John Kern is a Marine reservist serving a tour in Iraq when he is struck by a car bomb. It is then that things start changing for him, and it starts with hallucinations. These hallucinations involve spirits, gods long since forgotten, and the ghost of a man he had beaten to death when he was still a professional boxer. Things get progressively worse while he is recovering in Germany, as “Battlin’ John” becomes unwittingly entangled in a cult’s plot to resurrect a medieval torturer. Read More »
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BBB: What do you find are the most rewarding and most challenging aspects of writing?
CF: Challenging? At this point , just the discipline of it. There are a million ways to fall short of your material, your story, or your inspiration. It takes effort and time to overcome all those little pitfalls. And unfortunately, practice only seems to make the shortcuts more tempting, rather than less.
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Hi Tate!
Welcome back to Bitten by Books. It is always a pleasure to have you with us. 
BBB: Rumor has it that this is the last book in the Garnet Lacey series. Is this true?
TH: It’s more than a rumor, after Honeymoon of the Dead the series is, in point of fact, dead.
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Every married couple looks for the perfect home to live their lives in. Some choose the country, some prefer the city; some look for apartments, others want a sprawling house. Seldom do people choose to purchase a house that is haunted, cursed, or otherwise infested with the unknown entities of the past. Well, Robert and Anna Ford have found the perfect home in the mountains in Violet Cove, Oregon; little do they know what an interesting past their new home has and the effect it will have on their lives.
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Freak
by Ron Sanders has an interesting premise, but it is definitely a “guy” story, especially evidenced by a paragraph in the last chapter (I will not quote it here as I do not want to give anything away). This slim volume is a relatively fast read, but the pacing would have been even quicker if the author showed us the story rather than told us the story.
Weirdly: A Collection of Strange Tales
is an anthology published by Wild Child Publishing. It features tales of horror, revenge, and twisted worlds from eleven authors. Overall, the collection receives 4 tombstones. Reviewing anthologies is always a challenge, so I’ll hit on the highs and lows of each author. Read More »
Rachael is a student in the future. She has discovered what many people before her have: that the past holds an intrigue. She yearns to learn more about what has gone before. While on an expedition with her friends and fellow students, they venture on a planned trip outside the protective dome of their community. Read More »
Feed by Mira Grant is not your average zombie novel. Sure, there is plenty of flesh-munching, ambling zombie goodness (including zombie deer — seriously!!), but there is much more to the story than that.
To understand this book, you have to evaluate the many layers comprising Feed. First is the most obvious—a mixture of a cure for the common cold and a cure for cancer morphed into the Kellis-Amberlee virus, causing the outbreak of infected and reanimating the recently-deceased. The amount of research that went into the explanation of this disease is astounding, and I will not belittle Mira’s efforts by trying to explain it here.
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“Fear and Desire” was a short, powerful little novella that had me glued to the pages and had me feeling the anxiety, fear and frustrations right along with Cassie, the heroine.
Cassie knows fear. She faces it on a daily basis in hopes that she can learn to really live. Choosing to live on the top floor of a hi-rise, having to take an elevator just to get home, were all choices that Cassie made to take control of her life. At least that is what she is telling herself. Even though she knows her attempts to squelch her uncontrollable fear of heights isn’t working, she still goes through the motions each and every day hoping things will change Read More »
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San Antonio, Texas is under quarantine after an outbreak of a deadly virus. Containment walls surround the city and the military uses deadly force to contain the virus and the citizens of San Antonio.
Detective Lily Harris is working inside the walls compiling burial statistics. When she discovers the body of a murdered woman among plague victims, she begins to investigate the identity of the woman and that of her killer.
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Echoes Of Terror
is a horror anthology consisting of sixteen stories filled with ghosts, monsters, demons and werewolves. With most collections, you will find a mix of good stories, bad stories and a few great stories. This is no exception.
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Hail is falling as Tara drives to her old home near Ottawa, Canada. Responding to a call from her twin sister, Evey, Tara was driving home for her father’s funeral. Tara has unwelcome company on the long drive as the ghost of her father keeps popping in and out to gnaw away at her confidence and maybe even her sanity. She shouldn’t have been surprised to see him because his ghostly vintage been popping in and out of her life for months. Read More »
The Evolve anthology is a compilation of stories, poems and glimpses into the vampire genre as told by some of Canada’s most popular authors as well as blending in some first in print novelists as well. The forward by editor Nancy Kilpatrick is a well thought out and versed overview of the vampire genre from its first publications to film and television.When this excellent first installment in the Emma Andrews series begins, twenty-three-year-old widow Emma arrives at the country home of her cousin, Mary, her husband, Roger, and their young daughter, Henrietta. Also in residence is Emma’s younger sister, Alyssa, with whom she has an awkward and tense relationship. Read More »
This is a wonderful assortment of chilling tales culled from the minds of a fabulous array of authors. The reader takes a journey, twenty-five in fact, into a world of shadows and fear.
Dead Souls explores the depths of human nature and the terror of these souls lost to shadows and of the creatures lying in wait for them.
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Tempt Me with Darkness
, the first book in Shayla Black’s Doomsday Brethren series is going to capture you from the start and will have you addicted to these scrumptiously strong men and their equally brave and beautiful women from the get go. Get comfy, turn the phone off and have the snacks and beverages handy because you are not going to want to come up for air once you get started on this sinfully sexy book
Gaslight Grotesque
is a fantastic collection of macabre stories that follow the infamous Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson. Thirteen writers take up where the legendary Sir Arthur Conan Doyle left off with tales that deliver both new mysteries for the pair to unravel and the retelling of classics with their own horrific versions of what really happened. Read More »
The world is a place full of gods and those who believe in them, but B
ance is needed to keep it all in order. Isiah is a centuries-old former human who works to maintain and restore the balance and in this world; Balance is an entity, not just a state of mind.
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This thirteenth edition of the Tesseracts anthologies showcases a variety of Canadian writers from across the country. It delves into various genres including horror, dark fantasy, paranormal, suspense, and the macabre. The anthology divides itself into the sub-categories of Youth, Mythology, and Relationships, as well as a preface from both editors and an extensive review of the last two centuries of Canadian dark fantasy and horror fiction by Robert Knowlton.
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