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Benjamin’s Parasite

The Enemy Inside You Author: Jeff Strand Benjamin has a problem. At first it started with candy bars. Several hundred a day to be exact. And then, well, let’s just say his desire for his wife has grown a bit extreme and far too kinky. But there are other things too that are more disturbing than all this. Benjamin is changing. Benjamin is losing control, and it’s all thanks to a little buddy escaped from a laboratory that is pulling the strings, calling the shots, and yeah, kind of killing its host. Benjamin is not having a good time. And it’s [...]

Frances Carden2023-02-04T16:18:09-07:00February 4th, 2023|Tags: body horror, book review, Comedy, dark comedy, horror, Jeff Strand, read, reading|

Bedbugs

Infestation & Madness Author: Ben H. Winters Boy meets girl. Boy and girl have adorable daughter. Girl quits job to be an artist. Girl insists they move. Boy and girl find suspiciously low priced, perfect apartment. Girl goes mad. Horror ensues. It’s the old, old story, no less enjoyable because we like that old story. What is better than a too-good-to-be true apartment with an eccentric landlady, a locked basement, a disturbing smell in the perfect artist-nook room, and paranoia inducing imaginary bugs on a mission? Susan, the wife in the story, has quit her job, with her husband’s approval, to [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-17T23:04:57-07:00January 29th, 2023|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

Wednesday’s Child

Community Secrets and Unlikable Characters Authors: Deborah and Joel Shlian Leigh Novak has left the stress of a city emergency room and the fallout of her husband’s suicide behind, moving herself and her struggling young son, Jeremy, to a small town in northern California. Leigh is taking over from the current town doctor, sliding into what she presumes will be a low stress, easy life. When she shows up on her first day to find the old doctor in a coma, however, things go from bad to worse. After loosing her first patient, a young child that she should have been [...]

Frances Carden2023-01-29T12:04:16-07:00January 29th, 2023|Tags: 80s, abuse, book review, horror, read, reading|