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The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

By RoughJustice

2 August, 2022

Texan author Gabino Iglesias’ two previous novels, Coyote Songs and Zero Saints, earned him an enviable reputation for being able to blend genres. Writers who can pull this off successfully – like Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron and Cynthia Pelayo – manage to meet readers’ expectations…

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Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand

By crimefictionlover

19 July, 2022

Maine-based author Elizabeth Hand writes widely across the crime fiction and dark fantasy genres. With her crime novels we’ve grown used to cold climate settings, and the Cass Neary series has taken readers from New England to Iceland, across the UK and over to Sweden….

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Hide by Kiersten White

By RoughJustice

7 June, 2022

Out in the middle of the desert exists an abandoned amusement park with a terrible hidden history. Fourteen young adults, desperate for fame or money, have signed up to try and win a $50,000 contest. If they spend a week in the park without getting…

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The Doctor will see you now... Johann Thorsson

By crimefictionlover

22 March, 2022

Are you looking for something new? Something with an unusual twist? Something creepy and a touch mystical? If so, our crime fiction compatriot, Dr Jacky Collins, has found it. Whitesands by Icelandic author Johann Thorsson has all of those things and more. But before you…

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Sundial by Catriona Ward

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 March, 2022

At first glance, Catriona Ward’s new novel ticks all the boxes for standard domestic noir, but it has more to it than that. In a perfect suburban California setting lives a couple with two lovely young daughters, but of course things are not as they seem…

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When Things Get Dark – Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 October, 2021

Edited by Ellen Datlow — In 2018, when Netflix released The Haunting of Hill House, a whole new audience was introduced to renowned American horror and mystery writer Shirley Jackson’s work. Although the series is based on one of Jackson’s six novels she was best…

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12 chilling crime reads for Halloween 2021

By crimefictionlover

18 October, 2021

Why do we love crime fiction? Maybe one of the reasons is that it’s the genre where the monsters seem real – well, they don’t rely on magic, spells or supernatural powers to carry out their work. Usually it’s very human stuff. Or inhuman, in…

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Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

23 September, 2021

From the founder and publisher of Cemetery Dance Magazine, a publication specialising in horror and suspense, comes a spine-chilling story about a serial killer terrorising a small town in the state of Maryland. A metafictional retelling of events that took place in 1988, Chasing the…

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The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand

Hide by Kiersten White

The Doctor will see you now... Johann Thorsson

Sundial by Catriona Ward

When Things Get Dark – Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson

12 chilling crime reads for Halloween 2021

Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

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