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George Dunn

@georgesreads.bsky.social
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Horror reader Reviewer for fanfiaddict.com

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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Mercy House,” @adamcesare.bsky.social’s completely fucking disgusting, care-home-bound apocalypse is beyond taste and beyond great. Reissuing October 20th from @delreybooks.bsky.social and @blackcrowbooks.bsky.social! fanfiaddict.com/review-mercy...
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Review: Mercy House by Adam Cesare | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Harriet Laurel notices the odour the moment she steps inside Mercy House, brought to the retirement home against her will by her son and his wife. ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bloody and decadent, Jennifer Thorne’s “Newbourne Park,” is a cut-throat study of power, privilege and lycanthropy. A ruthless novel that will have you wondering what on earth really goes on inside those national trust properties. (Sept 29th- @titanbooks.bsky.social )
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Review: Newbourne Park by Jennifer Thorne | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: After years of caring for her dying mother, Martha Shaw feels empty, exhausted, and far older than her twenty-six years. So when her brother invit ...
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Anna Rose Reads @annarosereads.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A VERY LONG OVERDUE episode of Anna Rose Reads is now streaming with the one and only @georgesreads.bsky.social! We chat about all things going on in the book world, reading, reviewing, podcasting, and more. It’s a great time AND here’s the crazy thing!
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Episode 2 of the horror movie podcast with my mum is out today. We talk horror philosophy, liminality, uncanny valley, how strava revealed US military base co-ordinates, the allure of Gillian Anderson and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms- over a bottle of La Vieille Ferme. ⚠️ Spoilers from the start ⚠️
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2. Chicken Wine, The Allure of Gillian Anderson and Backrooms (2026)
Podcast Episode · Why Are You Making Me Watch This? · August 25 · 53m
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hey! That podcast, where I force my easily-terrified mum to watch horror films with me? Then we open a bottle of something and just gnatter about it? Launched it.
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A hot, sticky, sweat-drenched, subterranean pressure cooker- and that’s just the average trip to Waterloo- @jonnysims.bsky.social’s latest is a claustrophobic examination of trauma and memory, class, UK politics and chronic underfunding of public provisions.
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Review: The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Beneath the streets of London, it hungers… It's the hottest summer on record and the city is suffering. Prices are high, pay is low. And on o ...
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Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is the article about Mormons you didn't know you needed to read. Again, @darkertimes.bsky.social delivers great, thought-provoking reads
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Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Substance meets Dorian Gray in the age of Tilly Norwood, @almakatsu.bsky.social’s latest is a biting novel about the need to be liked, and how such a desire can curdle into something dangerous…lethal. @titanbooks.bsky.social
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Review: Incarnate by Alma Katsu | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Beauty doesn’t fade. It feeds. Dorothy Wagner has spent her whole life wanting nothing more than to be seen. But after failing to make her mark (a ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A dizzying, disorienting must-have for readers looking to emotionally decimate themselves, “Nightjars,” by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social is an utter triumph of high altitude horror. A vampire story that leaves its readers lightheaded also. @stmartinspress.bsky.social
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Review: Nightjars by Michael Wehunt | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: On a rainy night, Luke Oshel gets stood up halfway through dinner. But before his date walks off to the bathroom and never returns, she leaves an ...
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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We are gonna talk about problems or maybe BE the problems. Who knows?
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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
TBRcon 2026 Panel: Problems with the Final Girl! 7:00PM-8:30PM CST/5:00PM-6:30PM PST Moderator: Sadie Hartmann Panelists: Stephen Graham Jones, Tanya Pell, Mikayla Randolph, and Stephanie Rose www.youtube.com/live/R1_YYXR... @stephengrahamjones.com @tanyapell.bsky.social
a pulp noir woman with the words "Problems with the Final Girl"Grid with the panelists: Stephen graham jones, tanya pell, Mikayla Randolph, and Stephanie rose (and myself)
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’m launching a podcast where every week I will force my easily-terrified mother to watch a horror film with me, and then we’ll crack a bottle of wine, talk about the film and other horror news, and get ready to do it all over again.
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A bloody fairytale, a travelogue across familiar and distant lands, an unclassifiable blend of genres, an odyssey, and an epic revenge story, Blacktail by Scott Hawkins is a gory, misanthropic zinger. fanfiaddict.com/review-black...
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Review: Blacktail by Scott Hawkins | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Blacktail is a half-breed wolf, born to hunt. When he finds love beyond a garden wall, he dares to imagine a peaceful life – until men butcher his ...
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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Free and open to the public. Happening TODAY! WATCH: youtube.com/live/Ivml0Wu...
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TBRCon 2026 | Tradition vs. Innovation in Haunted Houses with Chris Panatier, Tamika Thompson & More
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Our body horror panel moderated by Nicole M. Wolverton and featuring Jess Hagemann, Hailey Piper, Neil Sharpson, Nick Cutter and Eric LaRocca is free to watch and livestreams HERE in just under an hour!! www.youtube.com/live/pYXZ1sK...
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TBRCon 2026 | Gory & Grotesque: How to Balance Body Horror
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
i bought a plant to prove i could care for something alive. it died. now i water the empty pot of shame.
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TBRCon @tbrcon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
One worldbuilding panel wasn't enough for #TBRCon2026. So we decided to do WORLDBUILDING IN HORROR! Join @angelaslatter.bsky.social @alexgrecian.bsky.social @caitlinstarling.com.bsky.social @hironnennes.bsky.social @jajminton.bsky.social @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social as they talk about worldbuilding!
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Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thank you to @georgesreads.bsky.social and FanFiAddict for this wonderful review! ❤️ THE MINIMALIST, my psychological horror novel of classical music, adoptee identity & artistic unraveling, releases August 18th. 🥚
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“A novel that walks the line between artistic brilliance and complete self-annihilation with bleeding feet, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social’s sophomore novel is as rich as it is devastating and elegant as it is grimace-worthy.” @stmartinspress.bsky.social
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Review: The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: As the last and greatest student of famed minimalist composer Ryder Wakefield, Mia Voss has long been assured a rise to prominence in the insular ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Recieved the upcoming @datlow.bsky.social anthology from @titanbooks.bsky.social today!! This ToC is glorious and it’s a STUNNING looking thing.
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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Today on the blogs there is a lot of Horror Goodness! First up, the links to my Horror Genre Preview and paired interview in @libraryjournal.bsky.social along with the other lists they have prepared. raforall.blogspot.com/2026/07/beck...
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Becky's 2026 LJ Horror Genre Preview is Now Live
Every July, I write the Horror Genre Preview for Library Journal. For this article (due the first week of May) I have to take a look at al...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
With the grisly, irreverent fun of a grown-up Goosebumps or perhaps Grady Hendrix anchored with a Pet Sematary-esque moral temptation, The House That Eats The Dead, by Max Doty is an absolute pageturner. I inhaled this novel in a manner its house would be proud of. @torbooksuk.bsky.social
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Review: The House That Eats The Dead by Max Doty | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: The new house is a fresh start for Claire and her family. It's a move away from the cityscape of a declining San Francisco and towards the qu ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Happy Hour,” by @manylittlewords.bsky.social is a bloody good time, a salt-rimmed, blood-splattered, pulpy cocktail of excess, comeuppance, liquid courage and lethal consequences that readers will down garnish and all in a single, breathless gulp. (OCT 20th @shortwavebooks.bsky.social )
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Review: Happy Hour by Gemma Amor | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: The eccentric owner of a '90s underground London cocktail bar has a unique and disturbing way of keeping an eye on everything and everyone, t ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A vicious collision of the extreme and the gothic “We Turn Gruesome At Night,” by @ericlarocca.com is poetic and vile in equal measure- a claustrophobic and uncomfortable novel that is over the moon, positively delighted to be just that. (SEPT 8TH @titanbooks.bsky.social)
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Review: We Turn Gruesome At Night (Burnt Sparrow #2) by Eric LaRocca | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003 and the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forwa ...
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Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Nothing says summertime horror like examining Sleepaway Camp (1983). Aigner Loren Wilson has crafted a very thorough community history to take the pulse of the cultural impact of this queer cult classic with "A Queer Community History of Sleepaway Camp (1983)": www.darkertimes.com/sleepaway-ca...
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A Queer Community History of Sleepaway Camp (1983)
An attempt to chart how Sleepaway Camp went from being a low budget hackjob with a “shocking nature” to a queer cult classic.
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Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Last week, we called upon horror connoisseur @georgesreads.bsky.social to share some of his wisdom regarding the state of the genre, particularly some of his favorite reads of 2026. Read George's stellar guest post, The Best Horror Novels of 2026 So Far: www.darkertimes.com/the-best-hor...
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The Best Horror Novels of 2026 So Far
In a very strong year for horror fiction, here are ten of the best books published so far.
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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Feeling so blessed today that @darkertimes.bsky.social has included #thecurseofhestergardens on its list of "The Best Horror Novels of 2026 So Far," alongside works by Paul Tremblay, Eric LaRocca, Kylie Lee Baker, and other masters of horror. List in comments. #HorrorSky #BookSky #tamikathompson
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Was a massive privilege to pull together a little listicle for everyone’s new favourite horror magazine @darkertimes.bsky.social I don’t mean to suggest that the volume of great 2026 horror is so vast that I am some sort of hero, but… www.darkertimes.com/the-best-hor...
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The Best Horror Novels of 2026 So Far
In a very strong year for horror fiction, here are ten of the best books published so far.
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Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
*checks watch* There have been 182 days in 2026. There are 182 days left in 2026. Now that we've officially passed the halfway mark, we have special guest @georgesreads.bsky.social giving you his Best Horror Novels of the Year So Far. www.darkertimes.com/the-best-hor...
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The Best Horror Novels of 2026 So Far
In a very strong year for horror fiction, here are ten of the best books published so far.
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A haunted house novel, full of familiar furniture: gnarled beams and scares in the attic, but also an astronomical amount of heart, “Worry Box,” by @scribeofhades.bsky.social delivers in spectacular fashion. [ @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social September 22nd]
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Review: Worry Box by Chris Panatier | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: The Martins need a new home for their growing family. For Alison, Nathan, daughter Dru, and foster child Lailah, it’s love at first sight when the ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A groovy, glittery supernova of a roadtrip novel that will wrap a feather boa around your neck and garrote you, @chucktingle.bsky.social’s latest, “Fabulous Bodies,” reeks of hairspray and is the very essence of rock n roll baby. (JULY 7TH @tornightfire.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social )
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Review: Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Poppy Stringer was born to be a star.An aspiring fashion influencer by day, Poppy moonlights as a grave robber to make ends meet, wheeling and dea ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It’s the critical consensus that @pfracassi.bsky.social can WRITE– bold, all caps. What his latest collection Traps and Specters has confirmed to me however, is that he can write pretty much anything. You get a whole lot of bang for your buck here. @shortwavebooks.bsky.social 9/22
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Review: Traps and Specters by Philip Fracassi | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: From the mind of Stoker and British Fantasy award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes fourteen stories of the macabre that will frighten, distu ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Headlights by @ceejthemoment.bsky.social will crawl under your skin and wear it. Tense, intelligent, gruesome, heart-breaking and ferocious in its pacing, it lays bare on the asphalt themes of fear, trauma, memory, relationships and grief under high beams. OUT TODAY @tornightfire.bsky.social
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Review: Headlights by CJ Leede | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn i ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Read my liminal horror recommendations via THE @phantasmagpress.bsky.social www.phantasmag.com/articles-3/b...
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'Backrooms' Reading List: 5 Must-Read Liminal Horror Novels — PHANTASMAG
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“This B Just Won’t Die,” has an important message at its heart, one that @tanyapell.bsky.social clearly had no qualms about splitting it down the middle and cracking open its ribcage to get to. A bloody good time for those who thought “Scream,” lacked sequins. (OCTOBER 13TH)
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Review: This B Just Won't Die by Tanya Pell | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Former scream queen Barbra Jacobs desperately wants to break out of the box Hollywood has neatly packaged her in. Cast as the star of the Mirror h ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’m a very serious journalist
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The new one by @keithrosson.bsky.social will hit you like a barbed-wire-wrapped brick. It’s a viscerally unpleasant, particularly wretched novel that makes the average noir look fluffy. Out September 22nd. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @blackcrowbooks.bsky.social fanfiaddict.com/review-crone...
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Review: Crone by Keith Rosson | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Eli Lamp is a broken man. An ex-detective, ex-addict, and long-grieving father whose daughter, Hannah, disappeared a decade before, Eli decimated ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I went to an awesome event at an indie bookshop today, followed by sitting on the panel of my dreams. I love it here.
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
“Kiss Slay Replay,” by @rachelharrison.bsky.social is a brain-frazzling, time-looping wedding slasher for fans of Chuck Tingle and Happy Death Day. Beyond masterful and thoroughly entertaining. (SEPTEMBER 8TH- @berkleypub.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social)
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Review: Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Will this nightmare ever end? It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend—the venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air, and Will ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A worth the wait novel, “Marla,” by @jonathanjanz.bsky.social is a twisty, turny story of real terror that didn’t just leave me guessing but was actively delighted to watch me get it wrong and wrong again. AUG 18TH- @blackstonepub.bsky.social
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Review: Marla by Jonathan Janz | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Every small town has ghosts. King's Branch has Marla. A reclusive young woman who lives with her mother in a creepy Gothic house, M ...
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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It's time for the first look… 💒🔪 We are thrilled to reveal that KISS SLAY REPLAY by Rachel Harrison will feature these stunning sprayed and stencilled edges! Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this time loop horror story. Coming September 2026 🩸 tinyurl.com/8hnyv2pe
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
A dark fairytale with peat under its fingernails, @amyjanestewart.bsky.social ‘s debut novel “Hex House,” is an unputdownable folk horror that finds terror within sanctuary. Warm and welcoming and wide-open doors until of course, it’s not… @titanbooks.bsky.social APR 28TH
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Review: Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: ELLYElly is running. Pregnant and still in her wedding dress, she flees the cottage that her new husband has rented for their wedding night. Becau ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“Brokeula,” by Michael Seidlinger is “a pacy, fang-forward piece of horror comedy that takes a generous bite out of late-stage capitalism and sinks its teeth into the circus of bullshittery that accompanies it.” JULY 7TH- @clashbooks.bsky.social fanfiaddict.com/review-broke...
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Review: Brokeula by Michael J Seidlinger | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: A broke vampire’s last ditch effort to escape the blood sucking monster of capitalism through an ill-conceived multi-level marketing scheme. James ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“The Other,” by @annieneugebauer.bsky.social is that one Spider-Man pointing meme meets Invasion of The Body Snatchers. A single-sitting, no-messing nightmare that is proficient in eliciting almost every subcategory of horror. @shortwavebooks.bsky.social - June 9th
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Review: The Other by Annie Neugebauer | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: A couple on an outdoor retreat meet their doppelgangers on a hiking trail and are soon tested on how well they truly know each other. Review: Well ...
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@ronaldmalfi.bsky.social ‘s“The Hive,” will make your ears ring and your molars ache and imprint strange symbols on the insides of your eyelids. Doors, chairs, dragons, metal spiders and conceptual gnomes. (@titanbooks.bsky.social APR 14TH)
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Review: The Hive by Ronald Malfi | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: The residents of Mariner’s Cove are changing… In the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people o ...
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 02/04/2026
Good point! I don't use AI because I'm not a fucking idiot.
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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This review of THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS by @georgesreads.bsky.social at @fanfiaddict.bsky.social has made my day. Dunn calls the book "A stunningly written, viscerally scary, and deeply emotive novel." Full review in comments! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
“Far removed from windswept moors or crumbling manors, @tamikathompson.bsky.social ‘s trad-pub debut brings the gothic to a public housing project in Michigan, in a chilling examination of gun violence and the supernatural in tandem.” @erewhonbooks.bsky.social
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Review: The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Nona McKinley raised three boys in the Hester Gardens section of Medford, Michigan, an impoverished community divided by those who follow their fa ...
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