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Epeolatry Book Review: The Ward by Cavan Scott

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Title: The Ward
Author: Cavan Scott
Artist: Andres Ponce
Letters: Mauro Mantella
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Release Date: 31st January, 2023

Synopsis: St. Lilith’s is a secret hospital for supernatural creatures. A place, and a life, Dr. Nat Reeves thought she left behind. She was wrong.

When a wounded woman with a tail appears on her doorstep, Nat crash-lands at her old job in the emergency room of the city’s last recourse for the otherworldly ill. The personnel are overworked, the facility is underfunded, and all operations must be kept hidden from the public, including Nat’s own family. Some of the staff, like the self-duplicating nurse Lydia Black, are glad to have her back. Others, like Luis Cervantes, a new resident with something to prove (and more to hide), not so much. And who can tell what Dr. Kumasaka, the ghostly head of the department, is thinking?

All Nat knows is that the overwhelming need they face every day is enough to keep the truth of why she left St. Lilith’s at bay, at least, for a while. Then a magical plague hits the city, and everything sets to change, for everyone.

From the author of bestselling titles for Star Wars, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Warhammer 40,000, Vikings, Judge Dredd, and others comes an intense medical drama abound with fairies, trolls, and real human pathos.

Collects The Ward: Welcome to the Madhouse #1–#4.

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Warden by Daniel M. Ford

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Title: The Warden
Author: Daniel M. Ford
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, LGBTQ+
Release Date: 18th, April, 2023
Synopsis: There was a plan.

She had the money, the connections, even the brains. It was simple: become one of the only female necromancers, pass as many certifications as she could, get a post near the capital, then… profit. The funny thing about plans is that they are seldom under your control.

Now Aelis, a daughter of a noble house and a trained Magister of the Lyceum, finds herself in the far-removed village of Lone Pine. Mending fences and delivering baby goats, serving people who want nothing to do with her. But, not all is well in Lone Pine, and as the villagers Aelis is reluctantly getting to know start to behave strangely, Aelis begins to suspect that there is far greater need for a warden of her talents than she previously thought.

Old magics are restless, and an insignificant village on the furthest border of the kingdom might hold secrets far beyond what anyone expected. Aelis might be the only person standing between one of the greatest evils ever known and the rest of the free world.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Femina by Caitlin Marceau

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Title: Femina
Author: Caitlin Marceau
Publisher: Dark Lit Press
Genre: Horror, Short stories, Contemporary fiction, LGBTQIA+
Release Date: 2nd December, 2022

Synopsis: FEMINA: A Collection of Dark Fiction explores the horror of womanhood. Or, more accurately, the horror of gender norms and societal expectations placed on women. This book delves into themes of identity, motherhood, sexuality, and isolation. A mix of Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person and Other Stories” and Carmen Maria Machado’s “Her Body and Other Parties: Stories”, this collection is a blend of psychological, supernatural, and body horror. FEMINA looks at the horror of being a woman in a man’s world.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Our Encounters with Evil & Other Stories Library Edition

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Title: Our Encounters with Evil & Other Stories Library Edition
Author: Mike Mignola  (Author, Illustrator), Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Author, Illustrator), Clem Robins (Illustrator)
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Genre: Horror, Adventure, Graphic Novel
Release Date: January 10th, 2023

Synopsis: Join monster hunters extraordinaire and jump into eerie and whimsical Victorian-style tales of monster hunters, vampires, and supernatural sleuths in this collection that is equal parts chilling and charming.

In this three part collection, Professor Meinhardt and his assistant Mr. Knox pursue the undead and Mr. Higgins’ tragic history; explore strange supernatural happenings with investigator Ms. Mary Van Sloan, and seek to uncover the truth of the prolific vampire slayer and one-time compatriot of theirs, James Falconspeare.

Collecting Mr. Higgins Comes Home, Our Encounters with Evil, and Falconspeare from Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell’s iconic team-up.

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

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Alien: Inferno's Fall

Title: The Mimicking of Known Successes
By: Malka Older
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Genre: Sci-Fi/LGBTQ+
Release Date: 7th March, 2023

Synopsis: On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university―and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems.

Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti’s assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake―and, perhaps, their futures, together.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Coffin Shadows by Glen Krisch and Mark Steensland

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Alien: Inferno's Fall

Title: Coffin Shadows
Author: Glen Krisch and Mark Steensland
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
Genre: Occult Horror/Supernatural Thriller
Release Date: TBC 2023

Synopsis: 12 YEARS AGO Janet Martlee’s infant son died under mysterious circumstances. Consumed with grief and anger, she ran away to start again… YESTERDAY a 12-year-old boy with dead eyes appeared in her classroom, begging for help. But Janet doesn’t believe in ghosts… TODAY her psychiatrist tells her she must return home to confront her past and uncover the mystery of what happened… Only some questions don’t want to be answered. And some answers hide in the shadows… In the COFFIN SHADOWS.

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Mouth is a Coven by Liz Worth

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Alien: Inferno's Fall

Title: The Mouth is a Coven
Author: Liz Worth
Publisher:  Manta Press Ltd
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Release Date: 11th, September, 2022

Synopsis: Have you ever seen a ghost? In Starling City, there are spirits on every street corner. Everyone in town seems to have at least one ghastly tale to tell.

So, it’s no wonder that a place like this breeds people like Blue and Julie, who summon demons just for fun and are obsessed with a local legend of a vampire named Matter. They hang out in dark clubs on a desolate downtown street and hope, desperately, that Matter will one day find them.

Because if they could become vampires, all of their problems will disappear. Just like the movies, they’ll never get old, and they will never die. They won’t have to worry about working or making rent, because the mundane world will no longer apply to them.

One night, their wish comes true: It turns out Matter is real. Except Blue and Julie soon learn that being a vampire isn’t exactly like you see in the movies. Abandoned, they are left on their own to figure out how to live as the undead – not to mention what to do with all those dead bodies piling up.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Daisy by Colin Lorimer

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Alien: Inferno's Fall

Title: Daisy
Author: Colin Lorimer (Story and Art) with Joana Lafuente (Colors), Jim Campbell (Lettering) and Anita Vu (Cover colors and additional colors)
Publisher:  Dark Horse
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Graphic Novel
Release Date: 3rd November, 2022

Synopsis: A desperate mother’s search for her missing son leads to the mysterious family of Daisy Phillips. Like many teens, Daisy has a hard time fitting in, but for atypical reasons: Daisy stands over eight feet tall and believes herself descended from cannibalistic giants spawned from the outcasts of Heaven. This frail, disfigured youth may hold the key to unlock the Language of Creation – the divine DNA of God – and expose the monstrous lie hidden within Creation itself.

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