Fractured Tears: Book Review
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Fractured Tears: Book Review

It is as if Anna herself is sat across from you, recounting the horrors she went through. Poignant, heartbreaking, and genuine.

Just as a warning, this book contains prolonged and serious domestic assault, resulting in injury.

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Split Scream Vol 2: Book Review
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Split Scream Vol 2: Book Review

Unique in style and theme from Volume 1, the novelettes in Volume 2 did not disappoint. I can now safely say that Dread Stone Press knows how to put together delicious double features for horror fans everywhere.

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Tales from Between: Anthology Review
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Tales from Between: Anthology Review

Overall, I enjoyed this anthology and found the illustrated entries a refreshing addition to the prose. Again, this anthology didn’t have a theme but I enjoyed that because then you never knew what to expect — not in story topic or even subgenre.

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Barbarian: Movie Review
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Barbarian: Movie Review

While Barbarian was well-paced, atmospheric, and had some disturbing elements, ultimately there were many moments that shattered my suspension of disbelief and left me feeling a little dissatisfied.

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Blood Mountain: Collection Review
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Blood Mountain: Collection Review

This whole collection is thick with blood, despair, and the overpowering menace of the landscape, the mountain, and nature herself. I was hooked by the first page and yanked in, drowning deliciously in Brenda’s beautiful prose and brutal themes.

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Beulah - Novel Review
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Beulah - Novel Review

Character-driven and heavy with atmosphere, Beulah pulls the reader into a slow-burning ghost story as surreal as a dream, but rife with brutal moments of harsh reality. Gothic foreboding colours every page of this novel.

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