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Eat The Ones You Love

“Lay waste to yourself all you like, I will grown in your ruin.” Author: Sarah Maria Griffin There is nothing more attractive to a horror-hound/B-movie monster lover than the idea of a sentient, carnivorous plant. It evokes the lovably laughable Little Shop of Horrors while still hitting all the right tones of horror. After all, what is more terrifying than being secretly observed and puppeted by something that should be so ordinary, so innocuous? And that, dear reader, was the siren call that led me to this book. Well, that and the gorgeous cover. What it promises (feed me Seymour!) is [...]

2025-11-03T15:32:10-07:00November 3rd, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Heads

Evil '80s Science and Rebellious Disembodied Heads Author: David Osborn Over fifteen years ago now, I purchased a huge eBay mystery book lot that just keeps giving. What’s better than horror novels, you ask? Old horror novels, with ridiculous names, 80s style covers, and enough camp to keep a horror hound happy. That’s where David Osborn’s Heads comes into play. It was the next in the still astonishingly huge pile. The story follows an unethical, secret lab with hot doctors who like to experiment on supposed “volunteers.” Now, back in the 80s, the whole idea of cryogenics and head freezing and [...]

2025-10-20T11:10:17-07:00October 20th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , |

Lure

Revenge of the Old Gods Author: Tim McGregor In the chapel of a lonesome fishing village, the bones of a monster hang over the beleaguered worshipers. In this place, the chapel is not popular, and the tithes that keep the priest and his children alive rarely come in. The villagers themselves are hardly doing better, eking out an existence at the behest of the tremulous waves. They think their luck has changed, however, when a luremaid (mermaid) appears offshore one day, and the men of the town decide to hunt, capture, and imprison the creature. And their luck does change . [...]

2025-10-18T11:24:45-07:00October 18th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |
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