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Books From The Back Log #54 ~ Island Of The Forbidden

Posted: October 29, 2020 in horror, Meme
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Island Of The Forbidden

by Hunter Shea

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Genre: Horror

Synopsis

Sometimes, the dead are best left in peace.

Jessica Backman has been called to help a strange family living on a haunted island in Charleston Harbor. Ormsby Island was the site of a brutal massacre two decades ago, and now the mysterious Harper family needs someone to exorcise the ghosts that still call it home. The phantoms of over one hundred children cannot rest.
But something far more insidious is living on the island. When the living and the dead guard their true intentions, how can Jessica discover just what sort of evil lurks on Ormsby Island? And why is Jessica the only one who can plumb its dark depths?

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I added this back on February 2015.

Hunter Shea is one of my favorite horror authors and I was surprised to find I’d not read this book.

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Books From The Back Log #53 ~ The Deep by Nick Cutter

Posted: October 22, 2020 in horror
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The Deep

by Nick Cutter

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Genre: Horror

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down.…old-school horror at its best”—comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.

A strange plague called the ’Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget—small things at first, like where they left their keys…then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily…and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as “ambrosia” has been discovered—a universal healer, from initial reports. It may just be the key to a universal cure. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. But now the station is incommunicado, and it’s up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.

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I added this back on November 2014.

I really enjoyed his other book, The Troop. This one sounds just as thrilling.

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Books From The Back Log #52 ~ The King Of Bones And Ashes

Posted: August 27, 2020 in Fantasy
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The King Of Bones And Ashes

Witches Of New Orleans #1

by J. D. Horn

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Genre: Fantasy

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of the Witching Savannah series comes the first book in a fascinating trilogy following the quest of a young witch to uncover her family’s terrifying secret history…

Magic is seeping out of the world, leaving the witches who’ve relied on it for countless centuries increasingly hopeless. While some see an inevitable end of their era, others are courting madness—willing to sacrifice former allies, friends, and family to retain the power they covet. While the other witches watch their reality unravel, young Alice Marin is using magic’s waning days to delve into the mystery of numerous disappearances in the occult circles of New Orleans. Alice disappeared once, too—caged in an asylum by blood relatives. Recently freed, she fears her family may be more involved with the growing crisis than she ever dared imagine.

Yet the more she seeks the truth about her family’s troubled history, the more she realizes her already-fragile psyche may be at risk. Discovering the cause of the vanishings, though, could be the only way to escape her mother’s reach while determining the future of all witches.

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I added this back on December 2017.

New Orleans and witches! I’m in!

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Books From The Back Log #51 ~ Semiosis

Posted: August 20, 2020 in Science Fiction, Uncategorized
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Semiosis

Semiosis Duology #1

by Sue Burke

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Genre: Science Fiction

Synopsis

In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance.

Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet’s sentient species and prove that mammals are more than tools.

Forced to land on a planet they aren’t prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive. The planet provides a lush but inexplicable landscape–trees offer edible, addictive fruit one day and poison the next, while the ruins of an alien race are found entwined in the roots of a strange plant. Conflicts between generations arise as they struggle to understand one another and grapple with an unknowable alien intellect.

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I added this back on March 2018.

I just finished a really good science fiction series and this will be the perfect next one to try!

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Books From The Back Log #50 ~ Dark Rising

Posted: August 13, 2020 in horror
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Dark Rising

by Vincenzo Bilof

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Genre: Horror

Synopsis

An ancient creature lies dormant in the far reaches of the Pacific Ocean.

Anna Vivaldi has never forgotten the disappearance of her mother, but at least she has the money and courage to find closure. But she’ll need the only survivors from her mother’s expedition: Whitmore, the drunken captain who lost something precious on the first voyage, and Nightingale, the man who had whisked Anna’s mother away on a search for something ancient and terrible.

On the vast ocean. In the haunted past. Wanted by millionaire treasure hunters and scientists. A thing that should not be real. An island of mysteries. An abyss of death. PREPARE FOR A DARK RISING.

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I added this back on October 2014.

Ooh, look at the tentacles on the cover! I eat up stories like this!

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Books From The Back Log #49 ~ Monstrumologist

Posted: August 6, 2020 in Historical, horror
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Monstrumologist

by Rick Yancey

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Genre: Horror / Historical

Synopsis

These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.

So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphaned assistant to Dr. Pellinore Warthorpe, a man with a most unusual specialty: monstrumology, the study of monsters. In his time with the doctor, Will has met many a mysterious late-night visitor, and seen things he never imagined were real. But when a grave robber comes calling in the middle of the night with a gruesome find, he brings with him their most deadly case yet.

A gothic tour de force that explores the darkest heart of man and monster and asks the question: When does man become the very thing he hunts?

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I added this back on March 2013.

This one grabbed me from the synopsis and I ordered a print copy. Just now found it hidden in a pile of books in my guest bedroom. You can bet I won’t be letting it get buried again!

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There are several alternative covers for this one.

This is the one I own.

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Books From The Back Log #48 ~ The Unraveling

Posted: July 30, 2020 in Fantasy, Science Fiction, steam punk
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The Unraveling

The Luminated Threads #1

by Laurel Wanrow

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Genre: Science Fiction / Steampunk / Fantasy

Synopsis


In 1868 England, artist Annmar Masterson dreams of owning her own illustration shop, which the city’s ruthless industrial magnate would willing give her—but not for proper work. She flees his loathsome advances and takes advertising work on a farm in a secluded valley.

Life in the countryside turns nineteen-year-old Annmar’s world upside down. Her lifelong fanciful visions of blue threads are every bit as real as the plant and animal shifters hiding their lives from the rest of Victorian England. The secretive folk with their strange powers might not fit Annmar’s proper city ways, but the attentions of shapeshifter Daeryn Darkcoat have Annmar re-thinking how proper she wants to be.

But their timing is wretched. Daeryn is up to his whiskers fighting against a terrifying scourge. If the farm succumbs, Annmar’s job is over. Her magic might help stop the pests…if she can learn to use it properly. If not, she’ll be forced to leave the people she has come to care for and become what she fears most: nothing more than another cog in the city magnate’s gears.

THE UNRAVELING is Volume 1 of a 3-part serialized novel for readers 15+, mixing steampunk, fantasy, shapeshifters and romantic adventure in a historical setting.

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I added this back on June 2015.

I enjoy stories about witches and this has quite the blend of genres. It’s got me so curious!

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Books From The Back Log #47 ~ The Sisters

Posted: July 16, 2020 in horror, suspense
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The Sisters

A Dark Forces Series

by Don Sloan

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Genre: Suspense / Horror

Synopsis

In this book, written in the style of Stephen King,, two young people on vacation in a small New England seacoast town battle unspeakable horror and solve a hundred-year-old mystery. Fourteen Victorian mansions whisper dark secrets among themselves, and a dangerous shadow roams up and down the wide, wintry boulevard in search of new prey.

In this gripping horror and suspense novel, Nathan and Sarah must battle the mysterious dark forces that inhabit the fourteen Victorian houses that lie along Beach Avenue. They are The Sisters, and they whisper terrible secrets to each other — ensnaring the young couple in a web of terror and suspense.

Who is The Keeper, and what is his connection to the malicious Shadow that wreaks unspeakable violence and mayhem up and down the oceanfront? Can Nathan and Sarah, who somehow discover love amid the violence, defeat this century-old abomination? Don’t read this book at night, unless you want nightmares.

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I added this back on April 2017.

I do love a haunted house story and this has a bunch of them!

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Books From The Back Log #46 ~ Bitter Cold

Posted: July 9, 2020 in horror
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Bitter Cold

by J. Joseph Wright

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Genre: Horror

Synopsis

Journalist April Murray always went after her stories with the tenacity of a pit-bull, only she never thought she’d be covering her own demise. Braving a winter storm, in a sleepy Oregon town, she investigates a possible radiation leak at a defunct nuclear plant. What starts as a routine assignment takes an ominous turn when a boy is attacked by a lethal and mysterious predator that lurks in the snow, turning it black as night. With the help of a local handyman and his son, April finds herself in a battle for her life, and soon discovers the ravenous creature living in the frost isn’t the only one who wants her dead. BITTER COLD…Don’t go into the snow.

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I added this back on June 2013.

After reading the synopsis, I find it hard to believe I haven’t got to this one yet. It has all of the elements I love in a scary good creature feature. I can’t wait to find out what it is!

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Books From The Back Log #45 ~ Terror

Posted: July 2, 2020 in thriller
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Terror

by Eamonn Hickson

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Genre: Thriller

Synopsis

Have you ever felt that society consciously tries to undermine you?

In a society where everyone strives for growth, where everyone tries to build towards the heavens, there are some who wish to bring it plummeting down.

Terror is a thriller in which three people from different walks of life find a common enemy in the contemporary world. Yet, unlike most, they decide to do something about it.

Milton Haynes, a military man, is forced to see a psychiatrist following a fellow soldier’s death as he waits to appeal his dishonourable discharge. Ally Winston, one year after being viciously assaulted, struggles to slot into the life her father has laid out for her, while Nestor Frings returns to Boston to find his parents have sold their home due to financial issues.

The three initially voice their pains through non-violent means, however, they soon find their efforts futile. In a world where outsiders are considered dangerous and are not to be trusted, it will be the insiders who do the damage. Follow Milton, Ally and Nestor as they come to, what they perceive to be, the inevitable conclusion: they must commit a terror attack.

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I added this back on December 2017.

I can’t remember how I came across it but it sure sounds good.

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