Daughters of the Blue Moon by Millie Abecassis My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'd like to thank the author for sending me a copy of this lovely novella with such a beautiful cover. Just like her husband, Carmine is one of the village hunters. The day she goes searching for a wolf, that…

Hey there! How are you today? As I mentioned in the title, this week was a busy one. Last Saturday we got the latest Covid booster (finally available in Oz) and had to take it easy over the weekend because of the usual side effects: headache, sore arm, tired, sleepy. We had plenty of snac…

Reap, Sow by S.H. Cooper My rating: 5 of 5 stars This week, I got the chance to read an ARC of this awesome novelette, and I was hooked instantly. When Lucky finds herself inside a long corridor with closed doors that have no handles and faceless people who hunt her down, she doesn'…

Trog by Zachary Ashford My rating: 5 of 5 stars Firstly, I want to thank Zachary for sending me an ARC of his upcoming novella. After a traumatic ordeal in the city, Aisha's parents decide to relocate to a property in the middle of nowhere to keep her out of danger. What they don&#…

Static by Stacey L. Pierson My rating: 4 of 5 stars "A nostalgic, dual-timeline trip that twists the ghost story trope into a never-ending groundhog nightmare with deadly revelations." I want to thank Stacey for giving me the chance to read an ARC of this cool novel. Jesse l…

Chopping Spree by Angela Sylvaine My rating: 5 of 5 stars "An explosive, fast-paced slasher that stabs the cult of consumerism in the heart, and twists the blade until it bleeds." I want to thank Angela for giving me the chance to read this awesome novella. Penny lives in Ede…

Short Scares: Two Sentence Horrors Anthology by Lauren Carter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Let me start by saying that I actually have a short scare in this very clever anthology, so I was lucky enough to get an ARC copy. This book contains 69 very cool tales written by some great authors…

In Excess of Dark by Red Lagoe My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've been looking forward to reading this novella for a while, and thanks to Red I got a chance to experience the darkness that is this brilliant story. Karina is still dealing with the death of her father when she heads to the…

Ancient beings, merciless monsters, unearthly creatures, and other beasts roam these pages. A short story collection . When the author of this short story collection reached out, I was excited about reading his latest selection of short stories because I've enjoyed the other ones Calv…

Kosa by John Durgin My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was lucky enough to get my hands on an ARC of this upcoming DarkLit Press title, and I'm so glad I did because it's a darkly addictive read. Kosa lives with Mother in a secluded house in the middle of the forest. She doesn't kno…

Following a traumatic accident, ceramic artist Hesper Dunn trades life in Chicago for the enchanted deserts of New Mexico. But not all is quaint, and it’s far from what it seems. There’s a mystery buried deep in the heart of her new home. Love, guilt, and grief demand that Hesper remain w…

The Quick and the Dead meets Carmilla. When Lillian killed her father, getting the blood out of her dress was the least of her worries. The Native woman on her left will soon prove to be a blessing, or a curse. Just as hope all but evaporates on the cracked earth of the Mojave, a beacon…

Emily has been obsessed with the occult since her mother died, collecting every pagan curio and oddity she can find. Then on the night of her sixteenth birthday, her father gives her a piece of real magic: a beating human heart inside a wooden box. If the gift weren't strange enough…

Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight My rating: 5 of 5 stars We found a copy of this book in one of our local Street Libraries. I didn't know anything about it, but the blurb sounded interesting and the cover caught my eye, so we grabbed it. Nell Barber was a PhD candidate in biologi…

Three friends search for an infamous internet video of an urban legend with devastating consequences; a passionate drummer joins the band of his dreams, or perhaps his nightmares; a man tries to find fame in a world where the mundane call the shots; and a grieving father loses his gri…

Amber Hawthorne and Jolene Morris, roommates and business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home, are drowning in debt. Because both young women have trouble keeping their partying habits in line, they start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive – and th…

Deep in a Wyoming mine, hell awaits. Nat Blackburn is given an offer he can't refuse by President Teddy Roosevelt. Tales of gold in the abandoned mining town of Hecla abound. The only problem - those who go seeking their fortune never return. Along with his constant companion, Teta…

When traveling actors recruited his wife for a plum role, Cody Wilson had no idea they would murder her. Twelve-year-old Willet Black was just as devastated the night the fiends slaughtered everyone he loved. Now Cody and Willet are bent on revenge, but neither of them suspects what th…

Myles Carver is dead. But his estate, Watermere, lives on, waiting for a new Carver to move in. Myles’s wife, Annabel, is dead too, but she is also waiting, lying in her grave in the woods. For nearly half a century she was responsible for a nightmarish reign of terror, and she’s not p…

When 13-year-old Sullivan Carter and his younger brother, Colton, are forced to hide from school bullies in the cundy (a water conduit in Castle Eden Dene), they are attacked by a terrifying creature which goes on to haunt their dreams.  Rumour has it that some older teens have been …