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Review: The Pecan Children - Quinn Connor
Genre: Magical Realism, Mystery, Horror Published: Sourcebooks Landmark, June 2024 My Rating: 3/5 stars Last year around this time I...

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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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Review: Point Nemo - Jeremy Robinson
Genre: Sci-fi, Action Published: Breakneck Media, April 2024 My Rating: 2.5-ish...? Alright, how do I frame this review…? Point Nemo was…...

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Review: The Deading - Nicholas Belardes
Genre: (eco-) horror, sci-fi Published: Erewhon Books, July 2024 My rating: 1/5 stars Plus 0,5 stars for the incredible premise, minus...

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Review: Godfall - Van Jensen
Genre: Sci-fi, Mystery/thriller Published: Independently Published by the author, May 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Sleeping Giants meets a...

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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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Review: Supplication - Nour Abi-Nakhoul
Genre: horror Published: Strange Light by Penguin Random House, May 2024 My Rating: 1/5 stars Although I usually don’t rate my DNF’s,...

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Review: Where I End - Sophie White
Genre: Literary fiction, Horror Published: Kensington Books, September 2024, Originally published by Tramp Press, October 2022 My Rating:...

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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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Review: A Botanical Daughter -
Genre: Magical realism, horror, classics-retold Published: Titan Books, March 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars “A family! Simon, of course!...

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Review: The Fisherman - John Langan
Genre: Horror Published: Word Horde, June 2016 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “But there are some things, no matter if they’re true, you can’t...

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Review: Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Genre: horror Published: NL: Luitingh Sijthoff, 2019, USA: Tor Nightfire, 2022 My Rating: 1/5 stars “There are holes in the ice. They...

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Review: Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Genre: Horror Published: NL: Luitingh Sijthoff, April 2013, USA: Tor, April 2016 My Rating: 1/5 stars “Every last grain of idealism...

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Review: Leech - Hiron Ennes
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi/Speculative Fiction Published: Tor, September 2022 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "Despite logical input from a conscious...

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Review: Mothtown - Caroline Hardaker
Genre: Magical Realism, Horror, Speculative Published: Angry Robot Press, November 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars “No. This was a truth that I...

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Review: A Haunting in the Arctic - C.J. Cooke
Genre: Historical Fiction, mystery/thriller Published: HarperCollins, October 2023 (UK) My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “I mean, I literally don’t...

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Review: Jackal - Erin A. Adams
Genre: Horror Published: Bantam, October 2022 My Rating: 2/5 stars “Myths are as much a part of the slipstream of Black life as joy. ...

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Review: What Stalks Among Us - Sarah Hollowell
Genre: Young Adult Horror Published: Clarion Books, September 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars Although YA-horror isn’t my typical genre, every...

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Horror Recommendations by subgenre
Up until about 5 or 6 years ago, horror was a genre I actively avoided. Having my only exposure to it as a child/young teen being the cheesy spooks of the Goosebumps-books, I never really developed a taste for them. Then, a few years ago, well into my personal reading-renaissance, I suddenly found myself possessed by the spirit of horror and delved deep into the dark, gothic and chilling side of fiction. As of today, horror is probably in my top-5 genres from which I read the

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Review: A Haunting on the Hill - Elizabeth Hand
Genre: Gothic horror Published: Mulholland Books, October 3rd 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Do you know why certain houses make people...

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