Category: Horror

Dread Wood – Flock Horror by Jennifer Killick

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Welcome to Dread Wood High.  

It’s a scream …

Angelo and his friends have already defeated some seriously creepy creatures. But there’s no time to chill as a terrifying new enemy appears in the skies … giant vampire birds that feast on BLOOD!

Have Club Loser met their match with this fearsome flock of bloodsucking beasts?  It’s time for the ultimate battle to take flight …

DREAD WOOD – FLOCK HORROR was released in the United Kingdom on 2nd March 2023.  Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Dread Wood Fear Ground by Jennifer Killick

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Welcome to Dread Wood High.  

It’s a scream …

Flinch is a game of fear.  The more you scare your friends, the more points you get on the app.  But things are about to get WEIRD … 

Angelo and his friends start to investigate who is behind the game.  Is it the people wearing the super-creepy clown masks?  With adrenaline pumping and the fair arriving in town, it’s time for the REAL games to begin!

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Rules For Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

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Once a year, a road appears in the woods at midnight and the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons, inviting those who are brave enough to play her game.  If you win, you escape with your life.  But if you lose …

It’s almost a year since Becca went missing.  Everyone else has given up searching for her, but her sister, Sara, knows she disappeared while looking for Lucy Gallows.  Determined to find her, Sara and her closest friends enter the woods.  But something more sinister than ghosts lurks on the road, and not everyone will survive.  

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The Maker Of Monsters by Lorraine Gregory

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Brat has always lived in the isolated castle on the island, taking care of the vicious creatures that his master creates, waiting in terror for the moment when they are ready to be put to use.  But then the unthinkable happens.  The monsters get out.  Now Brat must overcome his features, and venture into the world he has hidden from his whole life.  For the fate of the everyone rests on his shoulders alone …  

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Good Girls Die First by Kathryn Foxfield

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THE NIGHT BEGAN WITH BLACKMAIL:

Eight o’clock.  Portgrave Pier.  Can you keep a secret?

Ten teenagers lured to a derelict carnival.  Each one with a dark past they are determined to keep hidden.  As they start to die, is it an unknown killer they need to fear … or each other?

Mind games.  Murder.  Mayhem.

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SURVIVE THE NIGHT?

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The Language Of Dying by Sarah Pinborough

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Tonight is a special terrible night.

A woman sits at her father’s bedside, watching the clock tick away the last hours of his life.  Her brothers and sisters – all broken, their bonds fragile – have been there for the past week, but now she is alone.

And that’s when it always comes

The clock ticks, the darkness beckons.

If it comes at all.

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Embassy Of The Dead: Hangman’s Crossing by Will Mabbitt

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Welcome to the Embassy of the Dead.

Leave your life at the door.  (Thanks).

Awarded an official position working for the Embassy of the Dead, Jake’s job is to protect souls in need.  But journeying deep into the mysterious world of ghosts, Jake overhears a plot to destroy the very fabric between the land of the living and the dead.

With a ghostly gang at his side Jake must do the impossible.  He has to be a hero.  His life – and the fate of EVERYONE ON EARTH – depends on it …

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The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

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When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes.  After all, how bad could it be?

Answer: pretty bad.  Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish.  That would be horrific enough, but there’s more – Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants … until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.

Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors – because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you.  And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.

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Dancing Jax by Robin Jarvis

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Some books should be banned or destroyed.  This is the story of one of them …

In a coastal town, a strange, out-of-print children’s book is found, full of colourful stories of castles, knights and unicorns.  But the book is no fairytale.  Written by Austerly Fellows, a mysterious turn-of-the-century occultist, it is no mere entertainment.  In fact, those who start it find that they just can’t put it down, no matter how much they may want to. 

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The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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”I used to think to make people feel afraid was a curse, an awful thing … But I’d love for them to fear me … I want them to look at me and weep.”

On the even of their divining, the day Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are to discover their fate, they’re captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Vallarta.

Far away from their beloved Traveller community, and forced to work in the harsh castle kitchens, Lil finds some comfort in the storm-eyed Mira, a fellow slave who she’s drawn to in ways she doesn’t understand.  But too soon she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying man of myth, who takes girls as gifts.

They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate …  

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The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

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At eighteen, Somlata married into the Mitras: a once noble Bengali household whose descendants have taken to pawning off the family gold to keep up appearances.

When Pishima, the embittered matriarch, dies, Somlata is the first to discover her aunt-in-law’s body – and her sharp-tongued ghost.

First demanding that Somlata hide her gold from the family’s prying hands, Pishima’s ghost continues to wreak havoc on the Mithras.  With secrets spilt and cooking spoilt, Somlata finds herself at the centre of the chaos.  And as the family teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, it looks as though it’s up to her to fix it.

The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die is a frenetic, funny and fresh novel about three generations of Mitra women, a jewellery box and the rickety family they hold together.

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The Taking Of Annie Thorne by C. J. Tudor

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Then

One night, my little sister went missing.  There were searches, appeals.  Everyone thought the worst.  And then, miraculously, she came back.  She couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say what had happened.  But she wasn’t the same afterwards. She wasn’t my Annie.  Sometimes my own little sister scared me to death.

Now

The email arrives in my inbox:

I know what happened to your sister.  It’s happening again … 

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The Anomaly by Michael Rutger

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They sought the truth.

They found a nightmare.

A TV crew arrives at the Grand Canyon led by Nolan Moore, amateur archaeologist and host of The Anomaly Files.  Following the trail of a turn of the century explorer, the team seek proof of a hidden cave within the canyon, filled with ancient treasures.

At first, it seems that, once again, the crew will be returning to LA empty-handed.  But then their luck turns.  They find a cave – and artefacts beyond their wildest imaginations.  But quickly the team’s elation descends into a nightmare as they become trapped within the cavern’s dark passages with little possibility of escape.

Then events take an even more terrifying turn.

For not all secrets are meant to be found …

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Blood Cruise by Mats Strandberg

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On the Baltic Sea, no one can hear you scream …

Tonight, twelve hundred expectant passengers have joined the booze-cruise between Sweden and Finland.  The creaking old ship travels this same route, back and forth, every day of the year. 

But this trip is going to be different.

In the middle of the night the ferry is suddenly cut off from the outside world.  There is nowhere to escape.  There is no way to contact the mainland.  And no one knows who they can trust.

Relationships are about to be tested.  Ordinary people are forced to become heroes.  But what happens this night may also bring out the worst in people …

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The Hunger by Alma Katsu

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After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads.  It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make a choice.  They face two diverging paths which lead to the same destination.  One is well-documented – the other untested, but rumoured to be short.  His decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with him

The searing heat of the desert gives way to biting winds and a bitter cold that freezes the cattle where they stand. Driven to the brink of madness, the ill-fated group struggles to survive and minor disagreements turn into violent confrontations.  Then the children begin to disappear. As the survivors turn against each other, a few begin to realise that the threat they face reaches beyond the fury of the elements to something more primal, and far more deadly …  

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Embassy Of The Dead by Will Mabbitt

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Jake usually likes to stay out of trouble. But when he opens a strange box containing a severed finger, trouble comes knocking at his door.  Literally.  Jake has summoned a reaper to drag him to the Eternal Void (yep, it’s as deadly as it sounds) and his only option is to RUN FOR HIS LIFE! 

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The Woman In The Mirror by Rebecca James

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1947

Governess Alice Miller loves Winterbourne the moment she sees it towering over the wild Cornish cliffs.  The house promises refuge from her past – and her charges, motherless twins Constance and Edmund, are angelic.

2018

Adopted at birth, Rachel’s roots are a mystery. So, when a letter brings news of the death of an unknown relative, Rachel travels to Cornwall, vowing to uncover her family’s secrets.

With each new arrival, something in Winterbourne stirs.  It’s hiding in the paintings.  It’s sitting on the stairs.  It’s waiting in a mirror, behind a locked door … 

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The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis

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”The most dreadful monster ever created came ashore at Whitby …”

When orphans Ben and Jennet arrive in their new seaside home, they soon discover that it is a very extraordinary place. And with mysterious creatures on the shore and a deadly beast prowling the streets, it becomes clear that Aunt Alice and her friends are also not quite what they seem.  

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I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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You thought you had put your worst mistake behind you.

It’s still there. 

Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has gone too. This is a place with no sun. No god.

Just four families remain. Each has done something to bring them here – each denies they deserve it. Until they see what’s coming over the horizon, moving irrevocably towards them. Their worst mistake. Their darkest fear.

And for just one of them, their homecoming. 

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The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy

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Hell on earth is only a click away.

The dark net is a shadowland where criminals operate anonymously online.  Or so they think.  A demonic force is hacking their minds, and now it’s threatening to invade the real world …

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Faeries, Fiends & Flying Saucers edited by Kirsty Capes

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An anthology of sci-fi, fantasy and horror stories, and non-fiction by English and Creative Writing undergraduates at Brunel University London.  

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