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Dead Leaves: 9 Tales From the Witching Season — Kealan Patrick Burke

TITLE: Dead Leaves: 9 Tales From the Witching Season AUTHOR: Kealan Patrick Burke RELEASED: September 18th, 2018 GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke comes the second in his series of seasonal collections. Featuring seven reprints, a brand new story “The Toll”, an introduction, and rounded out by the author’s recommended reading and viewing lists, DEAD LEAVES makes for the perfect autumnal read. Does anyone else have an author (or a few) whose work you’ve...

"I want to play a game…" (or the Saw/Jigsaw Book Tag!)

Thank you to Heather for tagging me in this creepy tag! I actually love the Saw film franchise. I have a blu-ray collection of the 7 main films and binge watch them all in a row at least once a year. I wasn’t as fond of Jigsaw, the 2017 addition, but I still thought it was worth seeing! I digress—let’s get on with the tag! Heather said she originally found it on Hardback Hoarder’s channel and the original creator is Wolfshot Publishing....

Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories — Evans Light

TITLE: Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories EDITOR: Evans Light RELEASED: September 3rd, 2018; Corpus Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS:Halloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their first taste of terror, the discovery and overcoming of fears. For those who find they love a good scare, that first taste can grow into a voracious appetite. That might be why you’re looking at this book right now. If so, you’ve come to the right place. Doorbells at...

The Toy Thief — D. W. Gillespie

TITLE: The Toy Thief AUTHOR: D. W. Gillespie RELEASES: October 6th, 2018; Flame Tree Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Jack didn’t know what to call the nameless, skeletal creature that slunk into her house in the dead of night, stealing the very things she loved the most. So she named him The Toy Thief… There’s something in Jack’s past that she doesn’t want to face, an evil presence that forever changed the trajectory of her family. It all began when The...

The House by the Cemetery — John Everson

TITLE: The House by the Cemetery AUTHOR: John Everson RELEASES: October 6th, 2018; Flame Tree Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Rumor has it that the abandoned house by the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a witch. But rumors won’t stop carpenter Mike Kostner from rehabbing the place as a haunted house attraction. Soon he’ll learn that fresh wood and nails can’t keep decades of rumors down. There are noises in the walls, and fresh blood on the floor: secrets...

Kill Hill Carnage — Tim Meyer

TITLE: Kill Hill Carnage AUTHOR: Tim Meyer RELEASED: July 15th, 2018; Sinister Grin Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: In 1991, hell was unleashed upon Saint Christopher’s Summer Camp for Kids. The killers left behind piles of bodies and rivers of blood. Some say a family of inbred cannibals was responsible. A masked psychopath with a butcher’s knife is another popular theory. Some still believe a camp counselor lost his mind and went crazy on everyone with an axe. But there’s also the...

Horror Recommendations, Pt. II: My Creepy TBR!

In case you missed it, earlier today, I posted pt. I of this recommendations idea: horror books I enjoyed, complete with “creep level” ratings! Definitely go check that post out, too! Spooky Reads I Expect to Enjoy: Everything below this point is a book I have yet to read and cannot vouch for, but they’re all stories that sounded intriguing to me for one reason or another. It’s not my full horror TBR, just the ones I feel confident I’ll...

Horror Recommendations, Pt. I (& a read-along!)

If there’s one post that has been requested of me more than anything else during my entire time hosting this blog, it has to be… A horror recommendation list! Check out pt. II of the list here! But, first… Before we jump into the recommendations, I wanted to take a moment to announce a creepy October read-along! (photo credit to Kathy!) Kathy and I have been discussing an It read-along for ages, so we decided to finally host it in...