⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ** 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 Leper’s Garden and Other Contagions
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Dark Matter
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description When the world ends, chaos begins– –for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bits– –for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to… Continue reading Dark Matter
First Nations Month Reads
November is First Nations Month, so I’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 I’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
Ghost Girls & Rabbits
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ** 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
Priest of Lies
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Description Summary I recently read the second historical fantasy grimdark novel Priest of Lies (The Rose Wars, #2) by Peter McLean. You can check out my review of Priest of Bones (The Rose Wars, #1) . Review Priest of Lies is the second book in McLean’s War for the Rose Throne series. Priest of Lies… Continue reading Priest of Lies
What Moves the Dead
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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
2025 Favourite Reads…so 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 👉🏻 I’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 👉🏻 Shepherd are… Continue reading 2025 Favourite Reads…so far
Carmilla: Week 6
VI. A Very Strange Agony When we got into the drawing room, and had sat down to our coffee and chocolate, although Carmilla did not take any, she seemed quite herself again, and Madame, and Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, joined us, and made a little card party, in the course of which papa came in for… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 6
Spirit Level
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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
Drowning in the Dark
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ **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

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