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Like short and weird? I've got a recommendation for you! Departures by Scott Cole Released July 2022 Source: Received for Review Consideration Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads  | Amazon A new homeowner finds a large, inexplicable egg behind a door... A traveler seeks a bizarre creature from folklore... An abused spouse takes matters into their own hands... A stranger tempts passersby with a mystery in the trunk of his car... A man discovers a cemetery walled off from the rest of town... A family finds out what the vacation of a lifetime really entails... And a sleep aid wakes up. These are just some of the strange tales within, as Scott Cole returns with a new collection featuring his unique brand of unusual horror stories. My 2 Cents for Free! Scott Cole has a gleefully dark imagination and his books are always a wild time. This collection of short stories has a lot of body horror which always gets my attention. I don’t know why I like the gross stuff but sometimes, af...

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...

This book is so perfectly warped! Super Ghost by Scott Cole Published November 2019 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Received for Review Consideration Mad Science, Phantom Limbs, Giant Monsters, and Ice Cream! Darren Legend is a former construction worker who's lost his right arm. Michelle Mayfair is a former Olympic runner who no longer has her legs. And Dr. Griffin Rains wants to talk with both of them. He's a "phantom limb therapist"... who may also be a megalomaniacal mad scientist. When Dr. Rains assembles a giant ghost-monster from the phantom limbs he's stolen from hundreds of amputees, the city is in for the most bizarre nightmare it's ever seen. And it's up to Darren and Michelle, with the help of a few friends, to stop Rains and the strange terror of the SuperGhost! This newly-revised edition of Scott Cole's bizarro/sci-fi/horror novella also features a brand-new prequel short story, "The Science F...

This is a wildly fun book if such things can be said about a bloodbath, lol. Triple Axe by Scott Cole Released July 2018 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Received for Review Consideration Jesse Jinx is a porn star. She has dreams of starting her own adult film production company where she and the other actors will be treated more fairly. But there won’t be a production company if she can’t come up with the money—or if there aren’t any porn stars left. A deranged killer is on the loose, targeting adult entertainers, and choking them to death with a weapon that leaves no trace of itself. When the authorities refuse to help Jesse and her two closest friends, the three women decide to take matters into their own hands . . . with axes. As their colleagues fall one by one, they have a plan to stay alive—and they’re ready to hatchet! My 2 Cents For Free! Triple Axe is an amusing little serial...

Here's all the horror I've been reading recently with mini reviews and links to the Horror After Dark full reviews (if I didn't DNF). We Are Wormwood by Autumn Christian This book is gorgeously written but it might not be for everyone. The author creates a world filled with disturbing imagery and a protagonist who is unsure herself what is real and what isn't. I LOVED it and gobbled it up but you all know I have peculiar taste, lol.  4 1/2 Stars My full review is at Horror After Dark:    http://www.horrorafterdark.com/2019/05/review-we-are-wormwood-by-autumn-christian/ The Invited by Jennifer McMahon I read roughly half of this story before throwing in the towel. I don't do this lightly but I've come to the conclusion that life is far too short to struggle with a book that doesn't mesh with me. It started off on the wrong foot and never improved. I have worked in the construction industry most of my entire working life and found...