Bark At The Ghouls

This one gets icky! My 2 Cents for Free! Spread Me by Sarah Gailey Released September 2025 Source: Netgalley Get it at your local library or see more @  Goodreads Spread Me is a frightfully, delightfully, off-puttingly weird little horror story. It probably won’t be for everyone. It is very much a twisted erotic horror tale. The blurb promises a “darkly seductive tale of survival” which doesn’t really express what awaits you inside its pages. Things happen pretty quickly and the atmosphere and slight claustrophobia set in right away as a small group of researchers break protocol and bring back a specimen to their living space that they find buried deep within the desert sand. The specimen makes almost everyone sick but they get over it soon enough. Or so they think! No one is prepared for what happens next. This crew is very open to romantic entanglements and partner swapping but Kinsey has always been uninterested and professional and keeps herself to herself. She’s also hiding a ...

This one will give you the creepy crawlies! Leech by Hiron Ennes Released September 2022 Source: Received for Review Consideration Dark Fiction  |   Goodreads   | Amazon In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed. In the frozen north, the Institute’s body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder. A parasite is spreading through the baron’s castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear. The two will make war on the battlefield of the body....

I read this for the #LOHFReadathon and our monthly #LOHFReadalong . Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes Released February 8, 2022 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   |  Bookshop Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals som...