆ For the booktube Top 10 Horror Novellas: https://youtu.be/xjVbIya7MpI?si=cmln5YOBGfFNF7nE

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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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Carmilla: Week 14

XIV. The Meeting โ€œMy beloved child,โ€ he resumed, โ€œwas now growing rapidly worse. The physician who attended her had failed to produce the slightest impression on her disease, for such I then supposed it to be. He saw my alarm, and suggested a consultation. I called in an abler physician, from Gratz. Several days elapsed… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 14

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Carmilla: Week 13

XIII. The Woodman โ€œThere soon, however, appeared some drawbacks. In the first place, Millarca complained of extreme languorโ€”the weakness that remained after her late illnessโ€”and she never emerged from her room till the afternoon was pretty far advanced. In the next place, it was accidentally discovered, although she always locked her door on the inside,… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 13

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Carmilla: Week 12

XII. A Petition โ€œโ€˜Then we are to lose Madame la Comtesse, but I hope only for a few hours,โ€™ I said, with a low bow. โ€œโ€˜It may be that only, or it may be a few weeks. It was very unlucky his speaking to me just now as he did. Do you now know me?โ€™… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 12

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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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Carmilla: Week 11

XI. The Story โ€œWith all my heart,โ€ said the General, with an effort; and after a short pause in which to arrange his subject, he commenced one of the strangest narratives I ever heard. โ€œMy dear child was looking forward with great pleasure to the visit you had been so good as to arrange for… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 11

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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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Carmilla: Week 10

X. Bereaved It was about ten months since we had last seen him: but that time had sufficed to make an alteration of years in his appearance. He had grown thinner; something of gloom and anxiety had taken the place of that cordial serenity which used to characterize his features. His dark blue eyes, always… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 10