Synopsis Following the death of her husband, Sandra Riley is left all but destitute: jobless, penniless and about to lose her home. But an encounter with an old university friend seems to offer a lifeline. Gerry McManus was always well-to-do; now he’s risen to join the landed gentry, as his wife Joy takes possession of […]
Fear For All
Review: The Murders at Camp Ketchum by E. Reyes
Synopsis TUCSON, ARIZONA — 1996 “Some places don’t stay closed…” Camp Ketchum has been shut down for a year. The gates are rusted. The cabins are rotting. The desert has almost swallowed it whole. Almost. Luna and her friends break in for one night of fun—beer, dares, and a thrill they won’t forget. The owner’s nephew […]
Review: The 31st Trick-or-Treater by Ben Farthing
Synopsis Thirty-one nights. Thirty-one chapters. One final nightmare. Last Halloween, thirty trick-or-treaters vanished into the night. This October, they’re coming back—one by one, each day of the month. But every child carries the same chilling warning: something is returning on the 31st. Bob has never stopped searching for his daughter. Now, as the shadows of […]
Review: A Halloween Story by Matt Micheli
It appears the separate stories are OOP, so I have linked the collection! Synopsis A Halloween Story takes you through 3 terrifying intertwining tales of chaos and bloodshed on Halloween Night as monsters, demons, and masked killers come alive in smalltown suburbia.Be careful who you open the door for. Some trick-or-treaters may want more than candy. […]
Review: Depth Charge by Tyler Jones
Synopsis: Art world darling Julian Le Sang paints with passion, with abandon, and with his own blood. Inside these blood paintings, Julian sees more than art… he sees the future. In fifth grade, Julian is bullied and alienated until Marcy befriends him and learns the strange boy’s dark secret: he sees visions of death in […]
Review: Wildwood by Laika Studios
Synopis After her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows, headstrong teenager Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) launches a desperate rescue mission into the Impassable Wilderness—an enchanted forest hidden just beyond Portland, Oregon. Joined by her hapless but loyal classmate Curtis Mehlberg (Jacob Tremblay), Prue navigates a world of talking animals, bandits, and […]
Review: The Spare by Annie Neugebauer
Synopsis: It’s not a sequel. It’s next in the sequence… Kasper is tired of these extended family reunions. No matter what she does, she’s always the odd one out. She’s used to feeling outnumbered, but on this remote camping trip, those numbers keep changing. Review: Annie Neugebauer’s “Outsiders Sequence,” is nothing short of existentially torturous, […]
Review: The Anguished Earth by Richard Swan
The atmosphere The Anguished Earth creates is top notch, melding the horror tinged, Dark Age setting with the backdrop of an active outbreak of a deadly disease. As you follow a state appointed Justice on the trail of escaped child murderer, you feel the unsettling sensation of darkness lurking in every corner.
Review: Devil’s Night: A Halloween Short Story by Richard Chizmar
Synopsis It all started on a wind-blown Friday night in October. It was the night before Halloween, the night we always called Wreck Night or Devil’s Night back when we were kids and Halloween was second in our hearts only to Christmas. At least the newspapers got that much right. The day, I mean. They […]
Review: Your Beloved Remains by Quinn Connor
Synopsis As fascination turns to obsession, two women drag each other into an academic horror of forgery, murder, and rage, destined to be devoured by readers of Plain Bad Heroines and If We Were Villains. Archivist Celia Kiel has spent her life on the remote campus of Basin College in the Southern Ozarks. Once a jewel of women’s […]
Review: Happy Hour (Killer VHS #9) by Gemma Amor
HAPPY HOUR is a fantastic novella, one that perfectly captures a hectic part of recent British history, invoking such a strong sense of nostalgia.
Review: The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler
Synopsis: The dice roll. Darkness answers. House of Leaves meets Jumanji in this brilliantly original and twisted novel composed entirely of found documents, following an unwitting couple ensnared by a sinister tabletop role-playing game Cole and Lorraine playtest board games for some extra cash as they save up to buy a home. But after a […]