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August 2019 Horror Releases
Just speaking from almost 4 years of experience on #bookstagram (dedicated bookish accounts and posts on the social app, Instagram) readers are starting to collect books for their Fall/Winter TBR. This is often the season where people dabble in the horror genre so I'm going to start rounding up each month's horror releases in an attempt to help people make some good, horror choices.
First up are two of my recommendations:
THE FEARING- John F. D. Taff
Book One: Fire & Rain is already out and you can read that now! Buy it!
Book Two: Water & Wind is ready for...
Friday Feels- August 2nd, 2019
Tav's Review of ONE BY ONE by D. W. Gillespie
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Review by Tav @readswithdogs
I started reading One by One expecting a run-of-the-mill haunted house/creepy kid story and though it definitely features a creepy kid, the haunting is not your typical ghost story.
The suspense built up slowly and the atmosphere got wicked tense the further you read into the story. I stayed up later than I intended because I honestly couldn't stop reading! I had to know what would happen to Alice before I could sleep!
Alice is the main character of the book, a ten-year...
John's Review of THE ISLE by John C. Foster
The Isle, By John C. Foster, is a novel of isolation, dread, and small town terror. Part horror and part murder mystery, Foster has crafted a novel in which its greatest strengths are the immersion and atmosphere the reader will experience.
U.S. Marshall Virgil Bone is a man with a haunted past. Seemingly at the end of his career, he is assigned the menial task of retrieving the corpse of a fugitive from a small island town off the coast of Maine, but as can be expected, the Isle isn’t what it appears to be. Despite...
Chandra's Review of Growing Things by Paul Tremblay
I have a love/hate relationship with short story anthologies. I have GREAT respect for authors who write these as I feel these are harder to write than the full novel as you're putting an entire story together in under 7,500 words. Those that do it well, do it WELL and those are the ones I like but I'll be honest, it's very few and far between where they get me. I am one of those who prefer that full novel, or even the extended short story ala novelette/novella. It's hard to say I...