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July 23, 2024
100% Match by Patrick C Harrison III
Title: 100% Match
Author: Patrick C Harrison III
Year Published: 2022
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Extreme Horror, Splatterpunk, Mental Illness, Novella, Thriller, Twist Ending
Summary:
Bart is thirty. He is bald. He is overweight. He wears glasses. He is a fry cook. He hates cats. And kids. Bart occasionally does very bad things. He is looking for his perfect match. He has done his research.
Ten-Sentence Review
This is yet another splatterpunk book that I will not recommend unless you k...
July 18, 2024
Against Medical Advice by Ruth Anna Evans
Title: Against Medical Advice
Author: Ruth Anna Evans
Year Published: 2024
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Horror, Medical Horror, Mental Illness, Novella
Summary:
Frank's six-year-old daughter Maddie is sick. Very sick. Her mother is out of town and he's on his own to handle the emergency. But the doctors can't find anything wrong and money is quickly running out. Frank is desperate, and he begins to consider the unthinkable. Shelly is a social worker with a pill problem. When...
July 8, 2024
Slashtag by Jon Cohn
Title: Slashtag
Author: Jon Cohn
Year Published: 2023
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Haunted House, Supernatural, Ghosts, Twist Ending, Ensemble, LGBTQ+
Summary:
Welcome to Slashtag, the most immersive horror reality competition series in history! Tag along as seven of America's favorite celebrities step into the infamous Propitius Hotel, home to one of the most prolific serial killers in history - Arthur Wilson.
Arthur built and operated the Propitius Hotel from 1905 un...
June 6, 2024
No One Rides for Free: Absolute Chaos by Judith Sonnet and Otis Bateman
Title: The Groomer
Author: Jon Athen
Year Published: 2020
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Splatterpunk, Thriller, Crime, Extreme Horror
Summary:
In the original book, No One Rides For Free, by Judith Sonnet, there was a warning halfway through the story, which told readers to be cautious with the foul, disturbing, and disgusting material they were about to encounter.
This time . . . YOU DON’T GET A WARNING!
The twisted Otis Bateman and unhinged Judith Sonnet have joined forces to bring you ...
January 18, 2024
The Groomer by Jon Athen
Title: The Groomer
Author: Jon Athen
Year Published: 2020
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Splatterpunk, Thriller, Crime
Summary:
Andrew McCarthy grows concerned for his family after he catches a young man, Zachary Denton, photographing his daughter, Grace McCarthy, and other children at a park. To his dismay, Zachary talks his way out of trouble when he’s confronted by the police. He hopes that’s the end of it. Then he finds Zachary at a diner and then at a grocery store. He knows their en...December 28, 2023
When I Am Through With You by Stephanie Kuehn
Title: When I Am Through With You
Author: Stephanie Kuehn
Year Published: 2017
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, YA, Suspense, Thriller, Crime, Twist Ending
Summary:
Ben Gibson is many things, buthe’s not sorry and he’s not a liar. He will tell you exactly how what startedas a simple school camping trip in the mountains ended the way it did. Aboutwho lived and who died. About who killed and who had the best of intentions.And he’ll tell you about Rose. But he’s going to tell you in his own time....
December 8, 2023
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Title: The Deep
Author: Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
Year Published: 2019
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Supernatural, Fantasy, LGBTQ+ Novella
Summary:
Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed...May 13, 2023
I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House by Ben Farthing
Title: I Found a Circus Tent in the Woods Behind My House
Author: Ben Farthing
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Novella, Horror, Supernatural
Summary:
Dave and hie four-year-old, Jacob, find a circus tent in the woods behind their house. A strange voice invites them through the dark doorway.
When they refuse, the tent swallows them.
What follows is a nightmare fleeing through a maze of circus tents. Strange performers lurk inside. They want Dave and his little boy to put on a show. The audience: a...
May 10, 2023
Head Like a Hole by Andrew Van Wey
Title: Head Like a Hole
Author: Andrew Van Wey
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Supernatural, 90's
Summary:
It's the mid-nineties. Grunge and flannel are fading as the Spice Girls and Hot Topic conquer the malls. Cherry gloss glistens on the lips of the youth. Modems hiss as America comes online. And in a fog-drenched cove at the edge of New England, something terrible awakens when a fisherman reels in a gruesome catch: the remains of a young woman.
Remains still pulsing with furious life.
F...
Unbortion by Rowland Bercy Jr
Title: Unbortion
Authors: Rowland Bercy Jr
Link to Buy: Amazon
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Splatterpunk, Novella
Summary:
It was alive, confused, and pissed! It could not understand why it was violently separated from its host and left to rot. Following an undeniable call to pursue the one who abandoned it and seek revenge, the quest for retribution had begin, and nothing or no one would stand in the way.
Ten Sentence Review:
This novel was an enjoyable, funny, gross journey that left me with a lot of ques...
