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Oh, how I do love a good B slasher type movie and this book basically incorporates this feel for me.  I am not a fan of reunions and the two that I’ve been to in my life could’ve maybe used the spark that The Fra brought to this one. Just kidding... ahem.  But I think we all do know what it feels like in high school. I was in the “not quite” category. Not quite popular. Not quite the athlete. Not quite..... I basically lived in purgatory and quite honestly, I liked being on the “outside” and...

A few months ago, while looking through all of the books Flametree press had up for sale on their website, I noticed Hellrider. One look at the demon on that motorcycle and I was immediately sold on this book. I wanted to love Hellrider. I NEEDED to love Hellrider. As I sit here after finishing the latest by JG Faherty, I’m disappointed to say that I had some issues with it that really prevented me from doing so.

Eddie Ryder,  a former bike gang member who’s been recently released from prison is struggling. With a father...

World War II veteran Bull Ingram is a huge man. That is, after all, why they call him Bull. He is hired by a Memphis radio station owner to find the musician Ramblin’ John Hastur. The music Hastur makes is claimed to have made perfectly sane men go mad and to have made dead men rise.

Bull follows Hastur’s trail into the backwoods of Arkansas and into the unknown. He hears rumors that the Hastur has sold his soul to the Devil. He sees dead men live and feels the effects Hastur’s music has on people...

Cal and Becky DeMuth, a brother and sister driving across the United States to arrange the adoption of Becky’s unborn child. Passing through Kansas they encounter a dilapidated church and hear a child calling from the long grass nearby. The child sounds in trouble and the DeMuth’s natural disposition as do-gooders leads them to believe they can help the child out of the grass. However, shortly after the child cries out for help he is scolded by his mother for attempting to lead strangers into the grass. Events only become...

Happy Friday, worms! This week I wanted to ramble for a second about Dear Laura by Gemma Amor. Our fearless leader and everyone’s horror mother figure, Sadie aka @mother.horror told me I needed this book and then basically forced me to read it immediately so we could talk about it. She hasn’t let me down with a book recommendation yet and this was no exception. I received the book, started and finished reading it in just about two and a half hours, the entire time messaging Sadie in all caps about different parts of the...