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Review: A Place of Vengeance by David Lafferty

Gypsy curses, gym class crushes and ghostly visions haunt the pages of A Place of Vengeance: Tales from Windward Cove by David Lafferty, a clever piece of supernatural teen drama.

An aspiring young psychic trying to find his way in life by getting in touch with the afterlife, Ben Wolf is the humbly cool protagonist of this wild tale, boasting the perfect blend of self-deprecation and untapped potential. High school is hard as a new kid in town, and while Ben’s noble nature and crew of summertime friends make things a bit easier, something paranormal is going on at Silver […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2024-02-18T15:42:58+02:00December 22nd, 2023|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Paranormal, Young Adult|

Review: The House on Tyner by Matthew O’Connell

Eerie, surprising, and profoundly emotional, The House on Tyner by Matthew O’Connell is a beautifully written ghost story with the structure of a mystery, plunging the reader into the snowy atmosphere of Nevada’s winters, and into the chilling outcomes of a murder case that challenges the reader’s sense of the rational.

Since losing his wife and children and quitting his baseball career, Jackson retrained as a chef and decided to pursue what once had been his wife’s dream – to leave Napa Valley and open a restaurant on Lake Tahoe. Looking for properties to rent nearby, Jackson stumbles across the […]

Marina Dora Martino2023-06-21T12:22:39+02:00April 6th, 2023|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Paranormal|

The Zalthagor Box by Terrie Schultz

The supernatural and the uncanny are at the heart of Terrie Schultz’s The Zalthagor Box, a fun and chilling middle-grade read that will appeal to adults as well as young readers.

Not yet 14, Evelyn discovers she has a rare power: she can see things before they happen. So far it has been more of a curse than a gift, as not only does her mother not believe her, but she’s bullied by everyone at school. When her great-aunt Lillian passes away unmarried and childless, Evelyn and her family travel down to Virginia to settle Lillian’s affairs. While learning […]

Marina Dora Martino2022-12-13T13:55:53+02:00December 12th, 2022|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Middle Grade Fiction, Paranormal|

Review: Birch: A Witch Tree by Jennifer Hotes

An introspective, supernatural narrative about coping with grief and loss, Jennifer Hotes’ Birch: A Witch Tree is the dramatic first title in a planned series about helping suspected witches achieve salvation after death.

Megan Ann Davenport is an up-and-coming painter living in Seattle, right on the brink of huge success and recognition for her prodigious talents. Not everything in her life is great, however: Megan left home at age seventeen to escape her conservative family, who don’t know that she’s a lesbian with a girlfriend named Charlie. When Megan’s preacher father unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, she’ll finally have […]

Michelle Hogmire2022-04-01T04:39:52+02:00March 9th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: LGBTQI, Paranormal|

Review: The Ferryman’s Toll (Hourglass Book 2) by Daniel James

Diving even deeper into an elite criminal echelon of New York City, as well as the dubious powers of a shadowy government agency tasked to deal with supernatural threats, The Ferryman’s Toll by Daniel James is a raucous and action-fueled sequel to Hourglass.

Rose Hadfield’s Intensive Scare Unit and the rest of the Hourglass gang once again come to blows with the Cairnwood Society and their devilish ambitions. The creepy cabal isn’t snatching souls from the realms of Erebus this time around, but they are creating a murderous battalion of super-powered assassins, which sets the stage for some epic […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-02-08T10:23:36+02:00February 7th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Daniel James, Paranormal, Science Fiction|

Review: Hourglass by Daniel James

A genre-busting thriller from author Daniel James, Hourglass is an occult masterwork of tension and grit, layered with shadowy government agencies, demonic villains, baggage-laden ghosts, and an unlikely pair of comic book heroes.

Clyde Williams is holding it together as best he can, despite struggling to finish his comic book, wrestling with the recent murder of his roommate Kev, and then navigating Kev’s ghostly return to the apartment from beyond the grave. However, when an Hourglass agent shows up at his door, inviting them both to join a nebulous government cell dealing with “post-life entities,” it’s clear that life is […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-01-20T07:14:31+02:00January 19th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Paranormal, Thriller|

Review: The Phantom Circuit by Austin Farmer

A reflective and frightening piece of dark fiction, The Phantom Circuit by Austin Farmer is a contemporary thriller carefully laced with classic horror themes.

Erica Westfield is dealing with the sudden loss of her international superstar sister, but a horrific slice of their past is also haunting this new grief, bringing up sinister memories of Bloody Mary, and a curse Erica thought she’d long ago left in the rear view. That twisted piece of personal history is breaking through the bounds of death, lurking on the other side of mirrors and computer screens, waiting to hack into her already troubled […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-01-14T05:07:03+02:00December 1st, 2021|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Horror, Paranormal|

Review: No. 7: The Date by Nandita Banerjee

Author Nandita Banerjee delivers yet another tangled knot of family drama with No. 7: The Date, the second installment of this eerie and thoughtfully crafted series.

Still reeling from her newly upended life, and the consequences of her husband’s sinister cabal activities, Priya must muddle through the aftermath of ghostly encounters, controlling relatives, natural disasters, unwanted advances, and even her son’s marriage proceedings in an endless quest to find peace. Armed with quiet perseverance, she must hold her family together on opposite sides of the world, all while juggling a dangerous and growing list of secrets – about her husband, […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-01-04T11:45:16+02:00November 17th, 2021|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Contemporary Fiction, Nandita Banerjee, Paranormal|