
I’m so pleased to be sharing the first of my posts in Spellbound Books’ SHOctober blog tour today. I’m reviewing The Nightmare with thanks to Zoe O’Farrell and the team at Spellbound Books for inviting me on the tour and for my copy of the book
Blurb:
๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ, ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง.
I set the table for you, come sit.
I hope you enjoy my humble fare, a selection of only the darkest of delights. But make sure and pull your chair in closer to the hearth for the night falls and the wind blows wild muffling the sound of approaching footsteps. Something comes, something creeps ever closer. A nightmare thing.
Enter a dark place between fact and fiction.
On a cold winterโs night whilst crossing the frost covered field to fetch water, a child hears a sound on the air, an infantโs cry. But no baby awaits her hurried progress.
A pensioner rapidly losing her memory exists in a twilight world where only a lost love can bridge the gap between past and present.
A young man at a boutique music festival discovers more than romance in the fading forest.
Something travels the cosmos, a creature of nightmare and terror. A veiled medium sits at a table in a Victorian parlour waiting.
Amongst the lamb, a wolf harvests souls in a bid for promotion.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ – ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ .๐. ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ง.
Review:
FB Hogan: The Nightmare
The Nightmare is a collection of short stories that will definitely prepare you for Halloween! The writing in each one is simply brilliant and I loved the way that Hogan built the creepy atmosphere that made me feel unsettled throughout each story.
What stood out for me in this collection is that although the stories are very creepy, many of them take place in every day situations that as readers we are able to relate to; for example, a music festival, an older lady in a domestic setting and a mother with a young child. The seemingly “normal” surroundings make the horror elements very effective.
As always with short story collections, there are stories that stand out for me more than others, however The Nightmare gives readers insight into Hogan’s writing style and I am encouraged to read more of her work in the future.
The Nightmare is available from Amazon.
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Thank you so much for taking part in the tour today and sharing this review x
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