Synopsis Maverick Hall has spent years trying to forget the chilling events of his thirteenth birthday in the summer of 1999. That fateful night, he and his best friends ventured through a seemingly innocuous tunnel on their bikes — a journey from which not all of them returned. Now, as an adult, Maverick is haunted […]
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Review: A Decade of Death and Decisions by Drew Hayes
Synopsis In October of 2013, Drew Hayes began posting a story to his website. Written over the 13 days leading up to Halloween, when each chapter ended the next step was chosen by the readers. Sometimes this led to great discoveries and triumphs, other paths led to Dead Ends, though even in those there was […]
Review: Mad Days: Stories and Curses by Elford Alley
Synopsis Welcome to Mad Days! A vanishing town. A cursed cemetery. A treasure hunt on Earth’s last day. Mad Days features 38 illustrated stories, including 19 drabbles and 3 terrifying novelettes. Alley’s latest collection takes you on a tour of rural wastelands throughout Texasand Oklahoma. There are ghosts here. There are monsters too. All manner […]
Review: The House on Moon Creek Avenue by E. Reyes
Synopsis “A haunted house story that will give you The Conjuring vibes.”—Kasha’s Book Sematary Fleeing an abusive boyfriend, Cindy moves into her late grandmother’s creepy old house with her young daughter. At first, the home is comfortable and nostalgic. But soon, ghosts randomly appear day and night, doors open and close, a streak of bad luck begins, […]
Review: Stinetinglers 4 by R.L. Stine
Synopsis Get ready for Halloween with ten new stories from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine that are sure to leave you shivering. From R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes three chilling novellas, all set in the small town of Hollow Hills. Tony has a love of old comics… but when he goes […]
Review: The Long Low Whistle by Laurel Hightower
Synopsis The sound of the whistle that split Patricia’s life in two still haunts her two decades later, its echoes leaving their indelible stamp on everything she does. The rift caused by her father’s unsolved death haunts her, pushing her to ever more dangerous attempts to put his memory to rest. Breaking into mausoleums in […]
Review: The Girl in White by Lindsay Currie
Synopsis For fans of Small Spaces and the Goosebumps series by R.L Stine comes a chilling story about a twelve-year old girl who must face down the most notorious ghost in her haunted East coast town to stop a centuries-old curse that threatens to destroy everything, from the New York Times bestselling author of Scritch Scratch and The Mystery of Locked Rooms. Mallory hasn’t […]
Review: They Lurk by Ronald Malfi
Synopsis From the bestselling author of Come with Me, five collected novellas from the master of terror, featuring possession, parasites and something monstrous lurking outside… COME CLOSER… Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the “modern-day Algernon Blackwood”. SkullbellyAfter three teenagers disappear in a forest, a private detective is hired and uncovers a terrible local […]
31 Anthology Reads for Spooky Season
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 […]
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 […]