Plank Children by Michael Schutz

Plank Children is such a fantastic and horrifying reading experience. In it, Miles lost his nephew in a car accident last year. Yet somehow he saw an updated photo of him on Facebook. Confused, he sets out to investigate and is then thrown into a world of madness and evil children.

Schutz is a master at building tension and delivering the creepiness. Plank Children reminds me of movies taking place in old and haunted asylums or boardinghouses. The atmosphere is dark, a whirlwind of dread and horror, the characters fully realized. It’s a labyrinthine nightmare of horrors that will not disappoint. I had a lot of fun reading Plank Children and highly recommend it.

Before He Wakes by Mark Allan Gunnells

This one is a mail bitter! The tension does not end through out the entire story. There’s so many great things happening here in Before He Wakes. The characters are well-fleshed out, especially Patrick, our hero. There’s a lot of detail here within this character that could be argued as unnecessary, but this isn’t a bad thing. These time details only enhance the story and make it what it is.

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