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Came Outta Nowhere, Didn't It? Author: Laurel Hightower Addy is determined to make it on her own, but the echoing condemnation of her ex-husband continues ringing through her head as she fights a snowstorm, driving alone through West Virginia toward her friends and a horror convention. She’s trying out independence, but her doubts and the worsening road conditions, plus bizarre electrical flickers throughout her car, make her unreasonably grateful for the help of a friendly trucker who gives her his CB and talks to her through the long drive. When he screams and she sees his semi go off the road [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-24T20:55:14-07:00November 24th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, Laurel Hightower, read, reading, supernatural, weird|

Gone to See The River Man

The Cost of Love Author: Kristopher Triana Obsession is a dark thing. What squirms out of its fetid corpse in the night is not love, but violence, desperation, depravity. This, then, is a story of obsession. One tainted by the twins of envy and jealousy, of one woman’s descent into darkness for meaning. Lori has been talking to serial killer Edmund Cox for years. It started with letters, but she has also visited him in prison a few times. The darkness in Edmund that led him to target and torture women, an evil that remains un-repented, corresponds to something in Lori’s [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-17T19:11:16-07:00November 17th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

Immunity

Space Zombies of Bordom Author: Erin Bowman After barely escaping from space-zombies on the inhospitable planet of Achlys, Thea, Coen, and Nova have left behind a burning station and what remained of their reanimated crewmates. They did the right thing, the save-the-world thing, but each is haunted in their own way. Oh, and Thea and Coen are infected, having turned super-human instead of being zombified, thanks to their youth. They are still carriers though, and if they accidentally infect someone else, they could start the entire cycle of violence and killing again. This time, it might not stay contained either. When [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-17T19:07:33-07:00November 12th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, sci-fi, science fiction|