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Short Story Review: Ushers - Joe Hill
Genre: Horror Short Story (28 pages) Published: Amazon Originals for Kindle, November 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars “People die. I don’t...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Of the Flesh - A Horror Anthology by Susan Barker and others
Genre: Horror Short Stories, Anthology Published: The Borough Press, October 2025 Overall rating: 3/5 stars Although (horror) anthologies...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Small Ghost - Trista Mateer
Genre: Poetry Published: Central Avenue Poetry, September 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars <i>” it's strange all the things you forget about...
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Review: She's Always Hungry - Eliza Clark
“A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Each of...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Mystery Lights - Lena Valencia
Genre: Horror, Short-stories Published: Tin House Publishing & Dreamscape Audio, August 2024 My Rating: 2/5 stars Drawn in by the...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: This Skin was Once Mine - Eric LaRocca
Genre: Horror Short-stories/Novella's Published: Titan Books, April 2024 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars "The worst thing a person can do after...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Monstrum - Lottie Mills
Genre: Magical Realism, Short Stories Published: Oneworld Publications, May 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars “Then she takes her husband’s hand,...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Bloom - Delilah S. Dawson
Genre: Horror, Romance, Novella Published: Titan Books, November 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars I haven’t been thís annoyed by a protagonist,...
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Poetry 1. Ariel – Sylvia Plath The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy',...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit - Jen Campbell
Genre: Poetry Published: Bloodaxe Books, September 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars, potential new all-time favourite <I>"The hospital is not a...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Night Side of the River - Jeanette Winterson
Genre: Short stories, Literary horror Published: Atlantic Grove Press, October 24t 2023 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars With a seasoned name like...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: We Are All So Good At Smiling - Amber McBride
Genre: Novel in Verse Published: Feiwel Friends, January 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars "My point is that a leaf knows it’s important at all...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Corpse Beneath the Crocus - N.N. Nelson
Genre: modern poetry Published: Atmostphere Press, February 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars “I am haunted, by the ghost of the future I wanted”...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Crossroads - Laurel Hightower
Genre: Horror, Novella Published: Fireside Horror, August 2020 My rating: 4/5 stars "The first time Chris buried a part of herself by her...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on - Franny Choi
Genre: Poetry Published: Ecco Press, November 2022 My rating: 3.5/5 stars "By the time the apocalypse began, the world had already...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Genre: magical realism, literary fiction Published: Picador Press, September 2019, (first published December 2015 in the original...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Seven Empty Houses - Samanta Schweblin
Genre: Short Story Collection, Literary Horror Published: One World Publications (US) & Riverhead Books (UK), October 2022, originally...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
Genre: Literary Fiction, Sci-Fi, Short-Stories Published: Bloomsbury Publishing, January 18th 2022 My Rating: 4/5 stars “It’s strange how...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong
Genre: Poetry Published: Jonathan Cape UK, April 7th 2022 My Rating: 5/5 stars Ocean Vuong had absolutely nothing to prove to me, and...
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The Fiction Fox
Review: The Smallest of Bones - Holly Lyn Walrath
Genre: Poetry Published: CLASH Books, September 2021 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Hiding our hearts is easy when we have so many bones" Few ...
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