Below you will find a list of 31 Anthology & Short Story Collection books to sink your blades into each spooky season. Adult, middle grade, young adult, this one’s all about the short stories that give you the creeps. There’s something for everyone to help get them into the holiday spirit. If you checked out my […]
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Review: Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell
Synopsis In this queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne classic gothic story, Rappaccini’s Daughter, a young woman is lured to a lush estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets. Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, […]
31 Halloween Reads for Spooky Season
Below you will find a list of 31 Halloween themed books to sink your fangs into each spooky season. From short story collections to novellas and novels, there’s something for everyone to help get them into the holiday spirit. Adult, middle grade, young adult, classics, this list has it all…but with the nature of the […]
Review: The Feeding by Anthony Ryan
Synopsis With echoes of The Road, New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan’s The Feeding is a brilliant postapocalyptic novel that is perfect for fans of Justin Cronin, M. R. Carey, and Alexis Henderson. Fifteen years ago the feeders rose from the shadows to transform the world into a graveyard. The few survivors exist in fortified settlements surrounded by the […]
Review: Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Synopsis Read it before you see it! Now a major motion picture from the teams behind Smile and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost […]
Review: Night of the Jack-O’-Lantern by E. Reyes
Synopsis In Twilight Falls, Halloween has always been a night of tricks, treats… and old stories meant to scare the kids. But this year, the legend is real. It’s 1998. Julie Carpenter is just trying to survive her senior year in the sleepy Arizona town she’s always called home. But when a figure emerges from […]
RELEASE DAY: THE RACK II: Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks
THE RACK II: Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks Title: The Rack IISeries: Stories Inspired By Vintage Horror PaperbacksEdited by: Tom DeadyCover Artist: Lynne HansenRelease Date: October 14th, 2025Order: Out Now! The Rack II The Rack II: Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks is the second anthology in The Rack series from Greymore Publishing and will be available Oct. […]
FINAL DAY Preorder and Blurbs: Tales From Cemetery
Publisher: BestGhost BooksCover artist: Matt Seff Barnes | https://www.mattseffbarnes.com/Editor: Ed Crocker | https://www.ed-crocker.com/services-8Release date: October 7th 2025Preorder Link: https://books2read.com/u/br8AgE Over the last 10 days I have been sharing mini-blurbs for the 10 new short stories that will release in Tales From Cemetery. I have gathered them here, so that they will have a single place to remain, and to […]
Review: Blood Ocean by Jonathan Tripp
Synopsis A ravenous rogue shark tears through the sea water. It attacks anything that moves and has a taste for human flesh. There is terror lurking in the Blood Ocean! “Gonna wind up like the f*ckin’ Kitner boy” Review Grabbed this for $1 on kindle. I’m always down to check out a shark horror. This […]
Review: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
Synopsis Brimming with dark humor, violence, and mystery, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a blood-soaked slasher sure to keep readers guessing until the very last page. Rose DuBois is not your average final girl. Rose is in her late 70s, living out her golden years at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home. When one of her […]
Review: Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within by Josh Malerman
Synopsis From the bestselling author of Bird Box and Incidents Around the House, an impassioned book about a night that changed the author’s life and put into perspective the writing life—and how you too can be inspired to face the fears that might hold you back from doing your best work “A fun, modern take on Stephen King’s On Writing . […]
Review: Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby
Synopsis A gothic feminist body horror in two timelines revolving around three Anatomical Venuses—ultrarealistic wax figures of women—that come to life at night to murder men who have wronged them. Seoul, present day. Antiques dealer Alys’s task is nearly complete. She has at last secured Elizabeth, the final anatomical Venus in a dangerously intertwined trio. Crafted […]