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Dark Secrets: …a mixture of life and love…and terror Review

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This is the tale of a generation of a family that is cursed by the sins of their forefathers. The black moon comes but once a century, on the night before the first of May…Walpurgis Night, the Witches Sabbath. This night, when coupled with unknown ingredients supplied by the geographical area were the needed elements to facilitate the Revelation of the ultimate in Evil.

Theirs is the fourth generation of the family destined to bring about a foretold Evil that is to be the undoing of all of mankind. The difference between the first three generations and the fourth is the latter participants are unwilling parties to the heinous goings-on. But there was no rush… it was a well-known fact that the Cook Coven could afford to wait.

Dee James, our protagonist, is tested beyond mortal limits but perseveres and endures the hardships and pain inflicted on him by the past deeds of his wicked ancestors.

Join Dee in his quest to discover his past. He must learn his family’s past before he can challenge the future.

Will there be time… or will time run out?

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A Stir of Echoes Review

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Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he’s hearing the private thoughts of the people around him–and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom’s existence becomes a waking nightmare, greater jolts are in store when he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave!

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• What Dreams May Come: A Novel
• Hell House
• Somewhere In Time
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• I Am Legend

A Stir of Echoes CustomerReview

I’d only read I Am Legend by Matheson so I didn’t really know what to expect. What I found out pretty quickly is that this short, quick read is a little slow at first but then begins to pick up in intensity as Tom’s unwanted “powers” begin to form and take shape. What was starting to become and okay read turned out to be a pretty good book by the end.

The implications behind the powers that Tom began to have is pretty scary. At first it would seem cool to be able to read people’s thoughts, but after a while it would become tiresome and downright scary. This is exactly what Matheson showed in A Stir of Echoes as Tom soon finds out that people’s thoughts can be scary. I know I would want people poking around in my thoughts for sheer privacy alone, but what if someone could know what I was thinking?

In some cases, invariably, it would be not a bad thing but turn out to be good as Matheson uses the babysitter as an example. If he hadn’t of known what the babysitter was up to, or at least known the general feel of her thoughts, then he may very well would have had a kidnapped son or, even worse, a dead son. The other struggle Matheson shows well is Tom’s fight against it and its resulting side effects and eventually coming to acknowledge and accept his burgeoning powers so that it works with him and not against him.

Ultimately Matheson made a poignant story that the reader can relate to. So far I’ve enjoyed both books that I have read by Matheson, so I can only expect good from him in future books of his that I read. I would recommend the author and the book.

4 stars.

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The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (Mammoth Books) Review

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• The Mammoth Book of Terror (Mammoth Books)
• Stephen King’s Danse Macabre
• The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries
• The Mammoth Book of Monsters
• The Mammoth Book of New Terror

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This is one of the finest anthologies of supernatural fiction I have ever read. The short novel (novella) is, in the opinion of many, the perfect form for a work of supernatural terror, and the ten stories in this collection illustrate the point very well. They are a mixture of classic and more modern horror tales, covering a 100-year range (from the 1880s to the 1980s), and quite a few of them are very hard or impossible to find anywhere else:

“The Monkey”, by Stephen King – A man’s terrifying childhood toy has somehow returned to haunt him.

“The Parasite”, by Arthur Conan Doyle – A sceptical professor subjects himself to hypnotic experiments with disastrous results.

“There’s a Long, Long Trail A-Winding”, by Russell Kirk – A lonesome petty criminal with a good heart holes up in an abandoned house that seems to be haunted.

“The Damned”, by Algernon Blackwood – One of the most unusual haunted house stories ever written, in which the whole point is that nothing much happens.

“Fengriffen”, by David Case – A young bride at an old English manor comes under a horrifying family curse – or is it all in her mind? Although written by an American in the 1970s, this story masterfully creates a classic 19th-century Gothic atmosphere.

“The Uttermost Farthing”, by A. C. Benson – It’s a race to uncover the secrets hidden by a wicked dead man. Another unusual haunted house story, by E. F. Benson’s big brother.

“The Rope in the Rafters”, by Oliver Onions – A horribly disfigured WW-I veteran takes a room in an ancient French chateau, but he seems to have an unexpected roommate.

“Nadelman’s God”, by T. E. D. Klein – A pseudo-Satanic poem he wrote as a teenager (and which was later set to music by a heavy metal band) has come back to haunt the narrator in a very real way.

“The Feasting Dead”, by John Metcalfe – Many think that this powerfully creepy story is the gem of the collection, and I won’t disagree. A man’s son, staying with friends in France, returns with a very strange and unwelcome companion. The ending may be puzzling – indeed, the narrator never quite figures it out – but Metcalfe drops enough clues for an attentive reader to get at least a fairly good idea of what has happened.

“How the Wind Spoke at Madaket”, by Lucius Shepard – A wind monster from the sea wreaks bloody havoc on Nantucket. My least favorite story of the bunch, although even it has some very strong points.

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The Darkness of the Shadows

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A telegram sends five people on a vacation they will never forget. Arriving at their destination, they decide to spend the night in a mysterious, old mansion during a raging thunderstorm. Little do they realize a mysterious stranger is about to enter their lives. He tells them about a strange virus that has overtaken the occupants of the town. A former scientist himself, Herbert tells them about the military base and also top-secret experiments that were conducted away from the prying eyes of the world. For the next four days, the group, led by Sidney and Rachel Lawrence, try their best to keep themselves and their friends alive. They not only uncover the secret surrounding the old mansion and the military base, but they also make new friends. The government would like those secrets hidden from the eyes of the world.

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I’ve had the pleasure of reading this book and i love it! I could not put this book down! D.H. Reid impliments plenty of comedic relief and edge-of-your-seat suspense in this mystery book. He adds a dash of suspicion and keeps you wondering and guessing the famous age-old question to “Who dunnit?”. If you want a good mystery book that makes you laugh from time to time with lots of one-liner jokes, then this book is for you! I can’t wait to tell my friends to get this one! It also makes a great gift for anyone on your wishlist. I’m so glad i got and read this book which is hot off the presses.

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