Liesmith
Book 1 of The Wyrd
Alis Franklin
Random House Publishing Group – Hydra
7th October2014
ISBN:9780553394610
Price: 2.99USD
Edition: Other Format
Category Archives: Horror
July reviews: part 2
Just a few books this time round. There’s a bit of variety in this set of reviews. Enjoy.
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June reviews:part two
I’m back with a couple more reviews.
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Friday evening zombies
Since I’ve felt more dead than alive for the last week, and I managed to catch Resident Evil: Extinction on the telly last night, I thought I’d have a film evening today. Zombie films. New ones I haven’t seen before.Continue reading “Friday evening zombies”
Review: ‘The Last Werewolf’ by Glen Duncan
6th February 2014
Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781782112662
£7.99
Paperback
Jacob Marlow has lived for 200 years, a werewolf bitten in Snowdonia while on a walking holiday. Now he’s the last of the species. He’s hunted by an organisation, WOCOP, known as the Hunt, dedicated to the eradication of all supernatural entities, including werewolves, vampires and demons. He’s also being hunted by the vampires, who are looking for a way to walk in daylight.
Jacob doesn’t care. He’s tired of living. When his only friend is murdered by the Hunt he can’t find the energy to fight.
Until something he thought was dead, had died in him long before, returns. Love. With new incentive Jacob decides he has to live.
At this point it all goes to hell.
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Review: ‘Ranger Martin and The Zombie Apocalypse’ by Jack Flacco
Review: ‘The House on Blackstone Moor’
Carole Gill
Creativia
2013
When nineteen year old Rose Baines returns home from visiting a dying aunt and finds her Mother, sister, and brother massacred by her mad, abusive ex-barrister and now dead Father, her life falls apart.
First she’s shipped off to Bedlam and then, through the intervention of a suspiciously understanding doctor, to Marsh Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire. Through the good offices of a patroness of the asylum she gets a position as governess to two children at a house on the moors.
Not everything is as it seems; Miss Baines must defeat the ultimate evil and suffer terribly before she takes a final decision and finds love and a measure of peace.
Review: The Best British Fantasy 2013
Editor: Steve Haynes
Salt Publishing
2013
Contributors:
Jon Wallace Lavie Tidhar Joseph D’Lacey
E. J. Swift Carole Johnstone Cheryl Moore
Steph Swainston Kim Larkin-Smith Mark Morris
Cate Gardner Sam Stone Alison Littlewood
Simon Kurt Unsworth Lisa Tuttle Simon Bestwick
Tyler Keevil Adam L. G. Nevil
Review: ‘Darker Minds. An anthology of Dark Fiction’ by various authors
July 2012
Dark Minds Press
I found this collection of short stories in the library; I wish I’d left it there. Not because it’s bad but because the stories are so effectively creepy I’ve given myself a new set of nightmares. Which I don’t need, thanks a lot for asking.
If you like dark fiction and psychological stuff it’s a great collection but I’m a wuss and only managed to read four of the fifteen takes. The artwork throughout is sufficiently weird and is well drawn.
Bye
Rose
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