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Scissor Sisters

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Publisherโ€™s Description 21 tales of sapphic villains, curated by April Yates and Rae Knowles. Summary One of my recent reads included Scissor Sisters is a sapphic anthology edited by Rae Knowles and April Yates. Review Scissor Sisters was a particularly diverse dark fiction and horror… Continue reading Scissor Sisters

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Never Whistle at Night

Publisherโ€™s Description Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukaiโ€™po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common… Continue reading Never Whistle at Night

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2023 Awards Season

Itโ€™s that time of year again when 2023 Awards seasons rolls around. I have several works eligible in Horror and Fantasy categories for short fiction, Collections and Novelettes for the Aurealis Awards, Stoker Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Ditmar Awards, Australian Shadows Awards, Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Otherwise Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards & World Fantasy Awards.… Continue reading 2023 Awards Season

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Peripheral Visions

Publisherโ€™s Description Peripheral Visions is a unique, award-winning reference collection that includes all of Robert Hoodโ€™s 44 ghost stories to date, three of them especially written for this volume. These memorable tales display Hoodโ€™s uncanny ability to make the fantastic real, to embrace weirdness and create human characters whose lives โ€“ both inner and outer… Continue reading Peripheral Visions

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Anoka

Publisherโ€™s Description Welcome to Anoka, Minnesota, a small city just outside of the Twin Cities dubbed "The Halloween Capital of the World" since 1937. Here before you lie several tales involving bone collectors, pagan witches, werewolves, skeletal bison, and cloned children. It is up to you to decipher between fact and fiction as the author… Continue reading Anoka

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Donโ€™t Fear the Reaper

Publisherโ€™s Description Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from… Continue reading Donโ€™t Fear the Reaper

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The Attic Tragedy

Publisherโ€™s Description Sylvie never called them ghosts, but thatโ€™s what they wereโ€”not that George ever saw them herself. The new girl, Sylvie, is like a creature from another time, with her old-fashioned leather satchel, her white cotton gloves and her head in the clouds. George watches her drift around the edge of the school playing… Continue reading The Attic Tragedy

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Coyote Songs

Publisherโ€™s Description In this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to… Continue reading Coyote Songs

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The Bridge

Publisherโ€™s Description Meera and her twin sister Kai are Madesโ€”part human and part notโ€”bred in the Blood Temple cult, which only the teenage Meera will survive. Racked with grief and guilt, she lives in hiding with her mysterious rescuer, Narnโ€”part witch and part notโ€”who has lost a sister too, a connection that follows them to… Continue reading The Bridge

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Tide of Stone

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Publisherโ€™s Description The Time-Ball Tower of Tempuston houses the worst criminals in history. Given the option of the death penalty or eternal life, they chose eternal life. They have a long time to regret that choice. Summary Tide of Stone is a dark fiction novel… Continue reading Tide of Stone