Review: Queensboro by Thomas Drago
★★★★½ 
Content warning for child abduction and abuse of a sexual nature, as well as the use of racist and offensive language.
When model fourth grade student Ashley Smith breaks her zero-absence record at Crow Creek Elementary, everyone is immediately on edge. When Sheriff Brad Gleason calls a search, something far worse than anyone could have imagined is found, and once more the town of Crow Creek must handle loss at the hands of the simply unexplainable.
Meanwhile, an ex-employee of Carolina EnTech turns up worse than dead in a local diner, spurring the only witness curious enough to drive […]
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Shades: The Gehenna Dilemma is the extraordinarily original and inventive science fiction/dystopian novel of a bleak future where the IRS bring back debtors from the dead as “Shades,” turning them into servants of the state. As the old saying goes, “The only thing certain in life are death and taxes.” Shades takes this literally and combines the two ideas.
Exit, by Julian Boote, is a terrifying read that will keep you up well after your bedtime. And you might want to leave the lights on.
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The Haunted Trail is the debut horror title by John C Lukegord, telling the tale of a streak of (fictional, or is it?) murders occurring in 1892 along an eponymous “haunted trail” in the backwoods of Dublin, perpetrated by the “crazy” and “inbred” mental patients et al that lurked within. The book covers several of these incidents, along with the actions of the community, a handful of ghosts, and an unfortunate clown. Together, the mystery of the haunted trail begins to unwind, but at what cost?
This book contains brief scenes of rape and physical abuse.
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