Welcome to Thursday Theatre
Here is where I’ll be posting video clips about books and movies and fun stuff.
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Can you guess what I’m doing this weekend?
Yep! I’m going to go see The Conjouring.
I’m ready to be scared sh!tless
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I’m crossing my fingers that I won’t be disappointed.
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Hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
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What are you currently reading?
Written All Over Her by Mia Darien
One word can change the story of your life forever.
Abduction. Torture. Surrender.
Eleven months from her adolescence have framed thirty-one years of Detective Nykk Marlowe’s life. Despite the trauma of her past, and the unique physical scars it left her with, she’s built a career as a detective for the Adelheid Police Department.
Her personal life might only consist of caring for her sister and a pet rabbit, but she accepts that.
She accepts that she’ll never be able to be like “normal” people, even the supernatural ones. As long as she can keep the past where it belongs, she’s okay.
But when the body of a teenage girl shows up with the same scars that Nykk sees in the mirror every day, her “okay” life gets turned upside down and she’s forced to confront the past she’s been looking away from for sixteen years.
And when it turns out there’s already more than one victim, the pressure’s on to stop the killer before any more girls are tortured, mutilated, and murdered.
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What did you recently finish reading?
The Hunger Chronicles by Tes Hilaire
If you remember nothing else, remember this…
The nightmare is here. There is no way out. Even death isn’t an escape because it is death. And chances are it’s already taken everyone you know.
…You’re on your own.
Just because the face is familiar doesn’t mean they won’t kill you. Hiding won’t help. And it’s past time to run. They’re already here. And hunger is the only thing they feel.
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What do you think you’ll read next?
Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass
Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton founded Tennessee’s world-famous Body Farm—a small piece of land where corpses are left to decay in order to gain important forensic information. Now, in the wake of a shocking crime in nearby Chattanooga, he’s called upon by Jess Carter—the rising star of the state’s medical examiners—to help her unravel a murderous puzzle. But after re-creating the death scene at the Body Farm, Brockton discovers his career, reputation, and life are in dire jeopardy when a second, unexplained corpse appears in the grisly setting.
Accused of a horrific crime—transformed overnight from a respected professor to a hated and feared pariah—Bill Brockton will need every ounce of his formidable forensic skills to escape the ingeniously woven net that’s tightening around him . . . and to prove the seemingly impossible: his own innocence.
So, whatcha readin?
Welcome to My Monday Minis.
This is where I review very short stories and flash fiction.
For today I’ll be telling you about The Harvesters
by Ashley Hill
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You get all of the ingredients for a good horror story. A thunderstorm, a rustic old cabin deep in the woods and some really creepy characters. There’s the huge shambling guy with the axe, the sly shotgun wielding old man, and the creepy kids.
I think the kids creeped me out the most. It had me thinking Blair Witch, when they hear the weird voices outside their tent and the kids giggling and slapping the tent.
The Harvesters is relentless and you land right in the thick of it from the get go.
Ash creeps around in the cellar of the ratty cabin and finally spots her boyfriend, Jason. He’s manacled to a metal table.
From this point on, I girded myself for what was coming.
Ash manages to get his hands free before this huge man throws an axe at her. She heeds Jason’s warning and hightails it but is rushed by a little kid. She sweeps past him and slams the door of the cellar shut behind her.
That’s when she hears the whispering.
She rushes to the truck outside, but, of course, there are no keys. A vision flashes in her head of the keys hanging on a hook inside the cabin.
This is where I wonder what I would’ve done. We know the warnings for these scenes. “Don’t go back inside!” But if your true love is lying in there, helpless, about to be carved up, what else can you do?
So, in she goes again.
From the very beginning it’s a mad dash through this short story.
You’ll get to read about it from two points of view. Ash narrates most of the story, but Jason does have his own side to tell.
Then their story meets again as they struggle to survive multiple attacks with no help for miles in any direction.
I was thinking serial killers or a family of cannibals maybe. I’m still not sure exactly what they wanted from Ash.
That brings me to the ending. It’s a cliffhanger and a big one. I kind of saw it coming, but I think I would have been disappointed if it wrapped up neatly.
This way, I get to look forward to more. I wonder if one of the next books will be about Jason. He has a dark past and I think his story would be harrowing.
We’ll see.
3 Stars
Go here to check out the trailer!
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This is my own version of a weekly bookhaul post where I’ll be telling you about all of the books I got this week, whether print or e-book plus all things new on fuonlyknew.
I got a few books this week, some free, some for review, and some I purchased just for my reading pleasure.
I also post reviews on another blog aknifeandaquill . It’s all about horror. If someone doesn’t die, we don’t do it here!
Here’s some I picked up to review on both blogs. Double exposure for the author:)
Here are some I picked up to review on fuonlyknew.
Got some good ones!
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Books for Review.
Carlie’s just released Heart Search : Found
Read all about it here.
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Going to be on a tour for this one.
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Got these from Mia! Thanks so much. I just reviewed the first three books in the Adelheid Series here.
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I had to have these!
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Books I won.
I did win something this week but haven’t confirmed everything so will tell you all about the great prizes next week!
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Reviewed this week.
Catch my review on my Monday Minis post here.
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My reviews for both books can be found here.
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Review of all three books in one and giveaway on Thursday, July 11th. Go here to check it out and enter!
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Scheduled reviews for this upcoming week.
My review and the giveaway will be on Wednesday, July 17th. Check back!
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My review and the giveaway will be on Thursday, July 18th.
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My review and the giveaway will be on Friday, July 19th.
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Several more reviews and awesome giveaways coming this next week. Be sure to stop by!
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Other posts this week. Just click on the links to see the posts.
Giveaway Tour ~ Box of Infernos
Spotlight Tour ~ Unraveling Lady Fury
Giveaway Tour ~ Reconnaissance
Teaser Tuesdays ~ Creatures of Appetite
Giveaway Blast ~ Over The Rainbow
Giveaway Tour ~ Cassie Scott, Paranormal Detective
Thursday Theatre ~ Remember Dory?
Freakin Fridays ~ Dogs and Cats and Mermaids
Complete Series Cover Reveal ~ The Forces of Nature
Release Day Giveaway ~ Aftermath, Hurricane Book #2
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Go here to find all of my giveaways. Enter one or enter all of them!!
Go here for a list of free e-books.
So what did you get this week? See something you like? Do you have any of these? Leave a comment and let me know.
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To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
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What are you currently reading?
Creatures of Appetite by Todd Travis
They call it The Heartland Child Murders.
Everyone else calls it a nightmare. Locked doors don’t stop him. He leaves no trace behind. He only takes little girls.
His nickname… The Iceman.
A deranged serial killer roams wintry rural Nebraska with a demented purpose no one can fathom. Special Agent EMMA KANE, a former DC cop and damaged goods now with the FBI, is assigned to babysit burnt-out profiler JACOB THORNE, once the best in the business but now said to have lost his edge, as they both fly to Nebraska to catch this maniac.
Thorne is erratic, abrasive and unpredictably brilliant, but what he and Kane find in the heartland is much more than anyone bargained for, especially when the Iceman challenges them personally.
The clock is ticking and a little girl’s life is on the line.
And maybe even more with that, once they find out what he’s really up to.
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What did you recently finish reading?
Dark Deeds by Susan Fleet
True crime: 12 chilling case studies. Meet the victims, their killers and the bloody consequences of their deeds.
No one knows how many serial killers are roaming the United States. Some experts believe they murder as many as 180 people each year. Others say the count may be much higher because some serial killers hide the bodies and they’re never found. A pretty farm girl fed her victims to the hogs
Stalkers far outnumber serial killers. Each year they threaten 3.4 million people in America. Although stalkers may profess love for the objects of their obsession, many seriously injure or kill their “love object.” Eg: You’re the one that I want … to kill.
Domestic homicide is rampant in the US. Women and children rarely kill family members. Men commit the majority of domestic homicides. Some are crimes of passion. Others are carefully calculated. Why bother with a divorce when you can kill your spouse? A cross-dressing doctor murdered his wife to keep his millions.
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What do you think you’ll read next?
Nibble, Nibble, Crunch by Willow Rose
Warning: After reading this story you’ll never be able to look at a snowman the same way again.
In the beginning she thought it was sweet, this snowman who emerged as if from nowhere, but soon the six-year old Emma realizes that this snowman is different … very different.
NIBBLE, NIBBLE, CRUNCH is a horror novella from Willow Rose, author of the International Bestselling horror-series starring the Danish reporter Rebekka Franck. It is not for the faint at heart.
So, whatcha readin?
Freakin Fridays is my own little meme. I’ll be posting about books, movies, and all things scary.
Feel free to join in and do your own Freakin Fridays posts!
Tune in every Friday. Get your scare on!
Let’s have some fun!
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Imagine it. All alone on a planet far, far from home.
It’s a graveyard, the whole planet. And that’s all there is, you and the dead.
You think you are alone, but….you find you’re not.
The hologram you created for a companion doesn’t count. But she should.
She’s the one you’ll need when it comes calling.
I just had to read this book!
The premise is not that far-fetched.
Where will we put the dead in the years to come, when there is no more room to bury them.
This takes place 800 years in the future, when space travel is common, and for some, affordable.
You can come visit your loved ones, or just pay a fee to keep the grave maintained.
Kind of like a theme park for the dead.
That’s where the caretaker, Harvey Crane, comes in.
His job is to maintain the graves and keep the facility up and running, even though no one comes here anymore.
He takes a holographic image from a dead woman’s grave and enhances her so he’ll have someone to talk to. So he won’t feel so alone during his stint on the planet.
When things start going all weird and breaking down, he just thinks the equipment is in need of some maintenance.
But then he keeps seeing something streaking from gravestone to gravestone and he realizes he’s not alone. There’s something else, something monstrous here. And it wants him.
Even if there wasn’t something there, I would probably conjure something up in my half-crazed imagination.
No human contact and the only real voice you hear is your own. You could probably go for days without saying a word.
Who knows how you would handle that. What tricks your mind might play on you.
Except, it’s no trick this time!
The author took this awesome idea and ran with it. I read it in one sitting and had to go right out and get the next book in this series.
The ending was exciting and leads you to wonder, where is this series going next.
I look forward to finding out.
4 Stars
There will be more!
The Cemetery Planet Series
Cemetery Planet
Cemetery Planet II
Cemetery Planet III … Coming Soon
Cemetery Planet IV … Coming Soon
Cemetery Planet – The Complete Series … Coming Soon
About J. Joseph Wright
. Joseph Wright is the author of JACK JAMES AND THE TRIBE OF THE TEDDY BEAR (Book 1), an Amazon #1 bestselling epic science fiction fantasy, and Amazon bestselling Horror Novelettes CEMETERY PLANET and FUGUE. Additionally he has compiled many of his popular shorts into the HORROR FOUR Anthology Series. J. publishes every month a new work and has a big library on Amazon http://amzn.to/14TWLhK.
J. married his soul mate Krystle on October 24th 2007. Although they have no kids yet, J. and Krystle are huge animal lovers. They settled down in the country with 5 acres outside of Portland, Oregon. Krystle, works as a freelance book cover artist and marketing extraordinaire for J., who writes Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror.
You can learn more about the author and his many books here:
Freakin Fridays is my own little meme. I’ll be posting about books, movies, and all things scary.
Feel free to join in and do your own Freakin Fridays posts!
Tune in every Friday. Get your scare on!
Let’s have some fun!
I jus spotted this on youtube and I’m so excited!
More Riddick!
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I have been waiting so long for more of The Chronicles of Riddick.
What do you think?
Is it as bad-ass looking as his other films?
The creatures sure look and sound terrifying and I love my creatures.
Vin Diesel is sexier than ever.
Don’t you love that rumbling voice and those eyes!
Welcome to Thursday Theatre
Here is where I’ll be posting video clips about books and movies and fun stuff.
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* Indie Excellence Awards 2013 – Finalist (Horror) *
* Indie Excellence Awards 2013 – Finalist (Thriller) *
* Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards 2012 – Honorable Mention (Genre Fiction) *
* Coffin Hop Flash Fiction Contest 2012 – First Place *
Synopsis
1989, rural Victoria, Australia. Something is preying upon the township of Howqua Hills. Brian Derwent, head of the local Police Station, must simultaneously grapple with the investigation, his disintegrating personal life and unseen forces that are not of this world.
Part thriller, part crime-fiction, all supernatural horror, The Dark Horde tells of the return of an ancient evil that is neither stoppable nor comprehensible…
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I’ve already reviewed The Dark Horde but am reposting it here for your convenience.
From the opening page to the horror driven end, this story had me riveted.
Howqua Hills is under siege by something. Monster, demon, alien, or creature from another dimension, who knows? They have been waiting, but no more. Out of the shadows they come, the Dark Horde. Hungry for flesh, they thrill to feel our terror and revel in our pain. Want a taste?
“The beast had an acute sense of smell, enabling it to smell the raw terror in the sweat of its quarry. The smell of this human was strong, indulging its senses with delectable wafts. Hungry for the kill, it gripped the wooden handle of the trap door and slowly teased it open. The shrieking cry of its hinges rang out, enhancing the fear of the cornered prey…It entered, scraping its clawed feet across each wooden step with calculated intent to terrify… Two down, one to go.”
The action is intense and relentless and the creatures are absolutely terrifying. Want a bit more?
“It glared at them with red, hate-filled eyes the shape of swollen slits as its bloodied snout curled to reveal a chaotic array of sharpened teeth. It grinned.”
Able to manipulate our minds, they invade our dreams with heart-stopping nightmares. I was worried they would invade my dreams. I read this book in one sitting and finished in the wee hours. Maybe it was because I was sleep deprived, but I didn’t remember dreaming. However, there are many more nights to come.
Brewin’ is a master at making you afraid of the dark. I suggest you sleep with a flashlight!
5 Stars
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For a limited time, you can get The Dark Horde for only 99cents and free for amazon prime members!
I loved this book and this is a steal!
Get yours here.
About Brewin’
Brewin’ knew he wanted to be a writer when he was only seven and that has shaped his life. A gift from his brothers of a Role Playing Game Book was a pivotal moment in his life. Game books(along with role-playing games) made him the writer he is today. The last third of his first published novel, Evermore: An Introduction, is a choose-your-own-adventure and his second novel, The Dark Horde, has one of the characters from Evermore in it. For more about Brewin’ and his work visit:
Do you have your flashlight handy?
