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Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: BAD DOLLS by Rachel Harrison

Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: BAD DOLLS by Rachel Harrison

BAD DOLLS by Rachel Harrison (The Return, Cackle, Such Sharp Teeth)
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Release Date: December 6th, 2022 from Berkley
Genre: Adult Horror Fiction, Short Stories, Audio/eBook Only, Thriller, Female-Centered
Themes/Sub-Genres: Female friendships, queer relationships, supernatural, bachelorette party, jealousy, ritualistic sacrifice, disordered eating, diets, grief, siblings, family, death, hinted suicide, creepy dolls, trauma, therapy

 

What You Need to Know: This is a...

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Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: TOMBS by Junji Ito

Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: TOMBS by Junji Ito

TOMBS by Junji Ito (Shiver, Smashed)
Manga, Illustrated short horror stories
Release Date: March 28th, 2023
I read a NetGalley ARC on my iPhone through their app
Sub-genre: Gore, Body Horror, Ghosts, Supernatural/Paranormal
Graphic Novel/Hardcover
Junji Ito is a goddamn, magical treasure to horror. Ito's imagination seems to come from some otherworldly place outside of anything we are accustomed to--As soon as I saw this was available to review on NetGalley I smashed that request button...

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Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie (The Children of Red Peak, Suffer the Children)
Release Date: January 24th, 2023
I read a NetGalley ARC on my Kindle Paperwhite and a physical ARC
Sub-genre: Found Footage/Found Media
Writing Style: Epistolary format: journal entries, text messages, emails, raw video footage

What you need to know: The crew of "Fade to Black", a 'ghost hunters' like show, led by a married couple, Claire &...

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Cover Reveal: Come One, Come All by E. Gilliand

Cover Reveal: Come One, Come All by E. Gilliand

 

COME ONE, COME ALL by E. Gilliand

Cover Artwork: ChameleonStudio74

 

The Pied Piper Circus lures in the lost, the lonely, people who wish to be stronger or faster or prettier…but once you join, you can never leave. 
 
Louisa knows the dangers of the traveling carnival, but she cannot afford to stay away. Not if she wants to get rid of the white owl that’s been haunting her, invading...

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Guest Post: Hawthorne as Horror & the Monstrous Woman by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

Guest Post: Hawthorne as Horror & the Monstrous Woman by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

Hawthorne as Horror & the Monstrous Woman


By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam


Before I read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” I didn’t understand that women in fiction could be monstrous. Or that “monstrous” didn’t always mean a stalker in the night.  


Beatrice, the daughter of a botanist who breeds poisonous plants, is herself poison. You may argue that she cannot be monstrous because she means no ill will to the man who tries to love her, but villains maintain their own sense of logic. Beatrice...

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