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Portrait of Decay, J.R. Blanes

Reveling in occult rituals gone wrong, body horror, and the creeping dread of the Southern Gothic, Portraits of Decay paints an enthralling tableau of obsession, revenge, and a thirst for control that asks the question: why ruin a painting when you can ruin a soul? Up-and-coming young artist Jefferson Fontenot has everything going for him: The hot New Orleans art scene has noticed him, and he's finally found his true love, Nevaeh Parker. But Fontenot's bright future hides a darkness known as Gemma Landry-the artist's lover …

The Heart of the Troll, Ima Dimitrova

In a world where science is the new religion and health is a monopoly, only the obedient survive. After climate disasters and a global health collapse, salvation comes with the “Pharma Care” reform: genetic edits, monthly boosters, and mandatory screenings — all tracked through a health file implanted in every citizen’s hand. Comply — you stay in the city. Refuse — you become a renegade. Ernest Goodman tries to follow the rules — until his time starts running out. Divorced and stuck in his mother’s basement, he works as a paid troll…

Howl, An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror

Thanks to Netgalley and Black Spot book for the Advance Reader Copy. It was a great pleasure to read this awesome anthology.    Howl is a darkly beautiful and feminist anthology of short stories and poetry starring female werewolves and animalistic wolfish instinct. "We fear her because we are her: the feral, the wild, the mad." It is a collection of beautiful and most of the time, difficult stories of women werewolves, from a transition due to violence, to a mean to escape, the stories show the hard truce of how hard it is to be a woman…

Grace, by A.M Shine

Thank you to NetGalley and Aria & Aries | Aries for providing me with the ARC. I really liked this book. I found the lore building a bit on the lighter side and I definitely came for this so this part is a bit of a put off for me. But the plot is excellent and I loved how A.M Shine developed their characters with so much depth.  This story goes from an usual inheritance received in a creepy hometown with weird past and lore to a dark mysterious tale of children snatched and creepy local population. Grace came back for the first time since s…