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Just like Rumfitt's previous book, this book will upset you. Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt Released October 2023 Source: Received for Review Consideration Goodreads   | Amazon From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror” (Publishers Weekly) — comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence and pleasure. When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, fucking strangers, pushing away her friends. Then she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya. The two hit it off immediately, but as their relationship intensifies, so too does Frankie’s feeling that Vanya is hiding something from her. When Vanya’s secrets threaten to tear them apart, Frankie starts digging, and unearths a sinister, depraved conspiracy, the roots of which go deeper than she ever imagined. Shocking, ...

This book will upset you. Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt Released January 2023 Source: Received for Review Consideration Goodreads   | Amazon Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go. Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own. My 2 Cents for Free! This book is extremely timely. It’s a scathing look at fascism, TERFism, and the complete lack of empathy that has become commonplace everywhere you...

This book delivers on its cover. Maeve Fly by CJ Leede Released June 2023 Source: Received for Review Consideration Goodreads  | Amazon By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green - her best friend’s brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet. Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it’s Maeve’s turn with the knife. My 2 Cents for Free! Lookie, Maeve Fly has a little bit of something for almost everyone: ☑️ A dark and spicy-sweet hockey romance w/ bite 🦷 ☑️ Creative lessons on how to use your styling tools and new uses for eggs (how di...

This one is wild. Murder House by C.V. Hunt Published May 2020 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon  |   It’s not the house you should be afraid of, it’s the people who live there. Laura’s boyfriend, Brent, is an author and he’s writing a true crime book about the Hallows' Eve Massacre. The publisher has given Brent a tight deadline and the opportunity to stay in the house where the massacre took place. But the basement creeps Laura out and she’s left questioning her sanity after she sees things that may or may not be there. When Brent begins to act strange, Laura writes it off to the pressure of his deadline. Is Laura really losing her mind or is there something in the house that’s changing the couple? My 2 Cents For Free! Cockblock by C.V. Hunt is one of my favorite books. It’s a madcap adventurous tale about a very strange apocalypse with a brutally perfect ending and I highly recommen...

Here's a brutal little horror gem to darken up your day! 👿 Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke Published January 2012 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Purchase with my own $ On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers — a family of cannibalistic lunatics — are closing in. A soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder returns from Iraq to the news that his brother is among the murdered in Elkwood. In snowbound Detroit, a waitress trapped in an abusive relationship gets an unexpected visit that will lead to bloodshed and send her back on the road to a past she has spent years trying to outrun. And Claire, the only survivor of the Elkwood Massacre, haunted by her dead friends, dreams of vengeance... a dream which ...

Here's a lovely little story to brighten your day. ♥  Just kidding! Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana Published June 2018 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Purchased Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. She has everything a girl of sixteen is supposed to want. And she’s sick to death of it. In search of something to pull her out of her suicidal thoughts, she begrudgingly decides to lose her virginity, having heard it’s a life-changing event. But Kim doesn’t want to do it the same way her peers do. She seduces one of her teachers, hoping to ruin his life just for the fun of it. This starts Kim on a runaway train of sadism, and she makes every effort to destroy the lives of those around her. But soon simple backstabbing is not enough to keep her excited, and she nosedives into sabotage, violence, and even murder. When Kim finds out she’s pregnant with h...

This one is something else! Sociopaths In Love by Andersen Prunty Released 2013 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Received for Review Consideration Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They move in together and start a new life. They're beautiful and they have new things, expensive things, the best of everything, whatever they want. But that's only the surface. Beneath the surface is something much different. Something much darker. Theirs is a love like no other and only one of them will survive it. .  My 2 Cents For Free! I don’t know why I pick up books like these. It’s some strange compulsion that I cannot ignore. Some are better than others. This one falls right about in the middle but scores all the points for the gross-out. An unhinged man enters the home of a young lady caring for her ill granny. He’s not there to make friends and have some tea either! He’s a dude who ta...

This book is icky but I liked it, haha. Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt Released October 2015 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source:  Received for Review Consideration Nick Graves is a miserable man. Every day he comes home from his dream job to a stale marriage. On the day he finally summons the courage to tell his wife, Eve, he wants a divorce she has exciting news for him – she’s pregnant. Nick is a spiteful man. He purchases his dream home in an ideal location far away from family, friends, and coworkers. It’s a life changing decision he’s chosen to make without Eve’s consultation. Nick is a terrified man. He quickly realizes the residents of his new hometown are a bit eccentric. After a trip to the local doctor’s office Eve begins to behave strangely. And once Nick finds out what’s really going on he’ll never be able to look at Eve the same way. My 2 Cents For Free! A ...

Carole @ Carole's Random Life In Books  has created a fun feature called Books from the Backlog to spotlight neglected and unloved books that have been sitting on your bookshelf for too long. If you would like to join in, click the pic above to find out more. My Neglected Book of the Week is  THIS SYMBIOTIC FASCINATION by Charlee Jacob  which has a 3.67 rating on Goodreads. The most consistent words I see when skimming reviews is "disgusting" and "disturbing". Well, that sounds delightful to me.   The Goodreads Blurbage: Tawne Delaney is not what men consider beautiful and, at 37, is very lonely. She fantasizes about her dream lover--but the man she meets is a nightmare. Arcan Tyler is a rapist and murderer, possessed by animal spirit forces. If they are unleashed, he will cease to be human. For now, Arcan is all too human, and finds something new and rare in Tawne. But love among these creatures is not romantic: it is parasitic. ...

Feeling too good about life? This book will change your tune :) Worship Me by Craig Stewart Hardcore Horror Fiction   Released July 2017 Amazon  ♦  Goodreads Something is listening to the prayers of St. Paul's United Church, but it's not the god they asked for; it's something much, much older. A quiet Sunday service turns into a living hell when this ancient entity descends upon the house of worship and claims the congregation for its own. The terrified churchgoers must now prove their loyalty to their new god by giving it one of their children or in two days time it will return and destroy them all. As fear rips the congregation apart, it becomes clear that if they're to survive this untold horror, the faithful must become the faithless and enter into a battle against God itself. But as time runs out, they discover that true monsters come not from heaven or hell... ...they come from within.  My Thoughts: We all need a little darkness in our readin...

This was a fun collection if you like your fiction bloody. Splatterpunk Fighting Back edited by Jack Bantry & Kit Power Horror Fiction   Released November 2017 Amazon  ♦  Goodreads A row with a boyfriend leads to unexpected and bloody consequences...  A high powered CEO undertakes a highly unusual therapy to take his career to the next level…  A mother frantically searches for the child as the world burns…  Featuring new fiction by Adam Millard, Matt Shaw, Bracken MacLeod, John Boden, Duncan Ralston, Rich Hawkins, Glenn Rolfe, George Daniel Lea, Tim Curran, WD Gagliani & Dave Benton and Kristopher Rufty.  My Thoughts: Splatterpunk Fighting Back is a charity anthology with proceeds going towards cancer. I have a love/hate relationship with anthologies. I love reading them because even if a story isn’t working for me it’s usually over quickly but I dread reviewing them. They are so much work but here goes. I’m not goi...

This one is most definitely not for the faint of heart or most anybody else! Sadie the Sadist  by Zane Sachs   Extreme Horror Fiction Amazon ♦ Goodreads Like many people, Sadie feels undervalued and frustrated. Employed by a supermarket, she plots to murder coworkers—or lure them into the employee bathroom for a quickie. Sick of being treated like a robot, she taps into a powerful (and deranged) alter-ego and transforms into Sadie the Sadist. READER BEWARE: This book contains graphic violence, psycho/sexual incidents, and Sadie’s favorite recipes. X-tremely Black Humor/Horror. "You have never read anything like Sadie the Sadist -- a pitch black satire that is not only deeply disturbing but funny as hell." –Blake Crouch, Author, Wayward Pines My Thoughts   Sadie despises her job. And you can’t really blame her. Her Assistant Manager is a Type A personality (the A in this case stands for ass) who forces her to shuck corn until her hands are num...

From the man who brought us Hung Hounds comes a short story that promises to be twisted, gross and violent. How can you resist? This one's free for the  Kindle Amazon US . The Green Tea Heist  by  Donald Armfield Exreme Horror  44  Pages Amazon  ♦  Goodreads Tommy Two can pull off any type of heist. From bank robberies, to hijacking vehicles, but his forte is jewelry heists. Working for the Cortez Family, Tommy brings a certain exuberance to the table, dropping the mic with just his self as the stand alone heist man. A group of scientists step in with a new unexplained substance said to reanimate the dead to add to Tommy Two's latest jewel heist, that will line his pockets with large amounts of cash.All hell breaks loose when the cocktail hour is served. A body horror, zombie, erotica that will give a whole new meaning to HIT THE DECK! You're welcome!

Ordeal by Wol-vriey, Horror Fiction Jack is a merciless serial rapist and murderer. He chooses his female victims carefully. But tonight, he's selected the wrong woman. Now, for Jack, it's all downhill from here on. Download 'Ordeal' free here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view... [Explicit Content Warning: This is a work of dark erotica/extreme horror fiction, one depicting acts of explicit sex and violence. This book is not recommended for the squeamish reader.] I'm giving this one 3 out of 5 and here's why: So I see the words “Ordeal” and “Extreme Horror” and, most importantly, “Free” and somehow figure this would be the perfect little story to read in between longer books. It had been over a year since I read “Sadie the Sadist” , after all, and I was overdue for something nasty. Once I started to read I could do nothing else but follow the words along until the end. Take this as a warning. Now that I’ve finished Ordeal, I c...