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Exorcists’ House, The

An Amateur Exorcist Story Author: Nick Roberts Daniel Hill has an idea to make some extra cash – a fixer-upper farmhouse in the isolated hills of West Virginia. This will mean moving his family there for the summer to oversee the renovations and get the house ready for sale, but a change is as good as a rest, right? Nora, Nick’s pregnant wife, has more than one reason to go along with the plan. She has a secret – an indiscretion – that she wants to escape. If that means leaving her job and being cooped up in rural Virginia, well, [...]

Frances Carden2023-07-08T17:15:35-07:00July 8th, 2023|Tags: book review, exorcist, horror, read, reading|

Pallbearers Club, The

Scary Jackets and Creepy Dressers Author: Paul Tremblay Art Barbara (fake name to protect the not-so-innocent) was an awkward adolescent, encumbered with a back brace and a steadily curving spine. He is now sharing his spiral into addiction through an unlikely supernatural memoir. Art claims that his friendship with Mercy was more than just two quirky adolescents with a fixation on booze and the macabre. Mercy was, of course, feeding off his life-force, and now she has her vampiric hands on his manuscript, red lining his mistakes and showcasing Art for the unreliable narrator that he is. Is this a story [...]

Frances Carden2023-07-02T09:25:16-07:00July 2nd, 2023|Tags: book review, horror, read, readin, reading|

Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, The

A Quirky Read Worth the Hype Author: Grady Hendrix I’m not a Grady Hendrix fan, or at least I wasn’t, but my book clubs keep selecting his offerings. And I admit, I’ve been curious about this one for a while. So, I dove in. It begins with Patricia and her family. Her no-nonsense, all-business, absentee husband; her weird, Nazi fascinated child (Blue); and her declining and sometimes presciently creepy mother-in-law. Patricia is your everyday suburban mom: stressed, bored, trying to keep it together. Mildly affluent. Mildly happy. Mildly fake. This all changes one night when Patricia goes to take the trash [...]

Frances Carden2023-06-26T17:05:24-07:00June 26th, 2023|Tags: book review, dark comedy, horror, read, reading|