The Blurb On The Back: ”London’s exorcists!  I have a reward for all of you, a job for one of you.  Come to Brierley House, 20th April, 9.00am.” The newspaper ad is a baited hook and it smells like a three-day old corpse.  But hey, it’s a grand in hand for turning up so Felix Castor goes in anyway, alongside the curdled cream of his dubious profession.  And once he’s in it’s hard to get out again.  Brierley House is the home of Russian oligarch Gavril Ustinov, now missing, his driven daughter Ksenia Ustinov and their staff of taciturn, sinister domestics.  It also ..read more

The Blurb On The Back: Welcome to Dread Wood High.   It’s a scream … Angelo and his friends have already defeated some seriously creepy creatures. But there’s no time to chill as a terrifying new enemy appears in the skies … giant vampire birds that feast on BLOOD! Have Club Loser met their match with this fearsome flock of bloodsucking beasts?  It’s time for the ultimate battle to take flight … DREAD WOOD – FLOCK HORROR was released in the United Kingdom on 2nd March 2023.  Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book. You can order DREAD WOOD – FLO ..read more

The Blurb On The Back: Welcome to Dread Wood High.   It’s a scream … Flinch is a game of fear.  The more you scare your friends, the more points you get on the app.  But things are about to get WEIRD …  Angelo and his friends start to investigate who is behind the game.  Is it the people wearing the super-creepy clown masks?  With adrenaline pumping and the fair arriving in town, it’s time for the REAL games to begin! Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book. You can order DREAD WOOD – FEAR GROUND by Jennifer Killick from Amazon UK, Wat ..read more

The Blurb On The Back: THE NIGHT BEGAN WITH BLACKMAIL: Eight o’clock.  Portgrave Pier.  Can you keep a secret? Ten teenagers lured to a derelict carnival.  Each one with a dark past they are determined to keep hidden.  As they start to die, is it an unknown killer they need to fear … or each other? Mind games.  Murder.  Mayhem. HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SURVIVE THE NIGHT? You can buy GOOD GIRLS DIE FIRST by Kathryn Foxfield from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or Bookshop.org UK.  I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. The ..read more

The Blurb On The Back: Tonight is a special terrible night. A woman sits at her father’s bedside, watching the clock tick away the last hours of his life.  Her brothers and sisters – all broken, their bonds fragile – have been there for the past week, but now she is alone. And that’s when it always comes The clock ticks, the darkness beckons. If it comes at all. You can order The Language Of Dying by Sarah Pinborough from Amazon UK, or Waterstone’s.  I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. The Review (Cut For Spoilers): A woman lives in a house in Surrey with her ..read more

The Blurb On The Back: When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes.  After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad.  Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish.  That would be horrific enough, but there’s more – Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants … until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors – because ..read more

The Blurb On The Back: Some books should be banned or destroyed.  This is the story of one of them … In a coastal town, a strange, out-of-print children’s book is found, full of colourful stories of castles, knights and unicorns.  But the book is no fairytale.  Written by Austerly Fellows, a mysterious turn-of-the-century occultist, it is no mere entertainment.  In fact, those who start it find that they just can’t put it down, no matter how much they may want to.  You can order Dancing Jax by Robin Jarvis from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or Bookshop.org UK. &nbs ..read more

The Blurb On The Back: ”I used to think to make people feel afraid was a curse, an awful thing … But I’d love for them to fear me … I want them to look at me and weep.” On the even of their divining, the day Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are to discover their fate, they’re captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Vallarta. Far away from their beloved Traveller community, and forced to work in the harsh castle kitchens, Lil finds some comfort in the storm-eyed Mira, a fellow slave who she’s drawn to in ways she doesn’t understand.  But too soon she also learns about the Dragon, a mysteriou ..read more