Categorie: indiehorror
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Black Bloom, a Story of Survival
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 mutation. Nothing to be concerned about… Weeks later, most of the world has gone blind. Black dandelions have sprouted everywhere,…
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Haunted Souls
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 there. To a place soaked in horror and tragedy, the scope of which she cannot imagine…Samuel M. Hallam’s debut novel will bring…
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The Lunchling
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 measures. Which is why they started using the puppet. “The Lunchling”, they called it: an ugly little wooden doll with a…
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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
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 was heartbroken, angry, and ashamed. Then he met Fiona. Could she help put his life back…
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Sister Funtime: a Smileyland Story
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 head of the orphanage: stern, withered Sister Agatha Eustace, whom everyone secretly calls Sister Killjoy. Mary tries to rise to the challenge, but things…
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The Ritual: a Holiday Folk Horror Story
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 in more than thirty years. Only those old enough to have been at the last one knew the…
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Starving Grounds: Tales of Folk Horror (ARC)
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 surround it; to the creatures, cults and cruelties that hound it. Welcome to a collection of stories that bring folklore to life, that terrify and delight and that…
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Nature’s Perfume
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 them in separate directions. High on adrenaline, plans for an early night before the hike quickly fade, an…
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The House on Moon Creek Avenue
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 can do so that she doesn’t go back to her abusive boyfriend. At first, the home…
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