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"There's a monster outside and it's watching us." - Meiying Five years ago deep sea rescue dude Jonas Taylor is attempting to retrieve the crew of a disabled submarine in the depths of the Mariana Trench when things go heavily pear shaped. The disabled craft comes under attack from something...

"The Butcher wasn't bound to kill her" - Shannon Donahue Chris Shaw is a rising YouTube star based around his show that seeks out incantations, performs them, and hopefully gets some chill factor happening. Unfortunately for Chris thus far any number of spells have failed to raise the dead...

"Who are we if we can't protect them? We have to protect them." - Evelyn Abbott In a post-apocalyptic world Lee Abbott, his wife Evelyn, and their three children are fighting to survive. Seems a rogue monster horde has somehow been unleashed, never explained, and they hunt by sound. So to stay...

"It looks like the state we call delirium" - Neil Martin William Friedkin is of course the dude that brought us what many consider to be the greatest ever horror movie The Exorcist. With The Devil and Father Amorth he returns to his happy horror hunting ground, exorcism, though this time we are...

"Take a couple of tablespoons of cement and harden the hell up!" - Burt Gummer Burt is now running Chang's Market, which appears to be all that is left of Perfection, Nevada. On the bright side his estranged son Travis is also working in the business, on the darker side of the high powered...

"Let me put it this way. If this were a movie, it would take three or four sequels to do it justice." - Chucky Tiffany, Charles Lee Ray's ex-lover, isn't done with her psycho love interest and bribes a Cop to get Chucky's mangled remains out of the evidence locker. Doesn't end up well for the...

Lost Mars, edited by Mike Ashley This anthology is subtitled "The Golden Age of the Red Planet" and is a companion volume to the British Library's Moonrise, reviewed in my previous post. Like that book, this one includes some of the more interesting but largely forgotten SF of the past, and...

"It's not destroying... It's making something new" - Lena Lena's military husband Kane has been missing for about a year and she is not over the dude, which is kind of ironic if you have seen the movie. Anyways she is planning a rock hard weekend of painting the bedroom when who should show up...

"If you have the slightest bit of greed in your heart, he will turn it into an avalanche. He will slither into your soul." - Preacher Jesse, a struggling artist and heavy metal fan, moves with his family to an isolated Texas house that was the scene of a couple of murders by a deranged...

"Tim, I know you're really not into girls. But it's okay. Love is love. Now go out there and get yourself a fine piece of man-ass!" - Tree Gelbman Sorority chick Tree wakes up in the dorm room of college dweeb Carter Davis, who is so below her social level, so naturally she acts like a complete...

"Just think, Chucky's gonna be a bro" - Chucky Andy Barclay is now a 16th year old, with fundamental issues caused by his repeated clashes with the psychotic plastic fantastic, naturally when youth goes wrong you send them to a military academy to straighten out their lives. Also attending Kent...

"Not everything that moves, breathes, and talks is alive." - Il-Gwang In the village of Goksung, South Korea, a police officer named Jong-Goo has his easy life ruined by a series of brutal murders that have apparently been committed by people who have contracted a mysterious disease that makes...

"Well, Chucky was trying to take over my soul." - Andy Barclay It's been two years since Andy Barclay had a play date with the homicidal boy toy Chucky and he hasn't been exactly kicking goals in the interim. Mom is consigned to a mental institution, the Police are denying any knowledge of...

“His real name is Charles Lee Ray and he's been sent down from Heaven by daddy to play with me.” – Andy Got to love a 1980s horror flick, and this one sure is a blast. Whoever the hell green-lighted the concept of a murderous doll going on a rampage must have been expecting to finish their...

A right good romp on the Disc, full of madcap adventure and plenty of wonderment (plus a dash of introspection for good measure)! This is the first book of Pratchett’s long-running Discworld series, and the first gateway into all things Disc (yet it is not the only entry point). The story is...