Categorie: indiehorror
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Black Bloom, a Story of Survival
Author: Felix I.D. Dimaro Publisher: infinity road publishing house Publishing year: 2022 Number of pages: 136 (kindle) my rating: 4,5/5 Synopsis: It started with a viral sensation. A photo of a young Indian boy plucking a single black dandelion from the train tracks situated beside a slum. The weed was considered an abnormality, a genetic…
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Haunted Souls
Author: Samuel M. Hallam Publisher: Ginger Paw Press publishing year: 2022 (out mid-July) Number of pages: 142 (Tolino ereader) My rating: 4/5 Synopsis: Death brings January Miller home, back to a house that’s taken so much from her over the years – Stone Acres. After years away from the manor, January finds herself drawn back…
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The Lunchling
Author: Jay Alexander Publisher: Ghoul and Gristle Press Publishing year: 2022 Number of pages: 119 ISBN: 978-1915272102 (paperback) My rating: 5/5 Synopsis: The Lunchling: A Novella by Jay Alexander Orville and Ellie Taylor would do anything to get their son to eat his dinner. Lennon’s an exceedingly fussy kid, and desperate times call for desperate…
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ARC review ‘The Cotton Candy Massacre’ (ARC)
Writer: Christopher Robertson Publisher: independently published Publishing date: 1 July 2022! Number of pages: 275 (Tolino e-reader) My rating: 5/5 Synopsis: The book you are about to read is an account of the tragedy that occurred at the reopening of Bonkin’s Bonanza one day in the summer of 1989. Some came looking for fun, like…
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The Potted Plant
Author: Thomas Gloom Publisher: independently published Publishing year: 2021 Number of pages: 86 My rating: 4/5 The Potted Plant: An Eco-Horror, Revenge Tale They say that love is blind…. …but so is revenge. The girl he’d planned to marry shattered his heart into a thousand pieces. His best friend stabbed him in the back. He…
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Sister Funtime: a Smileyland Story
Author: Spencer Hamilton Publisher: independently published Publishing year: 2021 Number of pages: 123 (kindle) Cover by: GoOnWrite and Ruin Reels My rating: 5/5 Synopsis: “Welcome to hell, Sister.”Sister Mary Matthew arrives on the steps of St. Teresa’s Joyous Youths Orphanage determined to be the children’s favorite nun. But she can’t seem to win over the…
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The Ritual: a Holiday Folk Horror Story
Author: Michael R. Goodwin Publisher: independently published Publishing year: 2021 Number of pages: 17 (kindle) My rating: 4,5/5 Synopsis: “Let us bow our heads and close our eyes,” the villagers chanted, “for the Bell waits not for the one who dies.” In the square, the villagers had gathered for The Ritual, which hasn’t been performed…
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Starving Grounds: Tales of Folk Horror (ARC)
Writer: Jay Alexander Publisher: Ghoul and Gristle Press Publishing date: 20 June 2022! Number of pages: 129 (Tolino ereader) – 233 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-915272-09-6 (paperback) My rating: 4/5 Synopsis: Starving Grounds: Tales of Folk HorrorA Short Story Collection from Jay Alexander, author of The Lunchling Welcome to Sorrow Helm… To the woods and fens that…
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Nature’s Perfume
Author: Mark Towse Publisher: JournalStone Publishing Publishing year: 2022 Number of pages: 86 ISBN: 9781685100353 My rating: 4/5 Synopsis: Nature’s Perfume—the new novella from the author of Nana, Crows, and Hope Wharf. Four close friends arrange a trip to the Amazon, all aware this is likely to be their last group outing before the responsibilities of adulthood take…
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The House on Moon Creek Avenue
Author: E. Reyes Publisher: independently published Publishing year: 2020 Number of pages: 167 My rating: 3,5/5 Synopsis: Cindy Flores, a twenty-one-year-old single mother, retail worker, and college student, inherits her grandmother’s home on Moon Creek Avenue after she passes away. Cindy’s father offers to pay the utilities until she graduates from college; doing whatever he…
