Synopsis From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead. Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for years, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he’s pressured by his […]
Review: I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Synopsis From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix. 1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with […]
Author Interview: Liz Kerin
Check out my interview with Liz Kerin, author of the Night’s Edge duology! I had the lovely opportunity to speak to Liz back in January of this year once I had read an advanced copy of First Light (shoutout to Tor Nightfire for getting that copy in my hands!). Our conversation veers off into spoiler […]
Review: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Synopsis In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who […]
Review: American Rapture by CJ Leede
Synopsis A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin. Review […]
Review: So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Synopsis A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep. Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn’t need a reminder she’s getting older, or that she’s feeling […]
Review: Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi
Synopsis Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon them in this horror masterpiece from the bestselling author of Come with Me. Maybe this is a ghost story… Andrew Larimer thought he left the past behind. But when he receives a late-night phone call from an […]
Review: Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman, Illustrations by Trevor Henderson
Synopsis After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-of-service payphone in hopes of talking out their grief and saying goodbye to loved ones, only for it to begin ringing on its own. As more townspeople answer the call, friends and family believed to have been […]
Review: youthjuice by E.K. Sathue
Synopsis American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possible—at a terrible cost—in this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture. From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE (hee-bee), a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo […]
Review: Brat by Gabriel Smith
Synopsis From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protagonist grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past We meet our ill-tempered protagonist—the story’s titular “brat”—at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. The Gabriel of the novel is mourning the death of his father […]
Review: The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls by Angela Sylvaine
Synopsis The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls is the debut short story collection from the author of FROST BITE and CHOPPING SPREE. The Dead Spot. A corner drenched in shadow. An earthquake’s epicenter. The part of a roller coaster ride where the car rounds the final curve and all force dissipates, leaving those trapped […]
Essays of a Recent Constant Reader: It (1986)
Nostalgia, much like the fragility of childhood memories, is a fickle thing . At an older age, we often look back on the days of our youth with mixed feelings. Sometimes we long for the simplicity of childhood, sometimes we cower in fear at the traumas of the past, and sometimes it’s a combination of the two. The act of remembering is a delicate […]