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5 Scary Stars "Coffee Love" by Ron Ripley: Anger, New Hampshire, a favorite fictional setting of author Ron Ripley, is a ST...

5 Weird Stars Reading THE FOREVER HOUSE was a "it blew me out of the water" experience: so yes, explosive, mind-blowing,  m...

5 Spooky Stars THE GOLEM OF PRAGUE is a 9-page short story with a ton of impact. Set in 14th Century Prague at the time of the Black P...

5 Stars  A creatively imagined Paranormal Romance that will tug the heartstrings, with good character evolution and a gifted interw...

5 Super Stars! So superb! THE HOUSE WITHOUT SUMMER is excellent historical Weird Fiction with resonances of H. P. Lovecraft, Ann Ra...

April and October are two of my favorite months, because of April "Spring Into Horror " and October "Frightfall"! Sig...

5+Stars! THE MOOR is an astonishingly exciting, engrossing,  heartwrenching, horror novel. What a creative premise has author Sam Ha...

March 21-22 Stay At Home and Read Reading: 9:30 AM Sat-9 PM = 11.5 Read: PAST MADE PRESENT by Bo Thunboe 36%-end Read: THE FOREVER HO...

5+ Spooky Stars  All three stories in this volume are by Ron Ripley.  "The Hanging Tree": What a special--an except...

3.5 Stars Picturesque,  almost anachronistic, Clerveaux, Luxembourg--tucked into a forest, nearby are an historic castle and abbey,...

5 Spooky Stars! SKELETON TOWER is an early-YA (adolescent)- aimed installment in Vanessa Acton's ATLAS OF CURSED PLACES. Well-deli...

5 Stars!! Deep and rich and fully fleshed out, THE MIDWIVES is Folk Horror genius! I loved SALVAGE and admired GHOSTLAND, but  THE M...

5 Stars  5 Stars I gave this spooky novel 5 Stars, despite the occasional grammatical/spelling/punctuation error, because I reall...

3.5 Spooky Stars  This is a 3.5 rating, the best I can muster. I tried valiantly "to really get into" this supernatural n...

5 Spooky Stars Nothing but chills throughout in this super-scary supernatural spooky! If the ongoing chills and thrills don't s...

4 Stars I quite enjoyed reading this novel, both for the recurring (and escalating Spooky aspects) and for the protagonist's unf...

4.5 Stars FALSE VALUE is Book 8 in the fantastic (in multiple categories) Urban Fantasy RIVERS OF LONDON Series by Ben Aaronovitch. I a...

5 Spooky Stars! Gore-laden horror  but rife with deeply detailed characterization and realistic character evolution,  THE ROOM UPST...

5+ Stars! I expected a great novel, as I adored Simone St. James ' BROKEN GIRLS; and THE SUN DOWN MOTEL delivered on that expecta...

5 Scary Stars! In exception to the first eleven volumes in this spooky series, SHORT HORROR STORIES VOLUME 12 contains only two stori...

5 + Stars!! I believe author Catherine Cavendish may have lived a past life or two in Victorian Great Britain: she possesses a rare an...