In Short-New Horror Novellas

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Creepy Reads To Curl Up With…Keep The Lights On!

A blood splattered dissection of the uber rich, where fury flows as freely as champagne. And on the menu? The family’s just desserts. A robot, William, has begun make decisions outside of its programming, forming appetites, gaslighting its creator. And now, he (it?) wants out. A sleep deprived women who can’t understand why she is so tired all the time, until she films herself. This trio of novellas clears the most difficult hurdle in horror fiction, ensuring the fear on the page is felt by the reader!

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Butcher & Blackbird: A Ruinous Love - Brynne Weaver - Top Book Pick!

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Butcher & Blackbird: A Ruinous Love - Brynne Weaver - Top Book Pick!

Romance/Horror

Rating: 9/10

I don’t often wander into the romance category, but sometimes a girl just needs to get her groove on. So to speak. This tantalizing tale of two vigilante serial killers endlessly trying to out kill each other certainly scratched that itch. Tons of teasing banter, romantic gestures and very spicy bedroom antics build with every page. You know what they say…there’s a lid for every pot!

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Ghost Station - S.A. Barnes

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Ghost Station - S.A. Barnes

Sci-Fi/Horror

Rating: 7.5/10

Dr. Ophelia Bray wakes from frozen sleep still locked into the coffin like tank. Every breath a searing iciness, every muscle stiff and cramped, every sense excruciatingly straining to haul her back to a conscious state. And that’s before she emerges. Before she finds the crew missing and the ship silent. A desolate planet, a derelict ship, a shadowy crew and nothing but endless night. What else do you need in a space horror book?

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Not Enough Hours In The Day...

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Scary Reads To Squeeze In…

Dead Eleven - Jimmy Juliano

You Like It Darker - Stephen King

Heads Will Roll - Josh Winning

Middle Of The Night - Riley Sager

William - Mason Coile

Family Business - Jonathan Sims

The Queen - Nick Cutter

Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin

Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

I Was A Teenage Slasher - Stephen Graham Jone

Lost Man's Lane - Scott Carson

Incidents Around The House - Josh Malerman

Near The Bone - Christina Henry

The White Guy Dies First - Terry Benton-Walker

Mask Of Flies - Matthew Lyons

So Thirsty - Rachel Harrison

The Night Guest - Hildur Knutsdottir

Don’t Eat The Pie - Monique Asher

Devils Kill Devils - Johnny Compton

Dark Sparkles...

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Killer Queens & Badass Babes…

Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder - Kerryn Mayne

She's A Killer - Kirsten McDougall

Loose Lips - Kemper Donovan

Witness 8 - Steve Cavanagth

Havoc - Christopher Bollen

Gaslight - Sara Shepard

Lie To Me - Theo Baxter

Sweet Pea - C.J. Skuse

The Self-Made Widow - Fabian Nicieza

This Girls A Killer - Emma C. Wells

My Husband - Maud Ventura

Follow Me - Elizabeth Rose Queen

You'd Look Better As A Ghost - Joanna Wallace

Blood Sugar - Sascha Rothschild

Best Way To Bury Your Husband - Alexie Casale

No One Will Miss Her - Kat Rosenfield

Rouge - Mona Awad

My Lover's Lover - Maggie O'Farrell

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

So Meta...

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Books For The Bookish…

Book of Doors - Gareth Brown

Secret Lives Of Booksellers & Libarian - James Patterson

Craft: Stories I Wrote For The Devil - Ananda Lima

Babel - R.F. Kuang

No Two Persons - Erica Bauermeister

The Storied Life Of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan

End Of Story - A.J. Finn

Liar's Dictionary-Ellery Williams

The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai

Blank - Zibby Owens

Door To Door Bookstore - Carsten Henn

The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean

The Girl Who Reads On The Metro - Christine Feret-Fleury

The Dictionary Of Lost Words - Pip Williams

The Wishing Game - Meg Shaffer

Lexicon - Max Barry

Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Emma Torzs

The Woman In The Library - Sulari Gentill

The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz - Top Book Pick!

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The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz - Top Book Pick!

Mystery/Suspense

Rating: 9.5/10

Plot (noun): a sequence of events in a narrative, like a novel; an immoral or illegal plan; a designated section of land, as in a gravesite. Trust me on this, you will revisit more than one of these definitions in this brilliantly written novel. You will find yourself ensnared in a tangle of literary treachery and hubris populated by vivid and compelling characters. Should reading be this fun? Hell yeah!

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The Night We Lost Him - Laura Dave

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The Night We Lost Him - Laura Dave

Mystery/Suspense

Rating: 7.5/10

Nora and her estranged brother Sam have one thing in common; they believe that their father’s death wasn’t an accident, they believe something nefarious was at play. And there is no shortage of suspects; a competitor whose attempt at a takeover failed spectacularly, one of his three ex-wives or his business partners who are most definitely keeping secrets. The question is whether they are their own, or his.

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Sociopath:A Memoir - Patric Gagne - Top Book Pick!

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Sociopath:A Memoir - Patric Gagne - Top Book Pick!

Memoir

Rating: 9/10

The author is a sociopath. She has offered her story because she feels it’s essential to illustrate the truth no one wants to admit, that darkness is where you least expect it. Despite the discovery at a young age that she made people uncomfortable, she isn't the serial killer some thought she would be. She is not any kind of killer. She is a wife, a mother, a friend and a therapist. Brutally self aware and honest. My thoughts on this read...wow. Just wow.

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Evocation - S.T. Gibson

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Evocation - S.T. Gibson

Fantasy

Rating: 8.5/10

The devil knows his name. As a teenager, David was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his occultist father. Years later, as he approaches his thirtieth birthday, the Devil comes to collect on an ancestral debt. Desperate times call for desperate measures, forcing him to reach out to his ex-boyfriend and his wife for help. It's been awhile since I found occultist delights like Tarot cards in a read, it was a blast!

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Oh, The Drama...

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Familial(ish) Sagas Of The Fictional Kind…

Finding oneself part of an ideal family or friendship must be a kind of harmonic bliss. The traditions! The matching sweaters! The heart to hearts! But where’s the fun in that? Write about such euphoric contentment and you’re at risk of putting people to sleep. Where’s the misbehaving parent, the pesky sibling, the friend who sucks you into their drama, the crush you love from afar, the drama queens and the bad boys who keep readers turning pages? The spectacle and the discord that propel the plot forward? Right here, that's where!

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Hurricane Blonde - Halley Sutton - Top Book Pick!

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Hurricane Blonde - Halley Sutton - Top Book Pick!

Noir Fiction

Rating: 9/10

Salma, a promising child actor, now spends her days as a guide for the Stars Six Feet Under tour, leading leering fans through star studded streets to the places where actresses of the past met their untimely, and often macabre, ends. A dark and gripping noir that is both a scathing indictment of the cult of celebrity and a brutal unpacking of long kept secrets. So much more than a tragedy about a woman who met a grisly end, it’s also a profound exploration of grief and love.

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Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas - Top Book Pick!

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Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas - Top Book Pick!

Sci-Fi

Rating: 8.5/10

Reader, strap in and hold on! Remember the cult favourite television series Firefly? From the first page to the last, you will be rooting for this messy and lovable found family. A space adventure with a motley crew of ragtag misfits and outcasts that is absolute genius. Full of snarky banter, wickedly wacky fun, and moments that will hit you right in your soft places, read this. You can thank me later.

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Do You Believe In Magic...

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Books With A Touch Of Magic…

Carnivale Of Curioustites - Aimee Gibbs

Spitting Gold - Carmella Lokis

Joyland - Stephen King

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Circus Of Wonders - Elizabeth MacNeal

Wonder Show - Hannah Barnaby

Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Carter Beats The Devil - Glen David Gold

Caraval - Stephanie Garber

First Bright Thing - J.R. Dawson

Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter

Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

The Prestige - Christopher Priest

Magic - William Goldman

Bacchanal - Veronica G Henry

Circus Train - Amita Parikh

The Magicians Lie - Greer Macallister

Binge Fiction...

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Read Like It’s A TV Show…

We Solve Murders - Richard Osman

A Grim Reapers Guide To Catching A Killer - Maxie Dara

Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel

Nightwatching - Tracy Sierra

Kill For Me Kill For You - Steve Cavangh

The Last One At The Wedding - Jason Rekulak

In The Blink Of An Eye - Jo Callaghn

First Lie Wins - Ashley Easton

Middle Of The Night - Riley Sager

Bang Bang Sisters - Rio Youer

I Will Ruin You - Linwood Barclay

The Trap - Ava Glass

The Winner - Teddy Wayne

The Ascent Adam Plantinga

No Road Home - John Fram

Many Lives Of Veronica Hawkins - Kristina Perez

Vacancy In Room 10 - Serephina Nova

The Night Of The Storm - Nishita Parekh

The Party - Natahsa Preston

Make Believe...

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Fantasy In Fiction…

Fairy Tale - Stephen King

The Carnivale of Curiosities - Amiee Gibbs

Babel – R.F. Kuang

Strange Beasts - Susan J. Morris

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

Assistant To The Villian - Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn – Mark Lawrence

Swordcatcher - Cassandra Clare

Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross

Cinder - Marissa Meyer

One Dark Window – Rachel Gillig

These Violent Delights – Chloe Gong

Evocation - S.T. Gibson

How To Become A Dark Lord & Die Trying - Django Wexler

These Dead Prophecies - Andrea Tang

Cursed - Marissa Meyer

A Tempest Of Tea - Hafsah Faizal

The Bone Season – Samantha Shannon

We Love The Nightlife - Rachel Koller Croft

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We Love The Nightlife - Rachel Koller Croft

Horror

Rating: 7.5/10

A vampire story set in the Disco era? I am so here for it. Judge me all you want, I loved Disco. Joyful and effervescent songs…what’s not to love! Amber should have known the party wouldn’t last when Nicola, her maker, casually suggested killing her husband. She made her promise not to harm him. Spoiler alert, vampires lie. I include a suggested Disco Playlist, go ahead and use it, I won't tell.

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Things Don't Break On Their Own - Sarah Easter Collins

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Things Don't Break On Their Own - Sarah Easter Collins

Fiction/Thriller

Rating: 8/10

When Willa arrives to a dinner party thrown by her first love, she has no reason to think it will anything other than an ordinary evening. She could never have predicted that this innocuous gathering would be the thing that would turn her world on its axis. Decidedly it turns out to be anything but ordinary…

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