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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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 The Trailwalker

Ellie Jordan: Ghost Trapper #13

by J.L. Bryan

Genre: Horror / Paranormal

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MY REVIEW

I used to go camping all the time. Couldn’t wait to rough it and just escape from the rat race for awhile. And I can relate to being scared of what’s out there, lurking in the dark, just beyond the fire’s light. My friend and I were camping and telling scary stories one night. Just enough light from the fire to see each other’s faces. We heard a rustling in the bushes. Getting closer. Closer. And just when we thought about running, out popped her brother.  Remembering that terror. How strong it felt. It made me so excited to read this book.

The series has a different setting for each book and a campground is what we get in these pages. An old one close to some unusual mounds. When Josh and Allison, along with their kids, decide to fix up and reopen the place, they have no idea how dangerous it is. What they will be disturbing.

The author does a great job of scaring me without having bloody mayhem all the time. But this time there’s a high body county. I feared for this family. They were so hopeful and now so helpless. Ellie and Stacy were hired to come help them and I feared for them too.

I loved this book. Even the research Ellie and Stacy did to find out what might be happening at the campground was fascinating. Made it seem so real to me. And the back and forth between the two of them always makes me laugh. Yin to yang, those two. As long as the author keeps writing this series, I’ll be there, waiting for more.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

The old campground in the mountains has a shrouded history wrapped in legend. Located by the mysterious mounds of a vanished people, it was once a popular summer destination for children, but closed long ago under tragic circumstances.

Josh and Allison Conner have moved out from the city, inspired to create a retreat for children in need, a place to build skills and character. They’ve brought their own children with them, and now they’re hurrying to rebuild and update the old camp in time for their first opening day.

But something lurks in the wilderness around the old summer camp, something that strikes against the Conners’ best efforts to revitalize it. They feel watched, then threatened, but after sinking their savings and their hopes into the place, they are unwilling to walk away.

Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan must sort history from legend to determine what haunts the camp and how to fight it, before it inflicts more harm on the well-meaning family attempting to bring life back to the remote abandoned campground.

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 Bigfoot In The Bronx

by Hunter Shea

 

Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

I’m a huge fan of books with cryptids in them. Especially the big hairy guys like werewolves and sasquatch. And Hunter Shea is my go to author for horror stories about crazed beasts and animals running amok.

Shay and Vito. Best friends and avid hunters. It’s deer season and they planned to bag a big one. They sure did. Kind of cheated but they got something. A big hairy something.

The sasquatch is none to happy when it comes to in Shay’s shed. The noise and stench of the Bronx is no place for it. The creature just wants to go home.  Unfortunately, people and sasquatch don’t mix well and the confusion and fear drive the creature over the edge.

Shay and Vito are a few slices shy of a loaf. Not the brightest lads. I felt sorry for them though. They needed money to take care of their families and the big guy  would make them rich. Not to be though. Instead, they have to try everything to get the bloody creature out of the city without anyone being the wiser that they brought it there to begin with.

Hunter Shea delivers bloody mayhem in his classic style. You’ll cringe, almost fear what’s going to happen next, and actually feel kind of sorry for the creature causing all the death. I had such a blast reading this book.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

The Hunt

It’s hunting season for best friends Shay and Vito. This year, with a bad economy and Shay out of work, it’s more important than ever to bag a deer so they can feed their families. Tucking their truck in their secret spot outside a state park in the Catskills, they settle down, waiting for a deer to come to them.

Discovery

What they get is a giant creature that outruns a speeding deer and savages it with its bare hands and jagged teeth. Someone hidden in the woods shoots it with a tranquilizer dart. Shay knows what the beast at their feet is, and how its discovery can change their lives forever. They load it into their truck and head home for…

The Bronx

The drugged Bigfoot awakens in a cramped shed in Shay’s backyard. Confused, terrified, angry, it breaks loose in the middle of the night, seeking refuge in a nearby cemetery. When the bagpipes of a morning funeral drive it into a killing rage, the carnage has just begun.

Rampage

From playgrounds to golf courses, apartment buildings to subway cars, the bigfoot is on the move – and it’s not happy. Can Shay and Vito find and recapture the beast before it burns the Bronx to the ground?

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

 

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 I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls

by Ben Farthing

Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

Dolls, puppets, stuffed animals. Those creepy eyes give me the shivers. And that’s what makes me always want to read a scary book about them. And the title and cover for this one. How could I resist.

Johnny wakes up to a nightmare. A huge puppet looms over his bed. Then it disappears into the apartment wall. This isn’t a small puppet. It’s tall, covered in blue fluffy hair and scary. It’s Swoomie. A puppet from a favorite children’s show from Johnny’s past. His grandfather was it’s puppeteer. And now his grandpa is missing.

When Johnny tells his sister what happened they look around and find a hidden opening into the walls. It leads all through the apartment building. His sister insists they explore it. Egads! Why? Hasn’t she watched any horror films. That’s the last thing you  should do. And probably the last thing you will ever do.

I was seriously creeped out. While they ventured deeper into the labyrinth of the walls, I kept expecting the worst. Scary good stuff, folks.

 4 STARS

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Synopsis

Can you tell me how to get… out alive?

★★★★★ – ” I can’t remember the last time a book scared me and made me this nervous .” Andrew Van Wey, author of Head Like a Hole

Johnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed.

He recognizes the furry Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street . But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was converted from the old R-City Street studio.

Desperate to see Grandpa again, Johnny follows the puppet inside the building’s walls, ever deeper into a puppet-infested labyrinth…

I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls is a horror tale from the “darkly inventive” purveyor of uncanny places and wondrous evils, Ben Farthing.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 Midnight Movie

Ellie Jordan: Ghost Trapper #14

by J.L. Bryan

Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

The Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper series is one of my favorites. And so are the main characters Ellie and Stacey.

For Midnight Movie you have Ellie and Stacey called to help a young family who are being haunted. They just bought an old drive-in movie theater and had high hopes of making it a success. Alas, the ghosts of the past aren’t having none of it and things get dangerous.

I used to love going to the drive-in. Back in the day they had these boxy metal speakers you hung on your vehicle’s windows. There were swing sets to play on between movies. And the junk food. Yummy!

There’s nothing family friendly going on at this drive-in. I felt really bad for the family. It’s hard enough to sink your money into something that’s sat empty for a long time. And you can’t exactly start advertising the grand opening when there’s dangerous ghosts roaming around. I had faith that Ellie and Stacey would get to the bottom of it.

It was nice to be able to check in with some of the other characters that are featured throughout the series. Been wondering how they were doing. Anyone who has been involved with Ellie’s cases has been through some ordeals and some of those are lasting ones.

This was quite the complicated case for the ghost trapping team. I really enjoyed learning the reason behind the hauntings. Another killer read in a series I’ve come to love very much.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

Long ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a distant memory.

A young family brings the forgotten theater to life with a new, modern vision for its future, but strange troubles plague them. Something from the past haunts the theater and won’t leave them, or their occasional customers, alone. The family is living in the old theater manager’s apartment located inside the drive-in’s screen tower, so they enjoy no peace even when they go home after work late at night.

With disturbing supernatural activity threatening their small business and their family, they turn to paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan for help—but the mythic world of the movies has its own dark magic, and Ellie may not be prepared to face what awaits her when the sun goes down, the lights go out, and the show begins.

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The most sinister objects of fear are never truly discarded…just repurposed.

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White Trash & Recycled Nightmares

by Rebecca Rowland

Genre: Horror Short Stories

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A workaholic splits his time between home and hotel rooms until an anonymous cryptic message arrives, setting off a wrinkle in the time continuum and slowly shredding his sanity. Elsewhere, a woman’s jealousy over her spouse’s connection with their only child boils over, leading her to see monsters everywhere except the mirror. University fraternity brothers discover that a cruel prank has dire consequences but the full extent of their punishment is yet to come, while an intrepid hiker explores an abandoned Cold War facility hidden within a Massachusetts mountain only to realize that military secrets aren’t the only things buried within.

From witches, wendigos, and werecats to sirens, sadists, and serial killers, Rebecca Rowland serves readers a twenty-tale meal of cosmic, creature, and quiet horror in platters heaping with unsettling trepidation. In Rowland’s long-awaited follow-up to The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, a lighted room provides no safe haven, and in the darkest corner of the basement waits a ravenous dread.

The most sinister objects of fear are never truly discarded…just repurposed.

Includes a foreword by Mary SanGiovanni.

Advance praise for White Trash & Recycled Nightmares

“Rowland’s confident and poetic prose slices its way under your skin and lifts the veil on visceral, disturbing, and shocking terrors residing just beneath the norm.” -Tim Lebbon, bestselling author of The Last Storm

“There’s nobody out there like Rebecca Rowland. These stories are razor-sharp, clever, and horrifying in all the best ways. Read everything she’s written, starting with this collection.” -Gwendolyn Kiste, Three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals

“A powerfully evocative collection—packed with beautiful writing and deeply unsettling stories.” -Brian Keene

Rebecca Rowland is a dangerous lady. She is cynical, lascivious, ironic, blood-thirsty, ice-cold, but also warmly feminist (unless the gals aren’t worth it), a guy-lover (until the boys get a little too much toxic masculinity), and at any moment, she’s ready to throw old snow beasts, walls of giant bugs, and…well, what’s your nightmare? She will hand it to you freshly minted and explode your mind. You’ve been warned. Now read this book.”-Felice Picano

These are some nasty stories with brutal, heartbreaking endings and shocking revelations. Rowland’s characters feel like real people, so much so that you won’t necessarily want those stories to end.” -Paula D. Ashe, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

“Sometimes shocking, sometimes mean, but always darkly entertaining, Rowland’s WHITE TRASH & RECYCLED NIGHTMARES makes the dread tangible in each story.” -Kevin Kangas, director of Fear of Clowns

“Rebecca Rowland comes with all guns blazing. WHITE TRASH & RECYCLED NIGHTMARES is a top-tier collection of stories that fans of horror fiction will devour. The writing and characters are strong, and the concepts are both sinister and memorable.

Make some space on your shelf for this one.” -Rio Youers

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Excerpt from “Layover,” the first story in White Trash & Recycled Nightmares by Rebecca Rowland

 

When his cell phone’s piercing ring jarred him from deep sleep that evening, Adam was at first disoriented. He squinted at the digital clock nearby, then pawed in the direction of the sound in a scramble to mute it. He kept his ringer off nearly constantly, switching to audible alerts only when sleeping away during a layover as a countermeasure to assuage his anxiety at the hotel’s wake up service. After silencing the sound, he glanced over at Diane, a barely visible shape motionless two feet away.

The screen on his phone read Unknown Caller. He tapped the green button, pressed the receiver to his ear, and whispered, “Hello?”

There was silence on the other end, and Adam assumed the party had hung up, a misdial realized too late to unring the nocturnal disturbance. He was beginning to pull the phone from his ear when he heard it: a quick breath, like a gasp of surprise, and then another sound. A piercing wail screamed from the earpiece: a long, unending shriek of terror, primal and desperate. It stabbed Adam’s eardrum like a sharp blade twisting into his brain. Startled, Adam dropped the phone, and the cell bounced off the mattress, against the edge of the nightstand, and onto the hardwood floor.  Shaken and still disorientated, Adam jumped out of bed, snatched the phone from the ground, ran to the bathroom, and flicked the light switch. The stark white radiance was as jarring as the scream had been. Adam looked at the screen again. The caller had hung up. In its place was his regular wallpaper, the photo of him and Diane with Janie between them, the three sitting on a bench overlooking Wells Beach, watching the tide come in.

But the eerie scream still echoed in his ear.

Adam rubbed the stubble on his face and looked at himself in the mirror. His face seemed hollower than usual. Dark circles punctuated his bloodshot eyes. He was due back to work in six hours and he’d only slept for three. He placed the phone on the sink and opened the medicine cabinet, rustling through the arsenal of face creams and pain relievers the couple hoarded, finally discovering an expired but nearly full bottle of Xanax. He shook two tablets into his palm and then onto his tongue, dry swallowing them even though the crystal holder nearby overflowed with disposable cups. He’d be groggy in the morning, but at least he’d get some sleep.

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The next evening, Adam lay stretched out on top of the scratchy blue quilt of the hotel room, a pile of obstinate pillows lodged between him and the headboard and a battalion of tiny vodka bottles he’d smuggled from the plane standing guard at the room service menu on the nearby desk. He’d hovered at the bar near the lobby for over an hour with no prospects for evening company and finally resigned himself to a few hours of bad television alone. He thought about calling Marie, but he was in Los Angeles, and what would be the point? To talk? Were they high school sweethearts? He picked up his cell three times but stopped himself before dialing, imagining her laughter tinkling through the receiver. Oh, Adam, you’re so funny. But why don’t you call when you’re in San Diego, yeah? The honeyed voice drizzled over the barely audible push to get him off the line so that she could get ready for a date, for a night out with the girls, for a quick tumble with another traveler waiting for her in bed in the next room.

Adam selected a bottle from the congregation and twisted its tiny cap. He didn’t bother to pour the liquid into a glass but drank right from its tiny top, feeling a bit like he always did at one of Janie’s tea parties, the cups and plates three sizes too small for his hands. He realized he’d forgotten to eat dinner and leafed through the menu but found nothing appetizing and instead, used the nearby remote to turn on the television. Immediately, the screen buzzed to life, an available channel lineup with current show listings cascading downward.

His phone vibrated beside him. This time, it wasn’t a call but a text alert from a number he did not recognize. He tapped the screen to open the message. It contained no words, only a photograph. Adam dropped the empty bottle onto the carpet beside the bed and spread his fingers on the screen to magnify what he was seeing.

At first, Adam thought it must be a crime scene photo, one of those fuzzy reproductions that forensic documentaries flashed across the screen for shock value, the victims’ faces, and sometimes, exposed genitals, strategically blurred to appease the ratings police. But the photograph wasn’t grainy. It wasn’t a screenshot of a web image or a captured shot from the television. It showed no sign of pixelation. It had been taken first-hand, and nothing on the subject had been censored.

The boy looked about seventeen, perhaps eighteen, years old. He was tall and thin in that late-adolescence awkward sort of way; even as his body lay lifeless on its side, the boy’s shoulders curved forward as if still self-conscious about his height. His lips were slightly parted in a small o, and a maroonish stain had dried into a crusty blotch along the patches of hormonal acne dotting one side of his face. His hair was deep brown and slightly disshelved, like someone had recently tousled it or removed a baseball cap too quickly, and his eyes…Adam looked closer. His eyes were entirely black, the pupils having swallowed the irises whole.

The boy was wearing a bright red t-shirt, and as Adam let his fingers move the screen downward, he realized, that was all he was wearing. That is, the boy, or what remained of him, ended at the torso. His legs appeared to be missing, or crushed beyond recognition, the area below his waist dissolving into a charred tangle of metallic debris and meaty pulp.

Adam turned the phone onto the quilt, face-down. He felt his stomach buckle and a sheen of sweat bead along his face. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then opened them and began unscrewing another of the vodka nips; he was bringing the bottle to his lips as he picked up the cell again and dialed Marie’s number.

Hey there, her voice purred after one ring. It’s Marie. You know what to do. A beep.

He clicked the red End Call button, then dialed another number. This time, a live person picked up and greeted him.

“I was just thinking of you,” Diane said sleepily. “How’s your day? What is it, nine o’clock there?”

Adam swallowed, felt the alcohol burn a path down his esophagus and into his stomach. “Yeah, about that,” he said finally. “Is everything okay? Are you and Janie okay?” he asked nervously.

“Wha—?” Diane’s concern reverberated through the receiver. “Yes, we’re fine, everyone’s fine. What’s the matter?”

Adam paused, collected himself. “Yes, yes, everything is good. I just wanted to hear your voice, Dee,” he said. “How is Janie? Did the weather cooperate for practice?”

Diane breathed a small sigh. “Oh, yeah. Rain held off the whole time. She is loving it so far. Exhausted, though. Out like a light right after dinner.” She was quiet for a beat. “Have you been drinking? You’re slurring your words a bit.”

Adam’s eyes drifted to the room service menu beside his hip. “Just a little. I forgot to eat supper. I’m ordering something now, I promise.” He picked up the booklet and opened it once more. He’d force himself to eat something, anything, just as soon as he got off the phone. He silently scolded himself for drinking too much on an empty stomach.

“Okay, well, I was just about to get into bed,” Diane said, her voice still concerned. “Are you sure you’re okay, Addy?”

Adam pressed his fingers into his eyebrows and kneaded slightly. “I’m good. I’ll be home on Tuesday. Long day is all.”

They exchanged goodnights and Adam held the phone in his hand for a moment after hanging up. He took a deep breath and opened his text messages, scrolling up and down the list of senders again and again.

The message containing the photograph of the mangled boy was gone.

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Rebecca Rowland is the dark fiction author of two fiction collections, one novel, a handful of novellas, and too many short stories. She is also the editor of seven horror anthologies, and her speculative fiction, critical essays, and book reviews regularly appear in a variety of online and print venues. A New England native, Rebecca has lived all over Massachusetts and as a result, chooses to torture most of her characters there.

Follow her on Instagram @Rebecca_Rowland_books. For more information about her books and other writing projects, please visit RowlandBooks.com.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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 Ratstrike

by Jools G. King

 

Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

It’s the near future and rats have become the top of the food chain. Guess where that leaves us. In a day to day fight to survive. There’s some electricity and the only safe time to venture out to forage is during the day.

This story felt somewhat believable. Maybe not with the size of the rats, but definitely with their dominion over us. I’ve always believed rats and cockroaches would be here long after us.

I expected some bloody mayhem. Whew, some scenes had me cringing. The rats are so vicious and relentless. And the author gave me a little something else to keep me entertained. There’s more to these rat strikes than meets the eye!

A solid creature feature that kept me focused from beginning to end.

4 STARS

Thanks so much to Author Jools G. King for a complimentary copy.

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Synopsis

AS THE VERMIN GET BIGGER, THE HUMAN RACE GETS SMALLER

Over a decade from now, mutant killer rats rise up to terrorise the English population. Life is short and hard; death quick and violent. The towns and cities are no-go death zones; survivors retreat to the rural areas. The only hope – fight back against a deadly species of fast evolving vermin.

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 They Lurk

by Wesley Thomas

 

Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

Jack loves horror movies. Reminds me of me when I was a teenager. Well, that’s me now too. I love the stuff. Books and movies. So, I was really curious about this book.  What could be killing people? And what’s with draining the victims of their Vitamin D? That’s different. Turns out Jack and his older brother, Dan, should have thought twice about trying to solve the mystery. There’s more than a serial killer stalking the streets. There be monsters too.

At times the story felt a bit slow for me. I guess I’m used to horror where it starts out with a bang and revs up til the end. Once things did start happening, I was glad to know what I knew about the brothers and their family dynamics. Their gradual bonding through the shared horrors really had me pulling for them. And I liked the surprise ending. I couldn’t imagine how the author would wrap it up, but it worked for me.

4 STARS

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Synopsis

A small town falls prey to monsters, ghouls, conspiracy, and one very hungry serial killer, with only two young men to protect it. When a horror movie-obsessed teenager discovers that people in his hometown have dropped dead, drained of vitamin D, puzzling and terrifying the authorities, Jack realizes this is no fantasy. With the reluctant help of his older brother, they dive into unimaginable horror that he thought was safely confined to the world of film and literature. If that wasn’t bad enough, an uncaptured native serial killer decides to revisit his old hunting grounds.
His days of classrooms and cafeteria food are over.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 A Dark Breed

Monsters & Mayhem

by Patrick McNulty

 

Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

I’d just finished a book with some similar elements in it and loved it so I went looking through my books for something along the same lines and found this one.

Nick just wanted to take his family on a much needed vacation to unwind and regroup. He didn’t plan on the blizzard and running off the road.  Now they must survive the worst the Colorado mountains can deliver. And it’s not just a snow storm. They found safe haven in a small cabin. Little did they know it was the worst place they could be. And when they thought they were saving a strangers life, they were actually endangering their own. Now, the cabin is surrounded by unspeakable monsters and they have nowhere to run.

I love it when the elements, the worst that Mother Nature can throw at you, are a vital part of survival. Not just the monsters lurking outside. And the monsters Patrick created are horrible. Imaging coming face to face with such evil and knowing you have only yourself to rely on made this such an intense read for me.  It’s the first in the Monsters & Mayhem Collection and I loved it. You can bet I’ll be reading the next and the next……

5 STARS

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Synopsis

Nick Jacksons family is teetering on the edge of emotional and financial ruin. With the threat of uprooting his entire family for greener pastures Nick needs a win, but he’ll settle for a vacation. Even if it means driving through a horrific blizzard to an all expenses paid cabin in the Colorado mountains. Out of cell phone range and out of options, Nick and his family creep along through the storm until one wrong turn sends their ancient Dodge Caravan off the edge of the road and down a mountain slope better suited for skiing. Battered and bruised, but still alive, Nick leads his family to shelter in an abandoned cabin only to find a pregnant woman being held prisoner in a nearby outbuilding. Soon after he releases the woman he realizes his mistake and that no good deed goes unpunished… A Dark Breed is the terrifying first book in the Monsters & Mayhem Collection . If you like reading about families, friends and lovers forced to survive supernaturally horrific events then you’ll love Patrick McNulty’s frightening tales.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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by Lyn I. Kelly

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Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

Werewolves. Bipedal. Long fangs. Tall pointy ears. Sharp claws. And the very unnatural way they look and move. All very horrific. One of my favorite cryptids.

Imagine one of these creatures stalking you. Waiting for the right time and place. And then……. there’s no place to hide. That’s what happens to Travis and his best friend. They’re just doing what teenagers do. Out exploring a trainyard. Then they see something. Something unnatural. And it sees them.

The killings begin. One body after another. Bloody, mangled corpses. What’s strange is there seems to be a purpose to the killings. Soon you learn this isn’t the first time the beast has visited McGregor Falls. It’s back to settle the score.

This story moves quickly, the plot is unique, and the characters, even the minor ones, are genuine. But don’t get too attached. The werewolves are cunning. They like a game of cat and mouse before they move in to rip you to shreds.

I can’t remember how I came across this book. Maybe it was the cover. Eerie and foreboding. Whatever made me stop and take a closer look, I’m glad. This was a howling good read.

4 STARS

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Synopsis

“It ain’t nothin’ like you’ve ever seen before, Sheriff.”

That was when Sheriff Cotton Briggs found the body, slaughtered beyond recognition inside a random boxcar. The trains have always moved through McGregor Falls, Texas, but now they have brought something into town, something Briggs had hoped was forever in the past.

Fifteen-year-old Travis Braniff while exploring an old trainyard with a friend, encounters that same something. Both boys escape the creature’s murderous intent, but now it is after them and will stop at nothing to prevent its secret from being revealed…too soon.

In Lyn I. Kelly’s newest novel, the werewolf mythology is explored and rewritten, as vengeance is rendered onto a small Texas town and secrets are revealed. Skinwalker. Lycanthrope. Werewolf. Whatever the name, whatever the legend, an old evil has found its way into McGregor Falls, and no one is safe.

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Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2023! I missed doing this the last couple of years due to Covid and so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

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Free Computer Seeks photo and picture

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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 The Horror At Pleasant Brook

by Kevin Lucia

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Genre: Horror / Supernatural / Halloween

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MY REVIEW

 What did I just read?! I love horror stories with small, remote towns. Makes getting help darn near impossible. And that usually means everyone knows everyone. But, you will find it hard to get to know this towns residents. You meet them. They die. Gruesomely. Horribly. In the synopsis it’s mentioned “until nothing else remains”. The victim’s remains are all that remain.

It’s Halloween and Covid lockdown in Pleasant Brook. The only things stirring are the monsters. So many of them. And they want you to come out and play. Or, perhaps they’ll come in. I’d just recently watched Phantoms, the movie based off the book by Dean Koontz, and felt some of those same terrifying feelings while reading this book.

I love my horror year round but I’m always looking for a good scare for the Halloween season. Kevin Lucia got me good.

5 STARS

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Synopsis

This Halloween, a malevolent, creeping horror invades a small, isolated town nestled deep in the Adirondacks. It cares nothing for this town’s secrets, prejudices, or flaws. Its only desires are to consume everything in its path and spread, until nothing else remains.

It is ancient, pitiless, and unstoppable. It is the horror at Pleasant Brook.

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