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Psychonaut Cover Reveal
March 12, 2019 is the release date for the new Vamptasy relaunch of my novel Psychonaut. I could not be more excited. Of all my books...
carmillavoiez
Feb 15, 20197 min read
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Women in Horror Month
February is Women in Horror Month. In fact February 2019 is the tenth Women in Horror Month or WiHMX. Ten years! How did it start? Why is...
carmillavoiez
Feb 6, 20192 min read
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Exquisite Corpse, Poppy Z Brite - a review
This book is hardcore in terms of violence and lust. The only comparable books I have read, ones as graphic and disturbing with vivid...
carmillavoiez
Feb 2, 20192 min read
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Claire Marta, From Ashes and Embers - cover reveal
From Ashes & Embers Ceasefire series book 3 She's forbidden. Temptation personified in a curvy package of sugar and sin. My one job...
carmillavoiez
Jan 30, 20191 min read
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Another Beautiful Nightmare - New Release - WIHM
Another Beautiful Nightmare is a Vamptasy anthology, following on from the success of Beautiful Nightmares. The book is due for release...
carmillavoiez
Jan 23, 20195 min read
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LGBTQ Themes in Horror
(First published on Gingernuts of Horror) Perhaps because I spent my formative years reading books by Clive Barker and Poppy Z Brite, I...
carmillavoiez
Jan 10, 20192 min read
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Go Indie Now interview with Carmilla Voiez
#Interview #Horror #Starblood
carmillavoiez
Nov 2, 20181 min read
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Pumpkin Lanterns - a short story for Halloween
CW: Psychosis Mandy screwed the lid back onto her mascara wand and placed it in her velvet wash bag. Without looking away from the...
carmillavoiez
Oct 31, 20187 min read
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The Book of the Damned, Tanith Lee – a review
The three stories in this book are set in the town of Paradys (Paradis) in Northern France over a time period that spans from the Middle...
carmillavoiez
Oct 19, 20182 min read
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Horror as a Comfort Blanket
Horror is supposed to make you uncomfortable. Claiming the genre as a comfort blanket is counter-intuitive, is it not? We are pummelled...
carmillavoiez
Oct 12, 20182 min read
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Book Release - Insane, by H.G. Lynch
Something evil is going on in the Montgomery Psychiatric Hospital; every time there is an unexplainable blackout, a patient dies. Callie...
carmillavoiez
Sep 27, 20182 min read
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Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe, Thomas Ligotti - a review
If you are intrigued with the strange and dark worlds of Lovecraft, but cannot stomach the overt racism and misogyny the you might want...
carmillavoiez
Sep 22, 20182 min read
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Vastarien, Vol 1 - Issue 1, Grimscribe Press - a review
Wow! Just wow! This is a collection of short stories and academic essays inspired by the writings of Thomas Ligotti and pessimistic...
carmillavoiez
Aug 27, 20181 min read
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The Ruins, by Simon Smith - a review
“The Ruins” is the story of a group of Europeans who arrive in a hostile alien environment where the rules are very different and...
carmillavoiez
Aug 26, 20182 min read
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Banquet for the Damned, Adam Nevill - a review
There are two aspects of Adam Nevill’s stories that I love, and “Banquet for the Damned” has both – his preoccupation with the occult...
carmillavoiez
Jul 30, 20181 min read
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The Elementals, Michael McDowell - a review
I’m ashamed to admit that this was the first book by Michael McDowell that I’ve read. I asked friends and followers on Facebook to make...
carmillavoiez
Jul 1, 20181 min read
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Incarnate, Ramsey Campbell - a review
Ramsey Campbell wrote the first horror novel that I fell in love with. I was a teenager when I first read that one and it stayed with me....
carmillavoiez
Apr 21, 20182 min read
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This Month's Netflix Finds
For a Kafkaesque bizarre farce you can't get much sillier than "The Similars" or "Los Parecidos" a Mexican horror. That said, in spite of...
carmillavoiez
Mar 20, 20181 min read
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The Willow Tree, by Bekki Pate - a review
It’s a fascinating book, although I suspect I know barely a fraction of what the story is about at the end of part one of the trilogy....
carmillavoiez
Dec 26, 20172 min read
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The Twenty Days of Turin, by Giorgio de Maria - a review
Originally published in the 1970s and recently translated into English, Giorgio de Maria’s short novel “The Twenty Days of Turin” is...
carmillavoiez
Dec 21, 20173 min read
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