George Dunn

One actual bit of journalism completed. It’s about freezers.

Review: We Spread by Iain Reid | FanFiAddict Synopsis: Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the ...

A novel muted by design “We Spread,” by Iain Reid is not a book I felt the urge to hurl bodily into the nearest oxfam, but nor did it consume me in the way Reid’s best work has. I liked it well enough.

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Brian Raftery on “Hannibal Lecter: A Life”

Do you like Hannibal Lecter? If so, two things. a) treat yourself to “Hannibal Lecter: A Life,” by @brianraftery.bsky.social (PRONTO) out today and b) listen to my interview with this absolute scholar, wherever you get your podcasts.

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"A chilling, driftwood-etched reminder of our own mortality that will cling to you like salt water, and won’t be rinsed off easily." -- FanFiAddict

Pre-order @alexgrecian.bsky.social's supernatural thriller today: badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...

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Review: The Boatman by Alex Grecian | FanFiAddict Synopsis: HE WILL FOLLOW YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.Shortly after cruise ship the Maria Calypso embarks on its latest voyage, the passengers and crew noti ...

“The Boatman,” by @alexgrecian.bsky.social is a chilling, driftwood-etched reminder of our own mortality that will cling to you like salt water, and won’t be rinsed off easily. Out from @badhandbooks.bsky.social April 7th

REVIEW: First Date by Gemma Amor First Date is a tale of a first date gone horrifically wrong; its fast pace intensifying the usual uncompromising Amor experience.

🌹🩸 NEW REVIEW! 🩸🌹

First Date by @manylittlewords.bsky.social - @daturabooks.bsky.social

"The definitive (anti)dating tale about what it takes for someone to actually be real to another person, strapped to a grim conveyor belt of survival horror that I couldn’t stop reading even as I died inside."

Review: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer | FanFiAddict Synopsis: EXCITING OPPORTUNITY:Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY. Macy Mullins can’t say why the job p ...

In “The Caretaker,” by Marcus Kliewer even the spaces between each word feel hostile. Out in April.

Full review:
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Review: Daytide by Chris Panatier | FanFiAddict Daytide by Chris Panatier is a thought provoking, turpentine induced, rapture of a novel that carries you into a dark world filled with hope against all odd ...

Sometimes you read a book for which writing a review after almost causes you an aneurysm. @scribeofhades.bsky.social's upcoming #Daytide is one such offender but man am I glad I had the chance to have an early look!
What if Guillermo del Toro took on Punk Rock angels?
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Review: I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy | FanFiAddict Synopsis: There are locations in this world where the light doesn’t seem to reach. Where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too ...

“Whether handling haunted pornography, simply admiring the lunar eclipse- the first in 50 years, topping the charts in Liverpool 1957, or knocking them back in a doctors office, I would follow @natcassidy.bsky.social anywhere.

Not in a weird way.”

@shortwavebooks.bsky.social MAY 5TH

Review: Greedy by Callie Kazumi | FanFiAddict Synopsis: Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk.But just as he’s about to lose everything, he rec ...

“A real page-turner, “Greedy,” by @callieuntitled.bsky.social is exactly what I thought it would be. This is the sort of book you may try and pace yourself with, savour, but will end up demolishing standing at the kitchen counter.”

FEB 3rd- Bantam
FEB 5th- Century

You might have at least cropped out that AI watermark, no? this is at best lazy, come on.

I watched the video of today’s ICE execution - a terrible idea, don’t do it - and I find this level of state evil in America incomprehensible

I’m so sorry for my US friends who are seeing this happen to their county

The American govt is a rogue terrorist faction; the world must sanction it.

Review: Trad Wife by Sarah Langan | FanFiAddict Synopsis: Your favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . .Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the "trad wife" queen, on her idyllic 300-ac ...

“Intensely uncanny, white-knuckle tense, wholly unnerving, Trad Wife by Sarah Langan was one that I basked in the unremitting, methodic, apron-clad dread of. Ballerina farm meets “A King in Yellow,” meets Shirley Jackson.”

MAY 14TH- @torbooksuk.bsky.social

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Review: Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer | FanFiAddict Synopsis: Every #tradwife needs a baby. She’ll get one at any cost.When Camille Deming isn’t cooking, cleaning, or homesteading in her picture-perfect count ...

“Trad Wife,” by @saratogaishere.bsky.social is, beneath its sourdough crust and all that gingham, politically engaged, quite rightly enraged and genuinely highly entertaining and cathartic in its excess.

FEB 10th- @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social
FEB 19th- @bantambooksuk.bsky.social

Your nastiest in my humble opinion.

George and his niche possibly made up sub-genres Podcast Episode · The Terrorium · 13/01/2026 · 43m

If you liked those silly subgenres I made up, you can listen to my series wrap up below, or wherever else you get your podcasts.

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Review: Wretch by Eric LaRocca | FanFiAddict Synopsis: After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer ...

“A novel that cares not about being liked, but being felt, absorbed and endured, finished in a quiet state of ruin, “Wretch,” by @ericlarocca.bsky.social succeeds in all that it sets out to do, and for the record, I happened to like it too.”

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A curated grid of twelve book covers themed “Horrormance”—a blend of horror and romance. The top two rows feature visually cohesive gothic designs, including The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz, The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling, A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haar by David Sodergren, Sweetheart, Sweetheart by Bernard Taylor, Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas, and My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen. The third row, with Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Hungerstone by Kat Dunn, and Mestiza Blood by V. Castro, breaks the aesthetic pattern. Caption notes the genre mix and jokes about the visual shift. Instagram handle @georgesreads appears in the corner.

Instagram post from @claymcleod listing two horror book releases for August. First: Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman (Aug 11, Mira), a “horrormance” about love, possession, and a man back from the dead meeting a woman from somewhere worse. Second: Godfestation by Jendia Gammon (Aug 11, Sley House), a Southern Appalachian tale of grief and monstrous beings following Ivy Fernberg’s father’s death.

Horrormance! I can see that. I guess SF Specmance or Scimantasy?

Review: Fetty On The Switches by David Simmons | FanFiAddict Synopsis: Hallucinatory and darkly comic love stories are set against the gritty backdrop of the city, where guns and drugs collide with tales of paranoia, ...

A book that made my teeth itchy, my stomach turn, and my innards want to crawl out of my body, David Simmons’ “Fetty On The Switches,” is a damp, leaky, grubby, grimey and bizarre little number that I prodded, circled and then promptly fell headfirst into.
@clashbooks.bsky.social JUNE ‘26

George Dunn says you should read ACQUIRED TASTE. Read his Top Reads of 2025 over at FanFiAddict here: bit.ly/3L5SOCX

George Dunn's Top Reads of 2025 | FanFiAddict Agh, here we are again, hey? It’s that time of year where I am allowed, without judgment (thems the rules) to self-indulgently tell you all about my year, a ...

Massive thanks to the fantastic George Dunn, writing for FanFiAddict, for naming VEIL one of the Top Ten Books of the Year! fanfiaddict.com/george-dunns...

features books from:
@manylittlewords.bsky.social
@talkscaredpod.bsky.social
@nuzo.bsky.social
@rachelharrison.bsky.social
@natcassidy.bsky.social
@jonathanjanz.bsky.social
@dangitcat.bsky.social

and more

George Dunn's Top Reads of 2025 | FanFiAddict Agh, here we are again, hey? It’s that time of year where I am allowed, without judgment (thems the rules) to self-indulgently tell you all about my year, a ...

obligatory best of the year list for your perusal:

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This is an incredible review of SPREAD ME, both in that it is very kind to the book ("All in all, a deeply unwholesome way to spend an afternoon") and in that it is a STELLAR piece of writing - I will be repeating the phrase "four eyed, fork-tongued viral desert people-eater" to myself all day 😈

Thank you so much!

Review: Spread Me by Sarah Gailey | FanFiAddict Synopsis: Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. She loves the isolation and the way the desert keeps temptations from th ...

“Spread Me,” by @sarahgailey.bsky.social is a revolting delight of a story, a piece of defrosted John Carpenter turned Cronenbergian sleaze, with a cocked hip and a knowing look. Arresting, astounding..arrousing..?

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In search of the ghosts of Christmas past | The Observer Stories of spirits and ghouls were a fixture of winter long before Dickens. Now intrepid historians have taken it upon themselves to resurrect forgotten yarns

For the @theobserveruk.bsky.social I’ve written about Christmas ghost stories, the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series, and how literary detectives such as @johnnymains.co.uk are digging up lost tales.

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📚😱 INDIE PRESS HORROR BOOKS RELEASED THIS YEAR THAT ARE LEGALLY* REQUIRED READING 😱📚

*My post, my laws

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