Horror
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SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER by Lucy A. Snyder (BOOK REVIEW)
‘Something about it was triggering a very old fear instinct in me; this creature was an actual monstrosity and did not belong in the world’ Lucy ... -
GAMES FOR DEAD GIRLS by Jen Williams (BOOK REVIEW)
She was at my side suddenly, her face in the gloom small and round, and tipped up to watch me closely. She narrowed her eyes. ‘Do ... -
WALKING PRACTICE by Dolki Min, translated by Victoria Caudle (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wasn’t raised as a life-form of limited imagination. But truthfully, on my home planet, no one could have imagined that there is something that walks ... -
THE DRIVER’S SEAT by Muriel Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
“’Too much self-control, which arises from fear and timidity, that’s what’s wrong with them. They’re cowards, most of them.’ “’Oh, I always believe that’, says Mrs ... -
THE WITCH IN THE WELL by Camilla Bruce (BOOK REVIEW)
“They will come to the well whether we want them to or not, pulled by the power of our misery. Like calls to like, and there ... -
CHLORINE by Jade Song (BOOK REVIEW)
“Mermaids are not born. We are made. I burst into being when I was seventeen years old. I became a mermaid not as a pearl in ... -
THE CLIFF HOUSE by Chris Brookmyre (BOOK REVIEW)
“What happens on Calchan Geal, stays on Clachan Geal” Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite ... -
ALL THE BLOOD WE SHARE by Camilla Bruce (BOOK REVIEW)
“We take care of our own. The rest can fend for themselves.” “It just will not do to let people see the maggots that crawl inside ... -
THE WHISPERING MUSE by Laura Purcell (BOOK REVIEW)
“You see, now, the beauty of tragedy? It has so many faces. Not all doom and gloom but nobility, honour and a hundred other qualities. You ... -
JAWBONE by Mónica Ojeda (BOOK REVIEW)
Mónica Ojeda – Jawbone (2017, translated by Sarah Booker 2021, published in the UK by New Ruins 2022) “Monsters have to be taught how to be ...