Category: Reviews

Epeolatry Book Review: There’s Something Here from Somewhere Else by Jonathon T. Cross

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Title: There’s Something Here from Somewhere Else
Author: Jonathon T. Cross
Genre: Cosmic Horror
Release Date: 8th February, 2024

Synopsis: When 10-year-old Lydia received a mysterious doll on her stoop, she never dreamed it would become the catalyst for a perilous adventure.
Although new to town, and shunned by the locals, she can’t dispel their whispers of an ancient creature dwelling beneath the still waters.
Some dismiss the creature’s existence, while others insist that the very fabric of their town, from its flora to its fauna, is under the influence of the Lurker.
Faced with tragedy, Lydia’s doll becomes a beacon of hope. But who gifted it, and can it protect her from the town’s oldest resident?
As Lydia grapples with the enigma of her doll and the dark forces that surround her, she forms an alliance with Jaxson, a cursed boy whose own destiny is entwined with the town’s secrets.
Together, they embark on a journey to resist the otherworldly influence of the Lurker. Can Lydia and Jaxson defy the odds and unravel the mystery before succumbing to the sinister will of this ancient entity?

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Epeolatry Book Review: Only the Living are Lost by Simon Strantzas

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Title: Only the Living are Lost
Author: Simon Strantzas
Genre: Weird Horror
Publisher: Hippocampus Press
Release Date: 3rd November, 2023

Synopsis: A new collection of 11 stories from one of the leading luminaries of the current wave of new weird fiction. Canadian author Simon Strantzas has been acknowledged as a key writer in this evolving area, thanks to a succession of insidiously disturbing shorter stories. This compilation, his first in five years, shows why.

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Solar Press Horror Anthology, Vol I, ed. Finnigan Houston & Nickol Houston

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Title: The Solar Press Horror Anthology, Vol I
Editors:Finnigan Houston & Nickol Houston
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Solar Press
Release Date: 2023

Synopsis: The Solar Press Horror Anthology Vol. I
Seventeen tales of terror from seventeen of the genre’s strongest voices. From bleak cyberpunk dystopias and surreal sadistic hospitals, to evil insects, psychic viruses, and lustful ancient deities.
High concept, strange, and stylish, The Solar Press Horror Anthology Vol. I is a collection of stories like none other.

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Epeolatry Book Review: We’re Not Ourselves Today by Jill Girardi and Lydia Prime

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Title: We’re Not Ourselves Today
Author: Jill Girardi and Lydia Prime
Genre: Pulp Horror
Publisher: Kandisha Press
Release Date: 16th March, 2024

Synopsis: WE’RE NOT OURSELVES TODAY is comprised of 13 pulp horror stories, full of razor-sharp teeth and buckets of blood–some old, some new, ALL HORRIFYING! Featuring superb cover art by Corlen Scope and inner artwork by Dedy Badic Art

If you’re looking for Margaret Mitchell, you best be Gone with the Wind… but if you’re looking for a BLOODY good time, these ladies wrote this book just for you.

Get ready to light a candle, settle into your moldiest armchair, and enjoy this wild ride!

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Epeolatry Book Review: Fiasco by Constance Fay

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Title: Fiasco
Author: Constance Fay
Genre: Space Opera Sci-fi; Action and Adventure Romance
Publisher: Bramble
Release Date: 4th June, 2024

Synopsis: Equal parts steamy interstellar romance and sci-fi adventure, Constance Fay’s FIASCO is a perfect wild romp amidst the stars.

Cynbelline Khaw is a woman of many names. She’s Generosity, a cultist who never quite fit in. She’s Bella, the daughter who failed to save her cousin’s life. And then there’s Cyn, the notorious bounty hunter who spaced a ship of slavers.

She’s exhausted, lonely, and on her very last legs—but then a new client offers her a job she can’t refuse: a bounty on the kidnapper who killed her cousin. All Cyn has to do is partner with the crew of the Calamity, a scouting vessel she encountered when she was living under a previous alias. One tiny little issue, she’s been given an additional bounty: deliver the oh-so-compelling medic, Micah Arora, to the treacherous Pierce Family or all her identities will be revealed, putting her estranged family in danger.

Hunting a kidnapper doesn’t usually mean accidentally taking your sexy new target to dinner at your parent’s house, a local mystic predicting you’ll have an increasingly large number of children, or being accompanied by a small flying lizard with a penchant for eating metal, but, as they field investigative hurdles both dangerous and preposterous, Cyn and Micah grow ever closer. When a violent confrontation reveals that everything Cyn thought about her past is wrong, she realizes that she has the power to change her future. The first part of that is making sure that Micah Arora is around to be a part of it.

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

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Title: The Night Guest
Author: Hildur Knútsdóttir
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Tor Nightfire,
Release Date: 3rd September, 2024

Synopsis:Hildur Knutsdottir’s The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.
Iðunn is in yet another doctor’s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something’s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven’t revealed any cause.
When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same ― have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.
Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .
What is happening when she’s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won’t anyone believe her?

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Epeolatry Book Review: Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

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Title: Ghost Station
Author:  S.A. Barnes
Genre: Space Horror
Publisher: Tor Nightfire,
Release Date: 9th April, 2024

Synopsis: Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of Eckhart-Reiser syndrome (ERS)—the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. It’s personal to her, and when she’s assigned to a small exploration crew who recently suffered the tragic death of a colleague, she wants to help. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that the crew is hiding something.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror, ed. Jacob Stephen Mohr

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Title: Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror
Editor:  Jacob Stephen Mohr
Genre: Horror/Epistolary
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Release Date: 1st December, 2023

Synopsis: EVIL LURKS BETWEEN THESE PAGES

A video game walkthrough harbors a sinister secret. A grieving sister’s letters cross the barrier between alive and dead (and alive again). A chain of frightening emails is the only evidence a young woman ever existed. And a series of journals follow a dwindling wagon train marching straight into Hell—or someplace worse.

Haunted podcast transcripts. Blood soaked police reports. Bewildering court findings.

Brace yourself for Dead Letters, an anthology that resurrects the chilling power of epistolary fiction—where ordinary documents become hidden records of our darkest fantasies and bleakest nightmares.

Across 21 all-original tales from talents like Gemma Files, Ai Jiang, Gordon B. White, J.A.W. McCarthy, and Red Lagoe, and curated with precision by Jacob Steven Mohr, Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror serves up a prolonged sojourn into the macabre—and promises to haunt your sleepless nights.

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