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Janelle's Horror Book of the Week-May 24th, 2021
BOOK OF THE WEEK
Another week, another review. I decided to dive into my backlist because, let’s face it, I have so many books I haven’t read. I have become a faithful patron of Valancourt Books in the past year or, and I’ll tell you why. Valancourt Books is an independent press that brings back the rare, out-of-print horror classics. I collect their anthologies, new releases of old favorites, and some books I’ve never even heard of. COLD MOON OVER BABYLON by Michael McDowell is one of those books. As soon...
Book Review: NIGHTBLOOD by T. Chris Martindale
Nightblood: So Much More Than a Daymare
By Sean M. Sanford
I’ve pretty much always loved vampires. Ever since I was young enough to worry my parents about it. That’s why the core of my soul quakes with anticipation whenever I’m introduced to a sweet new vein of blood suckage. How about the story of Chris Stiles? A man who hunts devilish beings as per is dead brother’s...
Night Worms Book Party: THE VALANCOURT BOOK OF WORLD HORROR STORIES VOL. 1 edited by James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle
"For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. All the foreign-language stories in this book appear here in English for the first time,...
Side By Side Reviews: THE AUCTIONEER by Joan Samson
BOOK REVIEW: Matt Reviews SLIMER by Harry Adam Knight and CHOP SHOP by Andrew Post
161 pages from Valancourt Press
Initially published in 1983, Slimer is the story of six drug smugglers stranded on an oil rig after their boat sinks. They find the platform deserted with only piles of clothes as evidence of the former inhabitants. Also, the rig isn’t decked out like an oil drilling equipment but scientific research equipment instead. Soon, the six drug smugglers find that they are not alone and are being hunted by something,...