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The Countdown to Halloween rolls on @sffworld.com with my review of MONSTERA by @delilahsdawson.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/10/sffw...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Up at @sffworld.com my NYCC 2026 panel recap of Embracing the Horror: Modern Masters featuring @stephengrahamjones.com @ericlarocca.com @nickmartell.bsky.social Alex T Singer, Kristopher Triana @sagapressbooks.bsky.social moderated by @raforall.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/10/nycc...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NYCC 2026: @mattdinniman.bsky.social Spotlight recap! @sffworld.com www.sffworld.com/2026/10/nycc...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here's my recap @sffworld.com of the awesome Ghostface Forever: 30th Anniversary of SCREAM panel @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/10/nycc...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#31HorrorBooksforHalloween THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD Countdown to Halloween review @sffworld.com www.sffworld.com/2026/10/sffw... by Tiffany D. Jackson ... highest recommendation

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NIGHT OF THE MANNEQUINS by @stephengrahamjones.com is today's COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN @sffworld.com - a potential, chilling take on the slasher story @tornightfire.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/10/sffw...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We kick off our annual Countdown to Halloween at @sffworld.com and I kick off my annual #31HorrorBooksforHalloween with @natcassidy.bsky.social outstanding collection, I KNOW A PLACE @shortwavebooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/10/sffw...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Up at @sffworld.com today, my review of Faith Hunter UNPREDICTABLE MAGIC, a fun urban fantasy/supernatural mystery. Set in Hunter’s popular #JANEYELLOWROCK world, it stands alone nicely and is a great intro to Hunter's writing: www.sffworld.com/2026/08/unpr... @acebookspub.bsky.social

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My #FridayReads/#FridayListens is THE TALISMAN by @stephenking.bsky.social and Peter Straub, right here and now! My 3rd or 4th flip to The Territories, and 1st via audio book. WOLF! A Mt Rushmore King novel for me, which is why the spine is painted on my stairs. Excited for OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE!

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Up today at @sffworld.com my review of @robertjbennett.bsky.social, A TRADE OF BLOOD. "I continue to be delighted, entertained, and enlightened by the Ana and Din novels...horror vibes are a most welcome flavor in this delicious stew of a novel." www.sffworld.com/2026/08/a-tr...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Up at @sffworld.com today, my review of A DROP OF CORRUPTION by @robertjbennett.bsky.social "Bennett gifts readers with a deeply engaging and immersive world and story. ...keeps the pages turning quickly is the banter and interaction between Ana and Din" www.sffworld.com/2026/08/a-dr...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Up today @sffworld.com is my review of @megbontra.bsky.social THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD "Bontrager certainly knows how to craft a horrific scene...there’s some bloody, gory scenes throughout the novel" @orbitbooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/07/the-...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Up at @sffworld.com my review of @cgolden.bsky.social new novel, CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE on this, the day of its publication! "I enjoyed everything about this novel – frenetic pace, the tension and sense of urgency, ...inventive take on Vampires as well as Witchcraft" www.sffworld.com/2026/07/carr...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Definition of a perfect summer afteroon: relaxing poolside with a delicious beer and damned entertaining book! Beer: TwentyRegularCash from Icarus - a "wheated" pilsner. The book: THE GATE OF THE FERAL GODS, the 4th #DungeonCrawlerCarl novel from @mattdinniman.bsky.social

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Summer/ #Summerween has just begun, so here's my review of THE SUMMER FUN MASSACRE by Craig Dilouie - a thrill ride of a slasher story w/ interesting perspective, hints of supernatural, and a twist on the trope. Another winner from DiLouie! @orbitbooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/06/thes...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND by @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social publishes today. This is a wonderful novel that casts Wendy as a survivor of Peter Pan's malicious, tortuous, gaslighting nature. A smart, enchanting, horror novel that hooked me. My review @sffworld.com www.sffworld.com/2026/06/it-c...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

BODIES OF WORK is a fascinating horror novel which shows @claymcleod.bsky.social's "ingenuity in the stories he tells and HOW he tells his stories, is truly something to behold." @titanbooks.bsky.social My review www.sffworld.com/2026/06/bodi...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Up at @sffworld.com today, my review of THE DORIANS by Nick Cutter out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social "fun, creepy, had some intriguing characters, and I just couldn’t put the damn thing down." www.sffworld.com/2026/05/the-...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Up @sffworld.com today, my review of @sarahgailey.bsky.social's absorbing, creepy MAKE ME BETTER. #booksky #horrorbooks www.sffworld.com/2026/05/make...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

ALL HAIL CHAOS, the 2nd book in @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social TIME OF IRON series published today, I reviewed the enthralling portal fantasy at @sffworld.com today, too! @orbitbooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/05/all-...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My #FridayReads is THE REDEMPTION OF MORGAN BRIGHT by @scribeofhades.bsky.social, acquired and signed at the wonderful #DarkInk event last year @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social. I blame @talkscaredpod.bsky.social, @natcassidy.bsky.social, and @margueriteturl2.bsky.social for making me read this!

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Throughout THE HIVE @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social (@titanbooks.bsky.social) "crafts a tense, growing sense of dread" with his characters and their unique obsessions. A dark, engaging epic horror that builds on character and a buzzing unease. My review @sffworld.com www.sffworld.com/2026/04/the-...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Up at @sffworld.com, my review of THE DEMON KING by Peter V. Brett, which concludes his "Nightfall" trilogy and caps off the whole Demon Cycle. I largely enjoyed it (big fan of this world) but it isn't without some complications for me. www.sffworld.com/2026/04/the-...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Here's my review at @sffworld.com of THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME by @ilonaandrews.bsky.social. This is an outstanding, smart, gripping, fun, portal fantasy anchored by a wonderful protagonist and fascinating worldbuilding. Sure to make my best of the year list. www.sffworld.com/2026/04/this...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Up on my blog today, I review the arresting, powerful, filthy, absorbing, enthralling BETWEEN TWO FIRES by @buehlmeister.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy/Grimdark but a novel that is laced with enough hope. This will sit with me for a while. @torbooks.bsky.social robbedford.blogspot.com/2026/04/book...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Up @sffworld.com today, my review of GREEN & DEADLY THINGS by Jenn Lyons. A standalone dark fantasy novel with some fun ingredients I mostly enjoyed, but a novel that felt like it could have been more www.sffworld.com/2026/03/gree...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today at @sffworld.com, my review of WRETCH, by @ericlarocca.com a novel that "made me feel, made me question things in ways that weren’t very comfortable. An unrelenting, devastating horror novel." Then there's Porcelain Khaw, a character who *must* be encountered. www.sffworld.com/2026/03/wret...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Up at @sffworld.com today, my review of @kierstenwhite.bsky.social's THE FOX AND THE DEVIL- which "ticks a box been high on my list of late – a story at the intersection of crime thriller and supernatural horror..." with an enthralling protagonist www.sffworld.com/2026/03/the-...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Taking the last ride with Jade Daniels, who will be my companion on my looooong flight tomorrow for a business trip. @sgj.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #horrorbooks #booksky

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Up @sffworld.com, my review of an extremely impressive fantasy debut, which blends history and horror, demons and forbidden love, playing off the original European werewolf myth/story - THE RED WINTER by Cameron Sullivan @torbooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/02/the-...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Up today @SFFWorld.com, my review of Heba Al-Wasity's immersive, outstanding debut novel WEAVINGSHAW "assured characterization to the blending of horror, fantasy, romance, and gothic elements shows a writer who has great skill and talent." www.sffworld.com/2026/02/weav...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

About halfway through this novel - WEAVINGSHAW by Heba Al-Wasity and I am loving it. Gothic fantasy, hints of horror, lovely writing. I think both @margueriteturl2.bsky.social and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social would totally be vibing with it @delreybooks.bsky.social #gothichorror #gothicfantasy

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Up today @sffworld.com, my review of Yah Yah Scholfield's powerful, horror debut, ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS. "Like the darkest of fairy tales, there’s an element of stark violence that characterizes who Jude is and the story itself." @sagapressbooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2026/01/on-s...

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Up today at my blog, I take a look at COLD AS HELL by Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle, the first in the Black Badge #weirdwestern series. I enjoyed the hell out of this! @blackstonepub.bsky.social robbedford.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...

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