Tag: horror

A haunting, atmospheric modern Gothic horror tale based on traditional Irish mythology, from the author of smash hit The Watchers.

Ancient evil is awakened on a lonely isle off the coast of Ireland.

TO LEARN THE TRUTH WOULD YOU DESCEND INTO HELL?

Off the west coast of Ireland lies a lonely island, isolated and wilfully forgotten. Some say there hasn’t been a child born on the island for thirty years. Others speak of strange deaths there, decades ago.
But no one really knows what happened. Locals believe that the dark times are behind them.
They are mistaken.

Grace, adopted at four years old, has never known where she came from. A mysterious phone call leads her back to the island where she was born – and where a terrible evil has been disturbed.

As the evil starts to spread, Grace finds herself dragged back into a living nightmare that threatens to engulf anyone who steps into its path.

Grace is perfect for fans of horror classics, Paul Tremblay, and Kealan Patrick Burke.

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A.M. Shine writes in the Gothic horror tradition. Born in Galway, Ireland, he received his Master’s Degree in History there before sharpening his quill and pursuing all things literary and macabre. He is a member of the Irish Writers Centre. His debut novel, The Watchers, has been made into a major motion picture produced by M. Night Shyamalan. Follow him on @AMShineWriter and
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My thoughts: This is a weird twisted and creepy book set on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. When Grace receives a call telling her that her biological mother has died and left Grace her estate, she closes up her bookshop and goes to the island, despite it being against her late mother’s wishes. She will wish she had taken the advice and let the solicitor sell the house.

The island is home to an ancient evil being that torments the remaining inhabitants. There are no children on the island, just a handful of older people who really should have left. They’re terrified and traumatised by events in the past and now the creature has reawakened and wants to finish what it started all those years before.

The youngish parish priest wants to help his remaining parishioners but he’s not really equipped to deal with monstrous demonic beings or ghosts, and by the time he learns the truth, it may well be too late.

Dark and full of the horrors of things hidden by the mist and darkness, this will put you off going to explore creepy islands with a tiny population. Which is probably a good thing!

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

Driving a logging truck through the Romanian mountains, smuggler Rosi and her crew come across a radio signal that hints at impending doom. As the world goes completely dark, their truck becomes a vessel sailing across a sea of nothingness. But they’re not alone: transmissions trickle in through the radio from similar isolated islands across the country, from amateur radio hobbyists and police cars and customs facilities.

Attempting to rescue survivors and find a way out, the group save more lives, but soon discover that something hungry lurks below, and it’s sending up agents – and transmissions – of its own.

Comparison Titles: Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess, The Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson, Void 1680 AM by Ken Lowery, The Vast of Night (2019 film directed by Andrew Patterson)

Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer of dark speculative fiction and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press. She’s the author of Whisperwood, as well as several short horror, fantasy, and science-fiction stories and non-fiction articles published in venues like Nightmare Magazine, Horror Library, the Nosleep podcast, and more.

She lives in the heart of the Transylvanian region of Romania, and lets her country’s culture and unique natural landscapes influence her work. She’s been a translator, a beermaid, a teacher, a copywriter, and a dog trainer, but ultimately realized she wouldn’t be happy until she terrified people for a living. alexwoodroe.com / X: @alexwoodroe / Instagram: @alexwoodroe

My thoughts: This gets quite sinister and dark, but is very clever and enjoyable. As the logging truck becomes a place of refuge against the strange plant like creature trying to make every human part of itself, Rosi becomes a hero in the valiant struggle to make it through the disintegrating world and darkness towards salvation. Her allies are unlikely, and not everyone will survive this strange journey, but if they can parse the messages in the radio transmissions and find the one that will lead them safely to a refuge that the creature can’t reach, perhaps the future has hope.

Rosi’s contraband goods aren’t all useful, no one needs jeans at the end of the world, but the food and booze help them get through the endless night, especially when things seem impossible. She will also realise some things about herself and find a strange happiness on board the truck they christen the Night Ship.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

A gory, supernatural campy horror set in a haunted English manor, The Haunting at Morsley Manor follows a troubled paranormal investigator uncovering terrifying secrets that blur the line between the living and the dead. Perfect for The Haunting of Hill House fans and The Woman in Black.

World-famous paranormal investigator Eric Thompson’s career took a nose-dive after a particularly gruesome case which left most of his camera crew dead. His partner and best friend also abandoned Eric, leaving him floundering.

He is soon approached by a mysterious woman who has purchased the supposedly haunted, but previously off-limits to paranormal sleuths, Morsley Manor. To drum up publicity about the house, she hires Eric to perform and host a paranormal investigation on the premises.

As he ventures over to England to uncover the darkness bleeding through the veins of Morsley, horrors begin to spring from every corner and Eric soon begins to realise that not all is as it seems…

My thoughts: Eric Thompson used to present a ghost hunting show with his best friend Mikey, but things went horribly wrong in Japan and Mikey vanished. Eric hasn’t been doing well since then.

Invited to visit the supposedly haunted by multiple ghosts Morsley Manor in Essex for a TV special, he reluctantly agrees.

But things aren’t as they seem, and something truly terrible begins, leaving Eric traumatised and unsure what to do next.

Creepy and full of nasty things, this is a great Halloween read.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.