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Review: When We Feel We Exist by Dre Hill

December 5, 2025 No Comments

Dre Hill’s When We Feel We Exist is an intimate collection of poems that slap you in the face with life’s enormity whilst quietly urging you to continue on as you were – on the condition that you notice.
This collection of poetry goes against the grain of Hill’s previous works, which historically evolved around black identity, love, loss and mental health. When We Feel We Exist is Dre Hill’s love letter to life itself. Not so much a collection of poems that flow onto the next, but a mosaic of heartfelt moments lovingly curated by Hill that, when presented side-by-side, symbolize so much more than the sum of their parts.

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Review: No Rest For the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams

December 5, 2025 No Comments

Rachel Louise Adams’s No Rest for the Wicked is the kind of eerie, slow-burn, atmospheric thriller that feels tailor-made for fall reading. Set in a Midwestern town that practically worships Halloween, the novel follows Dolores, an analytical emotionally guarded forensic pathologist who’s summoned home after almost twenty years, when an FBI agent calls to say her father has mysteriously vanished.

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Review: My Dreams Come True by Rocio Carranza

December 5, 2025 No Comments

My Dreams Come True by Rocio Carranza is a collection of eighteen horror short stories that remind you the real “horror” is human nature. The collection is full of strange and daunting writing that will leave you questioning the characters and Carranza’s true intentions. Separated into three parts, each section contains six unique short stories full of gore, supernatural hauntings, and the rawest depiction of human behavior.

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Review: Culling of the House of Boars by Jack Finn

December 5, 2025 No Comments

Culling of the House of Boars by Jack Finn is a horror novelette that drags you into the pits of darkness and leaves you with a thirst for blood. With Rome standing at the epicenter of the world, there’s only one clan that dared to stand against them, the Dacia. Failure refusing to be an option, they set out to create an army of unparalleled strength and need for vengeance. The Strigoi.

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Review: Signals from the Edge by David Horn

December 5, 2025 No Comments

David Horn’s Signals from the Edge, Tales from the Fault Lines of Time and Thought will take you to the future, to the past, and back around again. There is not a single story that drives his newest book, but a collection of them with a similar thread: memory. Memory is the little girl that arrives as a refugee on a planet, memory is a scrapbooks and forests and veterans, and memory is a fantastic octopus that can shape dreams after their capitalist repurpose. A small army of characters march through the pages, each one strikes a compelling and awe-inspiring figure. We are meant to love them, if temporarily, and take their lessons with us.

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Review: Pressing Matters by Paul Avery Tindol

December 5, 2025 No Comments

Pressing Matters written by Paul Avery Tindol, is a gory horror slasher novel made for music lovers and the woefully employed. Set in Luckenbach, Texas the novel follows a small crew of warehouse workers for the Luckenback Press, a vinyl record pressing plant, as they attempt to survive the daily drudgery full of hard work, little pay, and irritating bosses. But, when one co-worker suddenly disappears, the others face the wrath of long buried secrets and pay for the sins of their neglectful bosses.

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