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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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 Ratstrike

by Jools G. King

Genre: Horror

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.

My review is voluntarily given.

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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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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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 They Lurk

by Wesley Thomas

Genre: Horror

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

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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 Tracks

by Lyn I. Kelly

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Genre: Horror

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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