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Eye of the Crow
I have never given much thought to Sherlock Holmes as a boy or spent any time pondering what Holmes must have been like as a ...
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Eye of the Crow
Shane Peacock
January 2015
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The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Anthony Horowitz
January 2015
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The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
December 2014
27
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The Copycat Murders
The entirety of Willie Meikle's "The Copycat Murders" is written like the climax of a much larger work. It is solid action fr...
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The Copycat Murders
William Meikle
December 2014
26
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Right to Life
Read as one of two novellas under the [b:Old Flames|2583591|Old Flames|Jack Ketchum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349128529s...
December 2014
25
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Moonbane
Al Sarrantonio's "Moonbane" is an entertaining Sci-fi / horror novella. If you are able to put critical thinking into autopil...
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Moonbane
Al Sarrantonio
December 2014
24
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The Concordances of the Red Serpent
In the last year and a half, I have read 14 books written by Willie Meikle. Not because Meikle is some literary genius, a mod...
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The Concordances of the Red Serpent
William Meikle
December 2014
14
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PORN: An Extreme Novel of Sex and Gore
A horror novella entitled "Porn"! What isn't to love?With the high ratings, though, I think I went in with exaggerated expect...
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PORN: An Extreme Novel of Sex and Gore
Matt Shaw
December 2014
10
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Crucifax
"Crucifax" is a 1980's Pied Piper story.I've read a few 1980's horror novels recently and have cringed slightly at how outdat...
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Crucifax
Ray Garton
December 2014
02
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Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes
I just finished reading the anthology Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes. Reviews of each story are below.As ...
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Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Charles Prepolec, Kim Newman, Kevin Cockle, Lawrence C. Connolly, Simon Clark, Paul Kane, William Meikle, Tom English, Christopher Fowler, J.R. Campbell
November 2014
27
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The Darlington Substitution (From The Deed Box of John H. Watson MD)
In "The Darlington Substitution", an artifact of some legend and the source of a long-lived family curse has gone missing. Ho...
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The Darlington Substitution (From The Deed Box of John H. Watson MD)
Hugh Ashton
November 2014
24
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Devils Of D Day
During the D-Day invasion at Normandy, Allied forces called on dark powers to engage the enemy. At the end of the war, one of...
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Devils Of D Day
Graham Masterton
November 2014
20
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Descendant
In "Descendant", Masterton draws on the Romanian folklore of the strigoi, the immortal vampires, to weave a tale that crosses...
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Descendant
Graham Masterton
November 2014
15
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Sherlock Holmes - The Stuff of Nightmares
If Arthur Conan Doyle had teamed up with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to write his Sherlock Holmes stories, I am sure the resul...
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Sherlock Holmes - The Stuff of Nightmares
James Lovegrove
November 2014
11
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Blackwater, Vol. 2: The War / The Fortune / Rain
I read each title of the Michael McDowell's Southern Gothic Blackwater series individually. There was not a weak point in the...
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Blackwater, Vol. 1: The Flood / The Levee / The House
I read each title of the Michael McDowell's Southern Gothic Blackwater series individually. There was not a weak point in the...
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Rain
"Rain" is the sixth and final book of Michael McDowell's Southern Gothic Blackwater series. "Rain" was a fitting finale to th...
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Rain
Michael McDowell
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