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“The truth is powerless against the media.”

Strange Buildings: The Chilling Japanese Mystery Sensation by Uketsu; translated by Jim Rion

August 1, 2026 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

After the events in Strange Houses, a writer fascinated by the occult is bombarded with letters from people with tales of mysterious architecture in their own lives. He picks eleven to investigate, little knowing these eleven are strangely intertwined. Odd layouts, useless hallways, apartments with no escape: all leading to an underlying mystery and a revelation so horrifying you won’t want to acknowledge it. People are often irrational. They make stupid decisions for the sake of unquestioned beliefs, particularly where religion is concerned. This was […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery Tagged With: horror, Japanese mystery, religious cults are bad, Uketsu; translated by Jim Rion

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:37 · Genres: Horror, Mystery · Tags: horror, Japanese mystery, religious cults are bad, Uketsu; translated by Jim Rion ·
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Only Mostly Dead

Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace

May 2, 2022 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

I read Kali Wallace’s Dead Space last year and really liked it, so I picked this one out from the library without even reading the blurb. It was completely unexpected (no space!), but I liked this one too. Breezy was a pretty typical teenage (16/17) girl, dealing with high school, sisters, and a best friend who isn’t all that nice to her (why do we all fall for that at that age?). Then, all of a sudden, she wakes up in a shallow grave a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Kali Wallace, monsters are people too, religious cults are bad, undead teen heroine

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Kali Wallace, monsters are people too, religious cults are bad, undead teen heroine ·
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