Synopsis The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it’s a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is, each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. […]
Review: The Umbrella Academy 0: The Murder Magician by Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá
Synopsis A dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers, the seven members of the Umbrella Academy spent their childhoods fighting evil and honing their extraordinary gifts under the tutelage of their guardian and mentor, Dr. Reginald Hargreeves. Here is one story from their past where they learned a powerful lesson and fought a mysterious murderer […]
Review: Voidverse by Damien Ober
Synopsis Dune meets Wool in this high-octane quest through the void, where two eternal forces are about to collide in an epic showdown. A HALF-FORMED UNIVERSE.A POWERFUL ANOMALY.A POEM THAT IS PROPHECY. When the Sinker was a child, all she knew was violence. To survive, she fled into the Void—a seemingly infinite nothingness where people live on “rocks,” […]
Review: Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward
Synopsis Nowhere Burning is a harrowing tale of survival that places the dark fairy tale of Peter Pan and the ruthless dangers of Lord of the Flies into the unforgiving maw of the Colorado Rockies. “Gripping and beautiful, haunting and virtuously crafted…you won’t be able to stop reading.”—Virginia Feito, author of Victorian Psycho Secrets in the flames. Answers in the ashes. […]
WOMEN in Horror Book Recommendations
As this is Women in Horror month (March) I wanted to offer up a list of my WiH book recommendations! No particular order, no rating specifics, just going off what I considered enjoyable. As always, each of these are things I think deserves to be read, and I will highlight both trad and indie releases. […]
Review: Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy
Synopsis On one day in 1989, 43 infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by billionaire industrialist Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who creates the Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. In their teenage years, though, the family fractures and […]
Review: Sentient (Ice Plague Wars 2) by Michael Nayak
Synopsis Extinction Horizon meets Contagion in this sequel to 2025’s sci-fi thriller Symbiote, where the biological threat has escaped the South Pole and is now wreaking havoc upon Antarctica. The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their lives… Months after the events of Symbiote, sunrise has come to the […]
CELEBRATING ONE YEAR with the Welcome to Cemetery sale
I’m so excited to officially announce the Welcome to Cemetery anniversary sale! It’s kind of hard for me to fathom that it’s been a year already somehow, but here we are. I wasn’t exactly sure how to celebrate my debut’s first book birthday, but offering up an Ebook sale seemed like a good place to start. […]
Review: Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
Synopsis Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher “I saw the devil in these woods.” Sonia Wilson is a talented scientific illustrator—but she is only able to follow her dream because of her father’s reputation as a renowned scientist. Such […]
Review: Doomed to Die: An A–Z of Death in Tolkien by Tom Racine
Synopsis J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings meets Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies in this darkly satirical illustrated parody of the Tolkien universe: ‘A is for Arwen broken by sorrows; B is for Boromir punctured by arrows. C is for Celebrimbor hung out to dry; D is for Denethor…’ ‘Stories – frankly, human stories are always about one thing […]
Review: Mother Dauber by K. Bengston
Synopsis From the author of ‘The Boatman’ comes a frightening and gruesome tale of disease, memory, and family. SOME MEMORIES ARE BURIED . . . OTHERS HATCH Delilah Jones, a recent ornithology graduate, returns to Clear Fork at the request of her uncle to take care of her dementia-riddled mother. It should have been a somber, […]
Review: A Colder Home by Jillian Maria
Synopsis Amateur cinematographer Cleo Moss hasn’t tried to make a film since her father’s death three years ago. Her cousin Noah, a director, is convinced that her latest script is the perfect opportunity to try again, but Cleo is less sure. Those reservations grow when a blizzard nearly runs them off the road on their […]