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ARC Book Review: Inside by D.M. Siciliano
I hope you are all ready to sit in the corner and rock your way through this review. Inside, looked like the poster for the latest horror movie – this apt title hides the deeper meaning to the story. Huge revelations, relationships pulled so taut that they threaten to snap. This book has you standing on the precipice of hell, the flames threatening to lick at your heels, the heat seducing you within. A house is just bricks and mortar, right? Ha! the house was built with the devils’ hands, each brick more evil than the last. The house embodies a threatening shadow using your fears to destroy and weaken…
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Blog Tour: The Damned (The Darkest Hand Trilogy #1) by Tarn Richardson
Thanks to Anna@Red Door Publishing for my spot on the blog tour and the author for a copy of the book. All my thoughts are unbiased and honest. When I received the email with the synopsis of this book how could I say no? Pegged as gothic horror…it already had me by the scruff of my neck and as I delved further and further into this twisted and deviant tale it had fully sunk its claws into me. Move over Dan Brown, the gothic horror genre has a new poster boy, Tarn Richardson. This is the first book in The Darkest Hand Trilogy and I for one am fully invested…
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Blog Tour: Slash by Hunter Shea
Thanks to Anne @Random things through my letterbox for my spot on the blog tour and the publisher for my copy of the book. All thoughts are unbiased and honest. Instantly the book cover grabs you by the balls and you can feel the pain and fear that this novel is going to subject you to. Slash examines survival, plain and simple. The idea that lightening couldn’t possibly strike twice is the primary theme. This book is more than happy to pack up its things and move home into other genres. This is a book that goes between Slasher, horror and thriller. It reminded me a lot of the Friday…
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10 Under-rated Horror books to Binge-read Before Halloween
It’s THE season of the year!! Summer is officially over and we can look forward to fluffy jumpers, blankets and bedding. The leaves are changing, it’s getting colder and its getting awesome. Forget the BBQ’s, get out the costumes instead. It’s the perfect time for digging out those seriously scary reads. Turn off the light, get cozy and be prepared to get seriously spooked by this list of underrated creepy books. What better way is there to get prepared for Halloween? Blindness by Jose Saramago From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no…
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6 of the Best Books set in Scotland
Scotland has seen a resurgence in tourism and literary interest due to books such as Outlander and Crime fiction novels. Scotland has a rich history in the literacy world from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. Scotland can lend itself to the supernatural or those bleak moments in human existence – there are no limitations to the inspiration that can be gleamed from Scotland and its beautiful culture. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Written in the 90’s, this franchise has been brought alive on screen and has seen an increase in tourism due to the Outlander effect. Outlander tells the…
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Review : The Deep by Nick Cutter
Oh be still my beating heart! I’ve just finished The Deep and I’m sat here wondering just what the actual fuck I have just read?! This has been my first read in the horror genre for many years and god what a book to have picked. This book was Bone- Chillingly terrifying, my heart wanted to escape from within my chest it was beating that hard. The book has been described as a mix of The Abyss and The Shining and that comparison has nailed this story. This is classic horror writing at it’s very best – Gruesome, Real and Frightening. The story develops very human emotions to fear with…
