Five Terrifying Tales for Halloween
Halloween is just over a week away, and as part of our promotions for all books concerned with the things that go bump in the night, we wanted to spotlight five great horror titles that we think you'll love!
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Sean Bunce- Fear the Night
"Based on a true story" is a set of words that never fail to send shivers down our spines when we're reading or watching horror, and Sean Bunce's 'Fear the Night' is indeed based in truth. Sleep paralysis affects a speculated 7.6% of the population, and some sufferers report hallucinating a stranger, or feel a sense of dread or impending doom. Bunce's novel takes this concept and injects a supernatural element; what if the horrific visions you see could actually hurt you?
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Otto Redman- The Vampire of Portsmouth
Drawing inspiration from the charismatic, tortured immortals of Anne Rice's fiction, Otto Redman writes of Hellen Oswold, a young woman struggling to cope with her tumultuous life. After a chance encounter with the mysterious, charming Adam Decker, her unconscious hours are gripped by terrible, unexplainable nightmares. She finds mysterious marks on her neck, she feels like she is being watched, and in her dreams, she hears a strange voice calling to her. Will she be able to save her own soul, or will she succumb to the darkness?
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Sandrea Mosses- Psychic Children
Written by established psychic Sandrea Mosses, 'Psychic Children' details a first-hand account of children and their experiences with unwanted, malevolent entities. Recalling encounters she and her team have had when visiting these children, Mosses tells chilling stories of supernatural entities taking drastic measures to ensure that their presence is felt.
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Sarah Harrington- All the 7s
What if your nightmares didn't end when you awaken in the half-light of the dawn? What if your dreams predicted something terrible on the slowly advancing horizon? Our narrator is plagued by such dreams, and receives nightly visitations from a dark entity that has no intentions of leaving quietly. When the messages she receives in her dreams begin to seep into her waking life, she sets out to solve a lifelong mystery before it's too late.
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David Elliott- Night of the Octopoid
Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, the Weird Tales magazines of the 30s and classic pulp horror paperbacks, David Elliot's 'Night of the Octopoids' is a short and sweet novella of eldritch madness. When Steve and Lynn visit the idyllic Suffolk coast in search of a new spider species. Their getaway doesn't go as they expected, and they soon find themselves caught up in a bloody web of supernatural horror beyond their most bizarre and terrifying nightmares.
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