Bark At The Ghouls

I may simply be too grouchy for horror comedy 😅 Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer Released August 2022 Source: Library Borrow Goodreads   | Amazon A Chicago cul-de-sac is about to get a new neighbor...of the demonic kind.     Amy Foster considers herself lucky. After she left the city and moved to the suburbs, she found her place quickly with neighbors Liz, Jess, and Melissa, snarking together from the outskirts of the PTA crowd. One night during their monthly wine get-together, the crew concoct a plan for a clubhouse She Shed in Liz’s backyard—a space for just them, no spouses or kids allowed.       But the night after they christen the She Shed, things start to feel . . . off. They didn’t expect Liz’s little home-improvement project to release a demonic force that turns their quiet enclave into something out of a nightmare. And that’s before the homeowners’ association gets wind of it.       Even the calmest moms can’t justify the strange bu...

I think I was too grumpy for this one. Sign Here by Claudia Lux Released October 2022 Source: Library Borrow Goodreads   | Amazon A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul. Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jägermeister, but Pey has a plan—and all he needs is one last member of the Harrison family to sell their soul. When the Harrisons retreat to the family lake house for the summer, with their daughter Mickey’s precocious new friend, Ruth, in tow, the opportunity Pey has waited a millennium for might finally be in his grasp. And with the help of his charismatic coworker Calamity, he sets a plan in motion. But things aren’...

Another five-star read. Who am I?! Suckerville by Chris Sorensen Released June 2023 Source: Received for Review Consideration Goodreads   | Amazon A CREATURE FEATURE WITH TEETH... JD Speers is having a stretch of bad his wife left him, the law is on his tail, and to top it all off, bloodsucking leech people are attacking his favorite bar. Together with his buddy Rowdy and the barflies of Doc’s Dockside Tavern, JD must stop the suckers before they spread their contagion up and down the Mississippi River. "With Suckerville, Sorensen crafts a masterful tale that rips and roars its way through 80's Monster Movies and survive-at-all-costs horror fiction in a way that'll have readers salivating!" - Steve Stred, 2X Splatterpunk-Nominated author of Mastodon , Father of Lies and Churn the Soil "This is the most fun I've had with a book in a long time. Wonderful characters, disgusting gore and violence and a sense of humour that had me smiling like a loon." - Kend...

I apparently took an unintended hiatus here. Sorry about that! It was a bit wild here for a few weeks and I  now have a huge backlog of posts waiting for their turn so I'll try to do my best to push out a few each week until I catch up. Crazytimes by Scott Cole Published May 2020 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon  |  Bookshop Source: Received for Review Consideration  You wake up Monday morning and everyone is crazy. Everyone was already crazy, though, right? But somehow things are worse today. People are angry, throwing chairs out of office windows, eating rocks, violently scratching their necks, and running naked through the streets. They’re killing each other for no reason and laughing through the carnage. The whole city is like this. And meteors are falling from the hazy skies above. How are you going to survive? Do you even want to? This isn’t just another manic Monday. This is Crazytimes. My 2 C...