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Bad Man — Dathan Auerbach

TITLE: Bad Man AUTHOR: Dathan Auerbach RELEASED: August 7th, 2018; Doubleday Books GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother was gone. Vanished right into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle. They say you’ve got only a couple days to find a missing person. Forty-eight hours to conduct searches, knock on doors, and talk to witnesses. Two days to tear...

Sparrow Hill Road — Seanan McGuire

TITLE: Sparrow Hill Road AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire SERIES: Ghost Roads, #1 RE-RELEASED: June 5th, 2018; DAW Books (originally released May 2014) GENRE: Paranormal/Gothic horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross–a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn’t ask Rose what she thought of the idea. It’s been more than sixty...

"Halloween in July" Book Tag ???

Thank you so much to my horror twin, Heather, for tagging me in this! The original creator of this tag is @the.book.gypsy on Instagram. Click the book covers for Goodreads links! 1. What book gave you the creeps? Definitely Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, a YA horror collection edited by April Genevieve Tucholke. Some of the stories are just okay, but there are a few surprisingly creepy ones, including my favorite: ‘In the Forest Dark and Deep’, by Carrie Ryan. It’s an Alice retelling that...

Contagion — Erin Bowman

TITLE: Contagion AUTHOR: Erin Bowman SERIES: Contagion, #1 RELEASES: July 24th, 2018; HarperTeen GENRE: Sci-fi/Horror AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project—including its members’ dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left...

A Head Full of Ghosts — Paul Tremblay (Audio Review)

TITLE: A Head Full of Ghosts AUTHOR: Paul Tremblay RELEASED: June 2nd, 2015; William Morrow Paperbacks GENRE: Thriller/Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an...

The Devil and the Deep — Ellen Datlow

TITLE: The Devil and the Deep EDITOR: Ellen Datlow RELEASED: March 20th, 2018; Night Shade Books GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: It’s only water, so why should we fear large bodies of it, such as the sea or the ocean? However, when you’re all alone, you realize how scary a place it can be. In Devil and the Deep, award-winning editor Ellen Datlow shares an original anthology of horror that covers the depths of the deep blue sea. Whether its tales of murderous...

Devils Unto Dust — Emma Berquist (ARC Review)

TITLE: Devils Unto Dust AUTHOR: Emma Berquist RELEASES: April 10th, 2018; Greenwillow GENRE: Western/Horror AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Ten years ago, a horrifying disease began spreading across the West Texas desert. Infected people—shakes—attacked the living and created havoc and destruction. No one has ever survived the infection. Daisy Wilcox, known as Willie, has been protecting her siblings within the relatively safe walls of Glory, Texas. When Willie’s good-for-nothing father steals a fortune from one of the most dangerous shake-hunters in town, she finds herself...

The Barrow Will Send What it May — Margaret Killjoy

TITLE: The Barrow Will Send What it May AUTHOR: Margaret Killjoy SERIES: Danielle Cain, #2 RELEASES: April 3rd, 2018; Tor.com GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle Cain against eternal spirits, hypocritical ideologues, and brutal, unfeeling officers of the law. Now a nascent demon-hunting crew on the lam, Danielle and her friends arrive in a small town that contains a secret occult library run by anarchists and residents who claim...

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion — Margaret Killjoy

TITLE: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion AUTHOR: Margaret Killjoy SERIES: Danielle Cain, #1 RELEASED: August 15th, 2017; Tor.com GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious and sudden suicide, she ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa. All is not well in Freedom, however: things went awry after the town’s residents summoned a protector spirit to serve as their judge...

Vices and Virtues: A Horror Anthology – Ashley Franz Holzmann

TITLE: Vices and Virtues: A Horror Anthology EDITOR: Ashley Franz Holzmann RELEASED: September 30th, 2017; As For Class GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Discover some of the best up-and-coming horror writers today. These stories explore the best and worst aspects of human nature, each story based on vices or virtues from the cultures of human history. There is true horror throughout this anthology that will touch the center of your soul and leave it burning. {GOODREADS . AMAZON . BOOKDEPOSITORY} It’s time for another horror...