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Review: The Burial Tide - Neil Sharpson
Genre: Horror Published: Zando Press, September 2025 My Rating: 4.5 stars "Leave the dead. Look after the living." The Story: A woman wakes up inside a wooden coffin six feet underground, with no memory of her identity or supposed “death”. She desperately claws her way to freedom, emerging on the frozen ground of Inishbannock - an island just off the coast of Ireland. Not everyone in the small isolated island-community welcomes Mara’s return though... With the help of a han

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Suspiciously Specific #8: haunted-house-novels, but the house isn't your grandma's gothic mansion...
Echoes - Evie Wyld Genre : literary fiction Pagecount : 304 pages The haunted house is a modern-day appartment... Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. Rose/House - Arkady Martine Genre : sci-fi novella Pagecount : 115 pages The haunted house is a fully-automated futuri

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Reading Horror Novellas until I find a 5-star...
A reading-blog in which I attempt to beat my readingslump by reading recently released horror-novella's until I find a 5-star...

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Review: Ashes of August Manor - Blaine Daigle
Genre: Horror Published: Wicked House Publishing, June 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Everyone deserves to have someone at their side when...

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Review: The Croning - Laird Barron
Genre: Horror Published: Night Shade Books, 2012 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “The deepest cavern in the world is the human heart.” The Croning...

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Review: The Witch of Willow Sound – Vanessa F. Penney
Genre: (cozy) horror Published: ECW Press, September 2025 My rating: 3.5/5 stars I was originally drawn to this novel based on both its...

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Review: Overgrowth - Mira Grant
Genre: Sci-fi, Horror Published: Daphne Press (UK)/ Tor Nightfire (US), May 2025 My Rating: 1/5 stars "We were the weeds of the...

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Review: The Sundowner's Dance - Todd Keisling
Genre: Horror, Supernatural Published: Shortwave Media, April 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars Fans of Iain Reid’s We Spread will delight in...

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Review: Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens – Lynn Hutchinson Lee
Genre: Eco-fiction, horror, novella Published: Stelliform Press, April 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The fen belongs to itself. Like us, it...

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Review: When the Bones Sing - Ginny Myers Sain
Genre: YA paranormal mystery Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, March 2025 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “A feeling that...

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Review: The Nameless Things - Ernest Jensen
Genre: horror Published : Rising Action Publishing, March 2025 My Rating: 1/5 stars I truly wished I could justify a higher rating than...

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Review: The Lamb - Lucy Rose
Genre: Literary Fiction, Horror Published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, February 2025 My Rating: 2/5 stars To start off this review, I have to...

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Review: Root Rot - Saskia Nislow
Genre: Horror Novella Published: Creature Publishing, March 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars “He hadn’t really understood before, he mused...

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Voice like a Hyacinth - Mallory Pearson
Genre: dark academia, horror Published: 47North Publishing, January 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “I was terrified of the possibility: how...

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Review: Woodworm - Layla Martinez
Genre: horror novella Translated: Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott Published: Two Lines Press , May 2024, originally published by...

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Review: The Night Guest - Hildur Knútsdóttir
Genre: horror novella Published: Tor Nightfire, September 2024 (originally published in Icelandic by JPV, 2021) My Rating: 3.5/5...

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Review: The Church Beneath the Roots - Felix Blackwell
Genre : Horror Published: Independently published by the author, March 2024 My Rating: 2/5 stars “He knew not to trust the voices. He...

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Review: Graveyard Shift - M.L. Rio
Genre: Horror Novella Published: Flatiron Books, September 2024 My Rating: 1/5 stars “She learned to live in that permanent twilight of...

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Review: Eynhallow - Tim McGregor
Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction, Frankenstein Retelling Published: Raw Dog Screaming Press, February 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars " Death...

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Review: She's Always Hungry: Stories - Eliza Clark
Genre: Horror Short-Story Collection Published: Faber & Faber, November 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “A teenager longs for perfect skin. A...

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