Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill - a review and short story
I wrote a short story for my Creative Writing course twelve years ago with the same name and a friend asked me if I had read this book....
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carmillavoiez
Jun 20, 20191 min read
Pariah preview
#amwriting Pariah, book five in the Starblood series. This is the first draft. I only started writing the novel this morning, and chances...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 18, 20193 min read
The Starblood Series - update
A lot is happening in the world of the Starblood series. I have just received the paperbook wrap from Vamptasy for book three. Book four...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 15, 20191 min read
The Face That Must Die, Ramsey Campbell - a review
Fiction rarely disturbs me these days, but this book does. In fact it's in my top four of disturbing reads along with "In the Miso Soup",...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 12, 20192 min read
Roma Gray, The Hunted Tribe - TBM
The War has Begun... Deep in the North American forests lurks an animal spirit known as the Grishla. The Grishla is so ancient it...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 7, 20196 min read
Black Sun - out June 11
Black Sun Welcome to the Starblood series where Star, Satori, Donna, Freya and Raven co-exist with magic and demons. The third book...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 4, 20191 min read
Ribbons and Black Sun
Over the next few weeks I shall be preparing the manuscript for Ribbons so that I can forward it to my wonderful editor. I'm unlikely to...
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carmillavoiez
May 29, 20192 min read
Short Stuff
On June 30th Trembling With Fear & The Horror Tree will be publishing my Drabble “Missing”. I will of course post links when they go...
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carmillavoiez
May 27, 20191 min read
Horror Weekend 2019
I am organising a Facebook based Horror event on the weekend of 12 – 13 October, in collaboration with The Bold Mom horror experts. The...
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carmillavoiez
May 24, 20191 min read
Dig Two Graves, Horror Anthology - blog tour
COMING OUT ON JUNE 15th Have you ever wished you could get revenge on someone, but the idea of prison or bloodstains on your clothes made...
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carmillavoiez
May 21, 201918 min read
Birthday Treats
When I started my first full-time job it was the tradition that the birthday boy or girl would bring in cakes for the rest of the office....
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carmillavoiez
May 14, 20192 min read
My Work is Not Yet Done, Thomas Ligotti - a review
“My Work is Not Yet Done” is a collection of one novella and two short stories set in hellish corporate worlds. Ligotti is a bleak writer...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 19, 20192 min read
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson - a review
Although this book was first published in 1962, the idea of two young women protecting each other to the extent of letting others die to...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 11, 20192 min read
Dona Fox, Women in Horror, blog hop
Claustrophobic, disturbing, and creepy. A lost girl is kidnapped and held for years by a dangerous man. Her doll takes the brunt of his...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 11, 20192 min read
Us - movie review
Well I wasn't expecting that! Jordan Peele's "Us" is a superb, violent and frightening film that is highly intelligent, in the tradition...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 11, 20195 min read
Psychonaut Release Day
Psychonaut is the second book in Carmilla Voiez’s Starblood series. It’s a relaunch of the novel by American indie Vamptasy Publishing....
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carmillavoiez
Mar 5, 20193 min read
The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay – a review
“Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.” Briefly, a family of city-dwellers...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 28, 20191 min read
Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - Blood Moon
This is my favourite story in the anthology so far. Marlow’s prose is beautiful and sensual. We experience the suffering of Libby, our...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 27, 20191 min read
Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews - A Mother's Instinct
This anthology came out at the start of February and I am reviewing each of the short stories in turn (excluding my own of course). A...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 20, 20191 min read
Another Beautiful Nightmare - reviews, A Bloody Beginning
The second story in the anthology is "A Bloody Beginning" by Laurencia Hoffman. It's a companion short featuring Melina, a vampire whose...
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