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    This is the second volume of John Pelan’s The Century’s Best Horror Fiction covering the years 1951 to 2000.

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    It has been 20 years since the publication of Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize Winning first novel, The God of Small Things.

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    One of the worst possible experiences in wartime is being captured and becoming a prisoner of war (POW).

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    “‘Why am I here?’ he keeps asking, up until his inevitable execution at which point his keeper finally answers: No more questions.’

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    “Brown provides an exemplary piece of history, thoroughly researched and presented as a coherent, compelling story.”

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    Auschwitz, Buckenwald, Bergen-Belsen: the names are familiar to readers who have taken an interest in the German concentration camps that operated from the mid-1930s until 1945, when Russian soldie

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    It is always a pleasure to read and review a publication that deserves one’s endorsement. This volume has a lot going for it that will be referenced below.

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    “One story that is far from convincing, showing not much of story’s fabled power at all.”

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    “This is history, through the glass darkly, with all the attendant perils of the great darkness that was the Holocaust in Poland, both during and after the Second World War and in the decades of co

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    The following words constitute a review of the new novel Welcome to Night Vale. The review is not about Welcome to Night Vale. It is totally about it and is for your enjoyment.

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    Ian Rankin is best known and often lauded for his Rebus series of crime fiction novels set in Edinburgh. He’s written relatively few standalones to date.

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    “Funny in a distinctly deadpan way. . . . the perfect book for anyone who cares about words and the many ways to have fun with them.”

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    “Walton has a knack for presenting unexpected and very human glimpses of both historical and fictional figures, and her delight with the city of Florence may inspire many to visit.”

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    Claire McMullen, a thirty-something single woman in Portland, Maine, is perfectly normal and ordinary―except for her long, curly, flaming red hair.

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    “Great storytellers do more than entertain. They educate, they provoke, and they challenge our preconceived notions. Stephen King is Exhibit A.”

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    Vampires are hot. Looking at recent incarnations of them in movies or on television might lead a reader to think this was a new craze. Not true.

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    When Andrew Michael Hurley’s debut novel, The Loney, was first published in 2014 by the British publisher Tartarus Press (in a highly-limited 300-copy print run), it quickly turned heads a

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    “DeLillo’s genius, brilliance, and madness is nothing short of amazing . . .”

    Zero K is one of those books you finish, pause, and think, “Wow!”

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    “one comes away with a sense of futility and a loss of sleep from reading on to the bitter end.”

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