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Epeolatry Book Review: Enough Time by J. Edwin Buja

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Title: Enough Time
Author: J. Edwin Buja
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Publication date: 28th April, 2025

Synopsis: In a paranormal tale that blends time travel, reincarnation, and historical horror fiction, you’re too late to save the love of your life from being murdered. This tragic history repeats itself every forty years, but now it’s only been thirty-five years and it’s time to break the cycle.
In 2020, Emma Ranahan laments that her annual torment is about to begin again. Every January, she has horrible nightmares about torture and murder. None of it makes any sense to her. The only thing she remembers clearly are the words Hero, Victim, Beast, and Friend.
In 1865, Colonel Beauregard Kensington, war hero, psychopath, racist, and cannibal, butchers former slave Emmeline Ronaghan. Captain Philip Daweson, pays with his life, but is unable to prevent the murder of the woman he loves. Major Obadiah O’Dale kills the colonel and cleans up the mess.
In 1905, 1945, and 1985, descendants of the original four players re-enact the events with the same tragic results.
Imagine Somewhere in Time with lots of blood.
Having started early, will the scenario play out again, or can the cycle of death be stopped? And is everyone who they think they are?
With a violent paranormal romance and a female protagonist desperate to change her fate, this supernatural horror book will leave readers captivated by its dark and tragic love story.

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Epeolatry Book Review: A Burnt Offering by Mark T. Bates

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Title: A Burnt Offering
Author: Mark T. Bates
Genre: Horror
Publisher: The Dark Corner
Publication date: June, 2025

Synopsis: Fresh from the horrors of World War II and battling his own internal demons, David, a young veteran, arrives at a seemingly quaint London guesthouse run by the enigmatic Mrs. Van Der Hagen. Seeking solace and a new beginning, he hopes to reconnect with a friend who supposedly stayed there before him.

However, from the moment David steps through the door, an unsettling atmosphere pervades the house. Strange occurrences, Mrs. Van Der Hagen’s peculiar mannerisms, and a cryptic encounter with another long-term resident, Colonel Joseph Shaw, begin to chip away at David’s fragile composure. As he tries to piece together the truth about his friend’s whereabouts and the guesthouse’s unsettling history, David finds himself increasingly trapped in a nightmare that blurs the lines between his wartime trauma and a terrifying reality.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Urban Legends: Three New Tales of Terror (Dark Tide Book 20) by Nick Roberts, Dan Franklin, and Leigh Kenny

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Title: Urban Legends: Three New Tales of Terror (Dark Tide Horror Novellas)
Authors: Nick Roberts, Dan Franklin, Leigh Kenny
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Publication date: 6th May, 2025

Synopsis: Enter the world of terrifying urban legends where the lines between myth and reality blur into a nightmare of unexplainable horrors. In this spine-chilling volume, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and familiar fears are taken to unimaginable heights.
Features a foreword by Adam Cesare, the author of Clown in a Cornfield (now a feature film).
“Nesting” by Dan Franklin, “Knock on Wood” by Leigh Kenny, “Poltergeist Password” by Nick Roberts
Dark Tide 20 takes you on a terrifying journey through some of the most unsettling myths and folklore, where terror lurks in the shadows and urban legends come alive in the most horrific ways. Prepare for twists, fear, and truths you may not want to know.
Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Where Stories Come Alive!

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel

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Title: The Vinyl Detective
Author: Andrew Cartmel
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Publisher: Titan Books
Publication date: 15th April, 2025

Synopsis: The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of Italian movie soundtrack music in his eighth adventure that is sure to delight those who love whimsical British cosy crime. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.

Some of the greatest (and grooviest) music ever committed to vinyl has come out of Italy in the form of soundtracks—especially for that variety of lurid thriller known as a giallo. The maestros who composed these masterpieces include Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Armand Trovajoli… And Loretto Loconsole.

No one disputes that Loconsole was a genius, but was he also a murderer?

When his mistress was brutally killed in 1969, on location in Cool Britannia for a giallo called Murder in London, there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute him. But Loconsole died in the shadow of disgrace. Now, his granddaughter Chloë has come back to England to hire the Vinyl Detective. She wants him to find an immaculate vinyl copy of Murder in London…

And to clear her grandfather’s name.

Can the Vinyl Detective and the gang—Nevada, Tinkler and Agatha—find out the truth of what happened in Swinging London more than half a century ago? And can they stay alive when there’s someone out there who’d prefer the secrets of the past to remain buried—and is more than willing to kill to keep it that way?

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Epeolatry Book Review: Thin Slices by Melody E. McIntyre

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Title: Thin Slices
Author: Melody E. McIntyre
Genre: Horror Literature
Publisher: Independent
Publication date: 12th January, 2025

Synopsis: Welcome to Thin Slices, the debut collection from Melody E. McIntyre, writer of short, dark fiction. With over 90 stories, all less than 1000 words apiece, this little book is bursting with scares. Melody drew her inspiration from history, mythology, science fiction, monsters, ghosts, and secret places only accessible by night.

These stories may be tiny, but the terrors they invoke are anything but.

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Midnight Muse by Jo Kaplan

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Title: The Midnight Muse

Author: Jo Kaplan

Genre: Horror; Mystery and Thrillers

Publisher: CLASH Books 

Publication Date: March 10th, 2026

 

Synopsis:

When a metal band’s lead singer vanishes in the woods, the mushrooms in the forest might know more than they’re letting on in this mycelium-metal horror novel from Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Jo Kaplan.

The dead collect in low places. That’s what Brynn Werner, lead singer of metal band Queen Carrion, wrote in her notebook before she vanished while staying at a cabin in Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest.

A year later, on the anniversary of her disappearance, the rest of her bandmates visit the cabin to remember her and find a way to move on. But tensions arise over who should be their new singer and who is responsible for Brynn’s disappearance—tensions that boil over as they realize not all is as it seems at Trail Creek Cabin.

Strange entries in the guestbook write about visions of a pale form that moves through the trees, figures wearing gas masks lurk in the distance, and there’s a strange fungus growing from the wall of a tunnel in the cabin’s basement. Then they hear Brynn’s voice echo impossibly through the forest—and the pale form that emerges from the trees is her perfect likeness. Is it her ghost…or something else?

Brynn knew there was a secret in these woods. It’s why she chased her muse here to finish her masterpiece. The Midnight Muse is an alluring and grotesque dissection of self and fungus. Kaplan delivers an ominous spiral of psychological torment as the members of Queen Carrion slip into a more natural skin.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

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Title: Lucky Day
Author: Chuck Tingle
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Publication date: 12th August, 2025

Synopsis: Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it’s not always good.

Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.

When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he’s investigating a suspiciously―and statistically impossibly―lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it’s Vera’s last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.

Because what’s happening in Vegas isn’t staying there, and she’s the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Enough Time by J. Edwin Buja

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Title: Enough Time
Author: J. Edwin Buja
Genre: horror, time travel, paranormal
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Publication date: 2nd May, 2025

Synopsis: In a paranormal tale that blends time travel, reincarnation, and historical horror fiction, you’re too late to save the love of your life from being murdered. This tragic history repeats itself every forty years, but now it’s only been thirty-five years and it’s time to break the cycle.
In 2020, Emma Ranahan laments that her annual torment is about to begin again. Every January, she has horrible nightmares about torture and murder. None of it makes any sense to her. The only thing she remembers clearly are the words Hero, Victim, Beast, and Friend.
In 1865, Colonel Beauregard Kensington, war hero, psychopath, racist, and cannibal, butchers former slave Emmeline Ronaghan. Captain Philip Daweson, pays with his life, but is unable to prevent the murder of the woman he loves. Major Obadiah O’Dale kills the colonel and cleans up the mess.
In 1905, 1945, and 1985, descendants of the original four players re-enact the events with the same tragic results.
Imagine Somewhere in Time with lots of blood.
Having started early, will the scenario play out again, or can the cycle of death be stopped? And is everyone who they think they are?
With a violent paranormal romance and a female protagonist desperate to change her fate, this supernatural horror book will leave readers captivated by its dark and tragic love story.

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