Available for Review: Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce
Jun 12, 2024 12:48 am
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Novella: Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce
(release date June 20)
After a major accident leaves her in a dire financial situation, Maxine Forest returns to live in her childhood home. The empty husk holds only the memories of her father’s abuse and her mother’s reticence to leave him: her parents are nowhere to be found. The cocoon of her past remains unchanged, yet wrapped in the ghostly remnants of her mother’s whispered insistence that things could change.
Escaping the sins of her parents should be easy enough for Max, but those sins are intrinsic to her genetic make-up, so escape is impossible—succumbing, and metamorphosis, are inevitable.
Beyond the Bounds of Infinity: An Anthology of Diverse Horror
(release date July 10)
Welcome to a world of horror viewed through a kaleidoscope lens. Embark on a journey to untangle the writhing tendrils of human terror in a dimension where the possible and impossible blend; an unstable realm where comfort can be found in the coldest pits, and dark gods feast upon the sweetest suffering, where infernal sounds birth silent letters that drift along midnight shores and the unexplained lurks beneath crumbling urban structures. Step over the edge of what you think you know, and find yourself…Beyond the Bounds of Infinity!
Story Collection: Slow Burn by Mike Allen
(from Mythic Delirium Books)
The search for a missing grandson unearths a pit of unholy hunger. A war between flesh-stealing supernatural entities will subject an entire city to devastating mayhem. In a harrowing future world, a slave is charged by his terrifying master with building a creature in its likeness. The voyage of a plague ship won’t end at mere death. Parasites are partners and lovers, and the immortal soul is but a single stage in the complex life cycle of a symbiote.
SLOW BURN gathers fourteen stories of horror and thirteen macabre poems by two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen, author of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated collections UNSEAMING and AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT. Allen’s works are “exquisite and vivid, his worlds rich with brilliant detail,” says three-time Bram Stoker Awards® winner Christina Sng in her introduction. “The images he paints with words are terrifying and mesmerizing, keeping you enthralled and unable to look away.”
These tales and verses, set in worlds of fantasy and sorcery, in twisted, surreal futures, and in hard-boiled modern milieus . . . all find ways to explore the abyssal darkness of the human heart.
Story Collection: Innocence Ends by Nikolas P. Robinson
(from Uncomfortably Dark Press, only available through NetGalley)
Six friends meet in an isolated mountain town in Northern Idaho to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a close friend's suicide. A week of hiking, spending time in nature, and a bittersweet reunion soon takes a sinister turn as the friends find themselves fighting for their lives and struggling to survive.
A seemingly tranquil community bombarded by late spring storms becomes a trap filled with monsters and threats everywhere they turn. Terrifying secrets are revealed, and the survivors are left to wonder what will be left of the world outside if they can find a way to come through the gauntlet alive.
Story Collection: Where the Dead Don't Die by Ronald J. Murray
(from Uncomfortably Dark Press, only available through NetGalley)
From Elgin-award nominated author Ronald J. Murray comes a collection of novelettes and short stories that all contain elements of betrayal, and comfortably fit into such horror subgenres as psychological, supernatural, Lovecraftian, and erotic.
"Where the Dead Don't Die is a disorienting fall into psychological horror that will keep you turning pages and questioning reality. This is heartbreak and anxiety trapped in beautiful prose."-Sarah Read, Author of The Bone Weaver's Orchard