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Blew up my house. Took my wife. 3.5 out of 5
Slightly loopy science fiction thriller about what happens when a group of numbered people finally interact – them being clones of a sort of some famous people from history. Edison, Einstein, Robert E. Lee (yeah, cloners really biased to USA). Joan of Arc for some variety. Plus, Vlad the Impaler, Attilla the Hun, Jack the [...]
Fun story about a private eye in a world that has an ever increasing number of superbeings – so much so they have formed their own virtual international nation. Including his ex-wife. He’s just a normal guy with a camera, a car and a gun in a very specialised investigatory niche. Especially as he is [...]
A couple loses offspring in a fire. A wife’s investigation brings to light what is really going on with twin brothers – one her husband – their wealthy family, violent past, lovers and the twisted relationship between them. 3.5 out of 5
A brain smashing digesting falling out on a boat. 3.5 out of 5
Pet cemetery monster affection. 3.5 out of 5
Mum does the big D for me to Rock. 3.5 out of 5
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Murder Avoidance Queen. 3.5 out of 5
China doll volcano knife. 3.5 out of 5
Mum didn’t appreciate all the death stuff. 3.5 out of 5
One year murder deal renege. 3.5 out of 5
At 3.38 this group of horror works is his strongest collection, with one very strong story. Ashes : Homecoming – Scott Nicholson Ashes : Haunted – Scott Nicholson Ashes : The Christening – Scott Nicholson Ashes : She Climbs A Winding Stair – Scott Nicholson Ashes : Must See To Appreciate – Scott Nicholson Ashes [...]
Watching the dead line. 3.5 out of 5
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Murder is easy if you are a ghost. 3.5 out of 5
War money. 3.5 out of 5
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Wreck arrival. 3.5 out of 5
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Ghost Stamey baby save. 3.5 out of 5
Definitely not mice. 3.5 out of 5
“It owned her. Maybe it—the fear, the darkness, The Creep—wouldn’t take her this morning, but she knew it was out there. No, not out there. In here. In her head. The worst place of all. This was an inside job all the way. The monster rummaged in the rooms of her mind, hid in cramped [...]
The old get to go back and solve your own murder story. 3.5 out of 5
The old get to go back and solve your own murder story. 3.5 out of 5
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Another 3.30 type anthology from Nicholson – with one dead sheep standout. Zombie Bits : A Farewell to Arms – Scott Nicholson Zombie Bits : Bleeding Ink – Scott Nicholson Zombie Bits : Need – Scott Nicholson Zombie Bits : Survivors – Joe McKinney Zombie Bits : Carnival Knowledge – Scott Nicholson Zombie Bits : [...]
This is pretty bad and gray Daddy. 3.5 out of 5
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Finishing her bones. 3.5 out of 5
Hell it is, like a turtle shell. 3.5 out of 5
Too many zombies to kill, so guess my kids get eaten. 3.5 out of 5
A young Chicago detective gets involved when the operations of a crazy bookie crime boss spiral out of control as his underlings frame a hard man – who does not take it lying down. Many criminals to become terminally challenged in this one as two drinks team up. Tequila Abernathy and Jack Daniels. 3.5 out [...]
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Slab birth horror. 3.5 out of 5
Century past. 3.5 out of 5
Dust end. 3.5 out of 5
This time a crime story anthology with a couple of guests. At 3.31 again the same quality as the last two. Curtains : Dog Person – Scott Nicholson Curtains : Dead Air – Scott Nicholson Curtains : How to Build Your Own Coffin – Scott Nicholson Curtains : The Name Game – Scott Nicholson Curtains [...]
Wife knife. 3.5 out of 5
Say hi to Pete. 3.5 out of 5
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After me under any. 3.5 out of 5
Blood and nails. 3.5 out of 5
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Night Owl killer caller. 3.5 out of 5
A science fiction collection with a largely shared setting. Again, of consistent and equivalent quality to Flowers at 3.32. First : The Way of All Flesh – Scott Nicholson First : Floating Cathedral Song – Scott Nicholson First : Penance – Scott Nicholson First : Reckless Osmosis – Scott Nicholson First : Narrow is the [...]
Go-Boy viz, Keats. 3.5 out of 5
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Twin claws of guilt. 3.5 out of 5
Jetcar freedom. 3.5 out of 5
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Mass suicide special. 3.5 out of 5
Sculpting trial. 3.5 out of 5
Tapeworm rocked. 3.5 out of 5
Warrior creation. 3.5 out of 5
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Highly consistent spooky short story collection at 3.30. Flowers : The Vampire Shortstop – Scott Nicholson Flowers : Thirst – Scott Nicholson Flowers : When You Wear These Shoes – Scott Nicholson Flowers : Invisible Friend – Scott Nicholson Flowers : The Night the Wind Died – Scott Nicholson Flowers : Scarecrow Boy – Scott [...]
Appalachian monster Barry food. 3.5 out of 5
Maker Moon. 3.5 out of 5
Crazy-brain dummyhead half-dead. 3.5 out of 5
Rain girl unhappy. 3.5 out of 5
A reporter ends up in a small town. It is not as dull as he thinks as murders begin to happen. Circulation boosting murders and soon this story is of much greater interest. 3.5 out of 5
The US government has a demon in a hidden complex. Or what may be a demon, but could be an alien. People work there that are desperate enough have agreed to work on studying this thing that eats whole sheep like hamburgers and as it turns out is really smart, knows many languages and has [...]
A baby almost dies at birth until a slight sign of life leads some medics to decide to try and save it, sickly and weak life thought it may have. The boy grows up and gets along in an overpopulated and ruined world, eventually becoming involved with movers and shakers – and theri desire to [...]
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That’s enough killing and eating the ex, really. Let’s get married. 3.5 out of 5
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Another of the Crouch gun collections. This one has several good stories. SIX IN THE CYLINDER : PERFECT LITTLE TOWN – BLAKE CROUCH SIX IN THE CYLINDER : SERIAL – BLAKE CROUCH SIX IN THE CYLINDER : THE NEWTON BOYS’ LAST PHOTOGRAPH – BLAKE CROUCH SIX IN THE CYLINDER : THE METEOROLOGIST – BLAKE CROUCH [...]
Ouija planchette, Daddy. 3.5 out of 5
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Human Legacy Project and Democracy Device protection. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.livingdigitally.net/books/venom/venom.html
Me and the kid definitely might get eaten by a bear. Like the puppy. 3.5 out of 5
Captive choice chew. 3.5 out of 5
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Ghost fight. 3.5 out of 5
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Plenty of dead teenagers. 3.5 out of 5
Hellequin’s Flying one. Here’s your blighted world with baroque oddballs coming together under the Big Top. More than one monster would happily take a bit out of this motley crew of, both human and otherwise as the past catches up with more than one denizen in a strange reality. 3.5 out of 5
No end of bombs. 3.5 out of 5
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A graveyard has something not living subsisting there – plenty of bodies to eat. Three boys are friends – the violent father of one of them being a graveyard minder. Add in the girlfriend of a man who was eaten very recently and is rather fancied by the Ghoul for procreation purposes and you have [...]
Spiders, millions of them – and hybrid experiments to escape. Maybe. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.livingdigitally.net/books/anansi/anansi_island.html
An encounter with a strange alien form of life leaves a group of early Saturn explorers very changed. Later, post Solar System War their existence they feel is threatened by some whose memories are being recovered by a specialist – that they thought they had killed. Problem for them in this second of the Cold [...]
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Beating up a beater. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/32537
““If one green bottle should accidently fall… it might just crack its skull and lie bleeding to death in Marylebone Lane.”” or following Konstantin ends violently. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/37062
“Have you heard of the Jekyll-Frankenstein serum?” 3.5 out of 5 http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/alternative-history/lavie-tidhar/the-stoker-memorandum
Lost girl and lost purse keys murder setup. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7555
artificial intelligence pathways. 3.5 out of 5 http://kriswrites.com/2012/01/23/free-fiction-monday-the-questing-mind/
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A detective working on some murders finds something disturbing – a vampire. He also ends up as one and ends up trying to trace the vampire, bringing him deep into another world and also a change of cop career locations. 3.5 out of 5
A young man goes back to the old town. Well, the old hamlet if you like. His problem is what goes on at the church there. A good, new-fangled snake cult. Complete with supernatural entities and rituals involving such. Young women, bad things, etc. Snakes, supernatural and crazy Californian hillbillies in this polished horror novel. [...]
The Langoliers meets Invasion of the Zombie Body Snatchers. Or a few people left around after a strange electromagnetic incident find out that the fellow that all wear shades and gloves are out to get them. And something is in their heads. 3.5 out of 5
A lot is packed into this novel, the third of a series of which I have not read the other two. A special unit of cops gets some dangerous situations in a unit that bears the series name. Their lead also had Internal Affairs and FBI problems. As well as wanting some vigilante revenge about [...]
A man is swallowed by a giant undead ape and his spousal unit has to try and get him back. 3.5 out of 5
This time it is the Mossad that wants Rain to remove someone – thanks to Delilah’s recommendation. And interestingly a couple of small sections are told from Delilah’s point of view – sign of increasing importance? Things go pear-shaped when he is about to knock off his explosives expert target and the man’s kid walks [...]
The second Icarus project book follows on from the first, as Jet and Iridium deal with the breakdown of the drug and mind control of the Extrahuman population of the USA. To do so involves one of the good old methods – ask some of the less nasty villains rotting in prison for help. Which [...]
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A young policewoman is involved with a detective in the same force. A distinct no-no by the regulations. He is trying to solve multiple poisoning murders and deal with what happens after they get caught. They both have other women expressing interest in them as a result of the case, which doesn’t make things easier. [...]
A third solid entry in this series as now High Priest Acatl has to deal with murder and worse in a magical epidemic. As he has grown to realise more and more, these things are usually the results of a power struggle from those passed over or yet to come into more power – even [...]
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Not quite as strong as the first two. Here Rain follows through on his plans to decamp to Brazil for security reasons, in a couple of stages. However, the CIA pulls him back into, wanting him to dispose of an arms dealer. It isn’t as simple as that though, pointing out that the CIA right [...]
The son of Philip of Macedon? Alexander of Macedon. Yeah, that Great guy with the big black horse that took a fancy to taking over the world. First he has to survive being a kid and kidnapped into another universe that still has centaurs and minotaurs. Then getting Greece together with Parmenion’s help so they [...]
First of the Ghost Files series apparently. A couple as ghosthunters. With the woman providing the paranormal power and the bloke the support. Fairly lighthearted for dealing with the dead as the pair banter back and forth in this investigation of a young girl’s spirit from old history of the school. So if looking for [...]
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Dead Man 1 A man goes skiing with his more competent girlfriend and ends up getting caught in an avalanche. Some history found out in flashbacks of the relationship between him and his best friend as three months later he thaws out and comes back to life. His best friend now something evil that needs [...]
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London Bridge River killings, Ripper relative. 3.5 out of 5
A special forces operation in Afghanistan comes across something disturbing. Taliban enemies that don’t die if you shoot them. Also like to bite their foes. As tends to happen in these things, this disease spreads exponentially. Those affected show the ability to actually learn. Use tools like rocks and then guns and even vehicles. In [...]
Decapods and dwarf dolphins. 3.5 out of 5
I still love you, even if you destroyed your fleet and made a whole planet commit suicide. 3.5 out of 5
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Also a wizard and the odd knight. 3.5 out of 5
Buy a book or us dead guys will get you. 3.5 out of 5
Killing Rags. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Sun Never Rises In the Big City – Jeremy Shipp
Asterator deuteron control. 3.5 out of 5
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Bullets work on magical people, too. 3.5 out of 5 http://kriswrites.com/2012/01/16/free-fiction-monday-the-thrill-of-the-hunt/
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Quite a bit faster, sea or land. 3.5 out of 5
Maggots are arse. 3.5 out of5
Bodies to use good, fire, a Franken problem. 3.5 out of 5
A bit of Hel game. 3.5 out of 5
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That Roswell business again. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Harry Truman vs The Aliens – Victor Gischler
A robot gets independent. 3.5 out of 5
A decent short horror collection with the title story the strongest. Anything Can Be Dangerous : ANYTHING CAN BE DANGEROUS – Matt Hults Anything Can Be Dangerous : FEEDING FRENZY – Matt Hults Anything Can Be Dangerous : THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH – Matt Hults Anything Can Be Dangerous : THE FINGER – Matt [...]
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Arrowed and shot down in the good old burial ground. 3.5 out of 5
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